State
Montenegro
country in southeastern Europe
- This boundary
- 2006–1945
- Founded
- 2006
- Capital
- Podgorica
- Government
- republic
- Languages
- Montenegrin, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Albanian
- Preceded by
- Republic of MontenegroSerbia and Montenegro
Overview
Montenegro is a country in Southeast Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Its 25 municipalities have a total population of 633,158 people in an area of 13,883 km2 (5,360 sq mi). It is bordered by Serbia to the northeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Kosovo to the east, Albania to the southeast, and Croatia to the west, and has a coastline along the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. The capital and largest city is Podgorica, while Cetinje is the Old Royal Capital and cultural centre.
Before the arrival of the Slav peoples in the Balkans in the 6th and 7th centuries CE, the area now known as Montenegro was inhabited principally by people known as Illyrians.
Records (27)
- 1042 — Battle of BarBattle
- 1571 — Siege of UlcinjSiege
- 1687 — Siege of CastelnuovoSiege
- 1718 — Siege of UlcinjSiege
- 1785 — Scutari invasion of MontenegroInvasion
- 1796 — Battle of LopateBattle
- 1813–1814 — Siege of CattaroSiege
- 1836 — Battle of GrahovoBattle
- 1858 — Battle of GrahovacBattle
- 1858 — Battle of KolašinBattle
- 1861–1862 — Montenegrin–Ottoman War of 1861–62War
- 1876–1878 — Montenegrin–Ottoman War of 1876–78War
- 1876 — Battle of Vučji DoBattle
- 1876 — Battle of FundinaBattle
- 1879 — Battle of NovšićeBattle
- 1879 — Velika attacksBattle
- 1880 — Battle of UlcinjBattle
- 1880 — Battle of MurinoBattle
- 1913 — Plav-Gusinje massacres (1912-13)Massacre
- 1914 — Battle of AntivariNaval battle
- 1916 — Battle of MojkovacBattle
- 1916 — Battle of LovćenBattle
- 1924 — Šahovići massacreMassacre
- 1941 — Battle of PljevljaBattle
- 1943 — Beginning of the Battle of SutjeskaBattle
- 1944 — Cetinje massacreMassacre
- 1945 — Bar massacreMassacre
Facts from Wikidata (CC0), HCED (CC0) and Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0); overview excerpted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).