Godinje is a village in Montenegro

Montenegro

Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...

, in the municipality of Bar

Bar, Montenegro

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. It is located on a hill overlooking Lake Skadar. The town belongs to the Boljević pleme of the Crmnička nahija

Crmnica

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. The town is the ancestral home of the Lekovići and Nikač clans. In 1977, a resident of Godinje would still say, more than half-seriously, "In Godinje, everyone's surname is Leković" , a reminder of a time when family clans lived in mountainous isolation in Montenegro.

Ancestral Homes

• Central: Lekovići (45 houses)
• East: Perazići (19 houses)
• West: Velovići (4 houses)
• West: Nikači (17 houses).