or Bar, a strongly fortified town and harbour in the Gulf of Venice, in the Turkish pachalic of Iscander or Scutari. It is a frontier town, the seat of a Catholic bishop, and contains 3500 inhabitants, who are owners of several vessels, which are hired for the coasting trade of the Adriatic Sea. It is in lat. 42. 25. N. and long. 18. 54. E.