MONTENEGRO STATE

Montenegro state has been selected by Roberto Amati in relation to the real history of european integration, then enlisted in the EUROPEAN STATES category, accompanied by own fact SHEET useful to the comprehension, completed of historical MAPS AND IMAGES or with a direct linking to the related Blog contents dedicated to the entire history of european integration and the future of Europe.

Montenegro is an aeternitas of the history of european integration that will have influence on the future of Europe. The name given by the inhabitants is CRNA GORA with the official national language of Serbo-Croatian (belonging to the group of Slavic family) spoken by the citizens who today live in the parlamentary Republic of North Montenegro, together with the minorities of Albanians speaking Albanian.

North Montenegro is situated in southern Europe in the central part of the Dinaric Alps: it overlook westward on the Adriatic sea and confines on North with Bosnia, at West with Serbia and on South with Albania. Its territory is mostly mountainous around the high Mount Lovcen, overwhelming the Bay of Kotor with its charactetic bays and beaches, and karst in the middle where once existed the black forests that gave name to the country. The climate is typically mediterranean on the coasts while it becomes continental going towards the internal area.

The history of Montenegro started with the first settlements of Illyrians (as you can read in this article) who had been followed along the ancient times by the Albi Gens and the Ghegs tribes of Albanians. They lived free until in I century BC when Romans conquered the region: within the reform of Augustus (see Roman Empire), Montenegro was included into the Dalmatia province that with the reform of Constantine I (see Christian Empire) became part of the Illyricum diocesi. At the falling of Western Roman Empire, Montenegro remained within the Byzantine Empire posessions, inserted into the Dalmatia theme as part of the Illyricum diocesi.

Thing changed with the invasion of Slavs in VII century AD: hosted into the Byzantine Empire in the region that became the Principality of Montenegro in 1016 AD, it was annexed to the Kingdom Serbia from 1162 to 1418 AD then to the Republic of Venice until 1791 AD when Montenegro was conquered by Turks. At the end of the balcanic independence wars it was included into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croatians and Slovenians ruled by the Karageorgevic dinasty except for the epoch 1910-1918 AD when Nikla I Petrovic proclamed the Kingdom of Montenegro, that was restored during the Second World War when occupied by Italian troops and personally ruled by the King Vittorio Emanuele III of the Savoia dinasty. From 1945 AD Montenegro has been part of the federal Republic of Yugoslavia, became Republic of Serbia-Montenegro at the end of its dissolution process.

Finally, Montenegro got independent in 2006 AD with capital in Podgorica.

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