Stari Bar (Cyrillic: Стари Бар, Albanian: Tivar i Vjetër; lit.

It is located inland, a few miles from the new city of Bar, resting on Londša hill, at the foot of Mount Rumija.

[citation needed] In the Early Middle Ages, Antivari (Latin: Antibarium) remained a subject of the Byzantine Empire, as part of the Theme of Dyrrhacium.

On 5 January 1878, the Montenegrins detonated a 225 kg explosive inside the Bar Aqueduct which cut off the town's water supply.

The Bar peninsula and the town were awarded to the newly recognized Principality of Montenegro at the Congress of Berlin (1878).