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2 unusual facts about Montenegrins


Ana Marija Marović

Her parents, Josip Marović and Marija Ivanović, were members of a Serbo-Montenegrin colony of Boka Kotorska (Montenegro) in Venice.

Music of Montenegro

Due to the country's turbulent history, filled with defensive wars and constant fighting for freedom, the development of culture, especially music, was a secondary interest for Montenegrins.


Baca Kurti Gjokaj

He mobilized not only the members of his clan, but also the members of other towns of Malësia, to fight against the Montenegrin army and to have the Montenegrins leave Albanian territory: all males from 7 to 70 years old, united, forced the Montenegrin forces to retire.

Battle of Lijevče Field

However, this only intensified the dissatisfaction of the Montenegrins who were forcefully mobilized and who did not want to fight for a Greater Serbia.

Black Jackets

Italians, Turks, Kurds, Albanians, Somalis, Serbs and Montenegrins, Mhalmites, Bosniaks, Russians (ethnic Russians as well as Chechens, Russian Jews and German Russians), Eritreans, Greeks, Afghans and Moroccans have all significantly contributed to the membership in Germany.

Culture of Montenegro

The traditional dance of Montenegrins (and Herzegovinian Serbs) is called the Oro, Dinaric-Serbian venacular for Orao or "Eagle" - it also known as the Crmnički Oro - due to its believed origin in the Crmnica region.

Football in Montenegro

Famous Montenegrins who played for the Yugoslav and Serbia and Montenegro team included Dragoljub Brnović, Dejan Savićević Milos Zaravic and Predrag Mijatović.

Montenegrin

Montenegrin language, a modern Slavic language spoken by ethnic Montenegrins

Montenegrin Orthodox Church

Construction of the first MOC shrine abroad, the Holy Church of Righteous Ivan Crnojević, is planned to take place in Lovćenac, Vojvodina, Serbia, with the help of the Association of Ethnic Montenegrins in Serbia Krstaš.

Montenegrins in Albania

Montenegrins are mainly located in the northern districts of Malësi e Madhe and Shkodër.

Novak Kilibarda

Forming close relations with academician Jevrem Brković and his Doclean Academy of Sciences and Arts, he attained a view that Montenegrins are a unique nation and not Serbs.

OFK Grbalj

The second round draw was not so favorable for the Montenegrins, facing them off against an ambitious Sivasspor of Turkey, yet it was in these two games that the motivated Grbalj side produced the most breathtaking displays of football.

Serbs of Montenegro

The Montenegrin cap is a traditional hat for ethnic Serbs in Montenegro and in later times the self identifying Montenegrins, originally in the shape of a flat cylinder, having a red upper surface (called tepeluk) not dissimilar to the Herzegovina and Lika caps.

The Death of Smail-aga Čengić

It is based on the real events of Smail-aga Čengić, an Ottoman army general (aga) who is famous for his bravery, but disparaged for his truculence; the main motif is his death, happening after he engages in a battle against the Herzegovinian Montenegrins.


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