Po redaktohet Risan (paragraf)

== History ==
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[[File:Risan-Montenegro.RomanMosaics.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Roman mosaics in Risan]]
The earliest mention of [[Rhizon]] dates back to the 4th century BC, as the main fortress in the [[Illyria]]n state where [[Queen Teuta]] took refuge during the [[Illyrian Wars]]. The degree of [[Hellenization]] at Rhizon was very high.<ref>Épire, Illyrie, Macédoine: mélanges offerts au professeur Pierre Cabanes by Danièle Berranger, Pierre Cabanes, Danièle Berranger-Auserve, page 130</ref>{{quote needed|date=July 2015}} In [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] times, [[Rhizinium]] is documented as an ''oppidum civium Romanorum'', and the most prosperous time for Roman ''Rhizinium'' came during the 1st and 2nd centuries, when huge villas were made in the area and the city had 10,000 inhabitants. Five mosaics are the most valuable remains of that period - not only for Risan but also for [[Montenegro]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://montenegrina.net/nauka/arheologija/rimski-mozaici-iz-risna/|title=Rimski mozaici iz Risna – Montenegrina.net {{!}} Kultura, umjetnost i nasljeđe Crne Gore. Culture, Arts & Heritage of Montenegro.|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-20}}</ref>
 
Circa 500 it became the see of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Risano]]. The invasions of the [[Pannonian Avars|Avars]] and [[Slavs]] left the city deserted. The last reference of a Roman [[bishop]] in Risan dates back to 595.

In the 10th century, the [[Byzantine emperor]] [[Constantine Porphyrogenitus]] includes Risan among the inhabited towns of [[Travunia]], while the priest of [[Duklja|Doclea]] considers Rissena to be a district.

During the [[Middle Ages]], Risan lost the significance it used to have in the ancient times. No later than the 13th century, the Italians provided the bulk of a henceforward unbroken series of Latin Catholic Bishops of Risano until its suppression circa 1630. 
 
In the mid-15th century, Risan was referred to as a town of [[Herceg Stjepan]]. In 1466, the [[Republic of Venice|Venetians]] offered to give [[Brač]] island and a palace in [[Split (city)|Split]] to Herceg Stjepan, in exchange for his two towns (Risan and Novi) in the [[Boka Kotorska]].
In 1482, the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]] took Risan, together with [[Herceg Novi]], from Herceg Stjepan's son Vlatko, using it as a base for its corsairs to pirate Venetian shipping sailing from their nearby holdings of [[Cattaro]] and [[Perasto]].

Only in 1688 Risan became [[Republic of Venice|Venetian]] as part of the [[Albania Veneta]] with the Venetian name of ''Risano'', enjoying a temporary economic growth. In the following centuries Risan has had the same fate as the whole of [[Dalmatia]]. It was for a few years during [[World War II]] part of the [[Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)|Kingdom of Italy]] in the Italian [[Governatorate of Dalmatia]] and actually it is part of the newly independent [[Montenegro]].

According to the 1627 population census, Risan had 800 citizens. 570 were Muslim, 150 Orthodox and 80 Catholic.