Fort Trašte (Montenegrin: Tvrđava Trašte/Тврђава Траште, German: Werk Traste) is a fortification built by the Austro-Hungarian Empire near Tivat in Montenegro.
The main road through the region, now the Adriatic Highway, was of vital strategic importance to the Austro-Hungarians as it connected their southernmost possessions – Budva and the surrounding area – with the naval base at Kotor and the port at Tivat.
[2] Montenegro's 1905 acquisition of powerful new long-ranged artillery guns, which put the entire coastal strip within range of shellfire, made the existing fortifications obsolete.
The two were originally surrounded by a permanent layer of barbed wire defences and are linked by a postern tunnel, allowing troops to pass between them without being exposed to enemy fire.
[2] It is located in heavily vegetated terrain and can be reached by following a rough track for about 650 m (2,130 ft) from the paved road between the villages of Leševiči and Bigovo.
[7] Only two years after Fort Trašte was completed in 1909, proposals were advanced that it should be demolished and a new and even stronger fortress should be built on the Lustiča peninsula a few kilometers to the north.
[8] After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of the First World War, the fort was abandoned and the territory it controlled became part of the newly established state of Yugoslavia.