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unusual facts about Principality of Montenegro



Baca Kurti Gjokaj

When Prince Nicholas I of Montenegro and his army stepped foot on the Albanian land (which had been given to him by the Congress of Berlin) Baca Kurti heard gunshots from an extreme point in Malësia, and he and other men of Malësia organized a resistance against the Principality of Montenegro.

League of Prizren

The Albanians' fear that the lands they inhabited would be partitioned among Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece fueled the rise of resistance.

Sarajevo in Austria-Hungary

Among others, it stipulated the following points: full independence from the Ottoman Empire for the principalities of Serbia and Montenegro, de jure autonomy (de facto independence) within the Ottoman Empire for the Principality of Bulgaria, and the autonomous province status for the Bosnian Vilayet within the Ottoman Empire.


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