FK Arsenal Tivat

FK Arsenal is a Montenegrin football club founded in 1914. and based in the town of Tivat. Currently, it is competing in Montenegrin Second League. For the second consecutive year it is the champion of the oldest cup in ex-Yugoslavia, Nikša Bućin Cup. The best league achievements are the champion title of Montenegro (former Zeta Banovina in 1935/36 season) and 5th place in the Montenegrin Second League in 2006/07 season.

Players

Current squad

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References

Tivat

Tivat (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Тиват, pronounced [tîv̞at], Italian: Teodo) is a coastal town in southwest Montenegro, located in the Bay of Kotor. As of 2011, its population was 14,111. Tivat is the centre of Tivat Municipality, which is the smallest municipality by area in Montenegro.

Name

In Serbian and Montenegrin the town is known as Tivat or Тиват; in Italian and Venetian as Teodo; the name of the city comes from Greek Θείοδος (Thiodhos meaning "way of God").

History

The name Tivat apparently goes back to the 3rd century BC. According to most sources, the name comes from the old Illyric queen Teute, who had a residence was in Risan and a summer residence between the church of St Roco in Donja Lastva and Seljanovo. The name could also come from the names of old Christian saints: Saint Theodulus, Theodocius or Theodotus. Besides the popular name Theudo, a Latin expression Latus Tiuveti comes from the 16th century. Finally, the name could originate from Celtic word "touto", town.

Tivat, the youngest town in the Boka area was established on the plateau at the bottom of Vrmac. According to the archives of Kotor (then called "Cattaro"), the following names were mentioned here in the 14th century: Teude, Theode, and Theudo who are related to the queen Teuta.