Kingdom of Montenegro
| Kingdom of Montenegro | ||||||||||
| Краљевина Црнa Горa Kraljevina Crna Gora |
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Anthem Ubavoj nam Crnoj Gori Убавој нам Црној Гори "To Our Beautiful Montenegro" |
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.svg) The Kingdom of Montenegro in 1914.
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| Capital | Cetinje (1910–1916) | |||||||||
| Capital-in-exile |
Bordeaux, Neuilly-sur-Seine |
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| Languages | Serbian | |||||||||
| Religion | Eastern Orthodox (official) | |||||||||
| Government | Constitutional monarchy | |||||||||
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| • | 1910–1918 | Nicholas I | ||||||||
| Prime Minister | ||||||||||
| • | 1910–1912 | Lazar Tomanović (first) | ||||||||
| • | 1917–1918 | Evgenije Popović (last) | ||||||||
| Legislature | Parliament | |||||||||
| Historical era | World War I | |||||||||
| • | Proclamation | 28 August 1910 | ||||||||
| • | Balkan Wars | 1912–1913 | ||||||||
| • | Treaty of London | 30 May 1913 | ||||||||
| • | Balkans Campaign | 1914–1918 | ||||||||
| • | Corfu Declaration | 20 July 1917 | ||||||||
| • | Unification with Serbia | 28 November 1918 | ||||||||
| • | Creation of Yugoslavia | 1 December 1918 | ||||||||
| Area | ||||||||||
| • | 1910 | 9,475 km² (3,658 sq mi) | ||||||||
| • | 1912 | 14,442 km² (5,576 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | ||||||||||
| • | 1911 est. | 220,000 | ||||||||
| • | 1914 est. | 423,000 | ||||||||
| Currency | Montenegrin Perper | |||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Montenegro Serbia
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Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism
The Kingdom of Montenegro (Serbian: Краљевина Црнa Горa / Kraljevina Crna Gora), was a monarchy in southeastern Europe, present day Montenegro, during the tumultuous years on the Balkan Peninsula leading up to and during World War I. Legally it was a constitutional monarchy, but absolutist in practice. On 28 November 1918, following the end of World War I, with its government still in exile, the unconstitutional Podgorica Assembly proclaimed union with the Kingdom of Serbia, and was merged into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes three days later, on 1 December 1918.
Prince Nicholas of Montenegro proclaimed the Kingdom of Montenegro in Cetinje on 28 August 1910. King Nicholas I (as he became) had ruled the country as Prince since 1860, and had initiated several modernizing reforms at the beginning of the 20th century, such as introducing a constitution and a new currency, the Montenegrin perper.
Montenegro joined the First Balkan War in 1912, hoping to win a share in the last Ottoman-controlled areas of Rumelia. Montenegro did make further territorial gains by splitting Sandžak with Serbia on 30 May 1913. But the Montenegrins had to abandon the newly captured city of İşkodra (Skadar in Serbian, subsequently Shkodër) to the new state of Albania in May 1913, at the insistence of the Great Powers, despite the Montenegrins having invested 10,000 lives into the capture of the town (April 1913) from the Ottoman-Albanian forces of Esad Pasha.
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