Thursday, February 22, 2024

Montenegro

Montenegro is located in the Balkans along the Adriatic Sea.

The country is split into 23 municipalities, with the two urban centres, the former capital Cetinje and the current capital Podgorica.

There are two airports, the busiest is in the capital Podgorica, and the other is a smaller one in Tivat.

But if you come to this country via the sea, you can stop at the ma any marinas and sea ports, the busiest being the "port of bar", along the coast, there are small islands and islets, the biggest of which is Mamula island which has a small fortress on it, stadioti island which has a resort, and saint Nikola island off the coast of Budva. And the strange triangle-shaped Bojana island along the border with Albania. 

Interesting places to visit are the Mausoleum of njegoš, the Durđevića Tara Bridge (which is over the deepest canyon in Europe), The ruins of Doclea, the Sahat Kula Clock Tower, and the Millennium Bridge, St Stefan island (which is a famous island), the sipcanik wine cellar (which used to be a military base), the Kotor fortifications, the war memorial in Ulcinji, lots of monasteries like the Ostrog monetary (which is carved into a cliff).

The name Montenegro comes from the word in Venetian Italian called: "Black mountain", keep in mind they are a Slavic nation, not a Latin nation, they often call themselves: "Crna Gora" which translates to black forest.

The country is 80% mountains and hilly, and the Durmitor and the Bjelasica mountains are the main mountain ranges in Montenegro, between both mountains is the longest river the Tara River, the largest lake: "The Skadar Lake", shared with Albania, on the edge of the Zeta plane which is the flattest part of Montenegro, which the capital Podgorica is located.

There are many beaches along the south at Doni Stoj, which funnily enough stole names from other countries to boost tourism, like "Miami Beach, and Copacabana", the bay of Kotor which is comprised of three triangle-shaped marinas which played a huge role in the kingdom era of Montenegro. 

They have the largest species per area unit index at 0.8, which means it has the highest unit index in all of Europe, such species as fish, brown bears and amphibians.

Out of the 526 species of European birds, around 333 birds can be found in Montenegro alone. 

Most of their resources are actually imported from other countries, they don't really have agriculture, as they mainly rely on service, tourism and foreign investors as their form of revenue, they are ranked in the top ten as most foreign investors in Europe.

The food they enjoy: Kačamak, Raštan, Njeguški pršut and Rakijaw (alcohol).

They sleep a lot. They even have a "lazy" Olympics in Brezna.

The population is 630k people, and it is the least populated Balkan country, around 45% are Montenegrins, 29% are Serbian, 6% Bosnian, %5 Albanian, and 12% are other Europeans, Russians, and non-Europeans.

Even though they are not part of the EU they do use the Euro because it's easy to use, they use the C and F plug outlets and they drive on the right side of the road.

Also, Montenegro and Serbia are very close, and they might say that they are the other nationality during a conversation for some odd reason, and to be clear,  do not call a Montenegrin a Serbian or vice versa, unless told to.

They also have their own folklore and dances like The Eagle dance, during weddings they plant olive trees to signify unity.

Although their language can be written in either the Cyrillic alphabet or Latin (a b c d), they mainly use Latin as it is easier to read and write.

For their religious side of things, around 1/3 of the population is Eastern Orthodox. And Islam at 20%. 

They are also the second tallest people second to the Netherlands.

They were colonised by: The Illyrians, Greeks, maybe the Celts, and the Roman Empire as well, the Slavs came in around the 6th century,  and they were part of the kingdom of Dukila, they tried to attack Constantinople, and failed. 
They changed their name to Zeta, and Venetan came in and influenced for three centuries. Part of the Ottoman Empire, Russia helped them with the Ottomans, the treaty of Berlin, The Balkan wars, then WW1, then they joined the Kingdom of Serbs (the processor of Yugoslavia) and in WW2 they were part of the "socialist federal republic of Yugoslavia". 

Civil wars in the 90s, and they split off from Serbia.

Famous people from this country are 

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