Potarje (Montenegrin and Serbian Cyrillic: Потарје) is a region in northern Montenegro.
In the time of the Cretan War (1645–69), Potarje and the neighbouring territories were in revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
[2] The Dobrilovina Monastery became the "centre of the spiritual and political life and aspirations for freedom in the wide area of Potarje",[3] after 1866, when archimandrite Mihailo Dožić-Medenica (1848-1914) was sent as an administrator.
[4][5] Dožić also having established a school that was operated secretly in the monastery, the first school in the valley of Tara — this was a very significant step towards national awakening in this region and surrounding regions.
[6] Dožić organized an insurgent battalion in the region,[7] active between 1875 and 1878 (during the Herzegovina Uprising (1875–78) and Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1876–78)).