Principality of Montenegro Књажевина Црна Горa Knjaževina Crna Gora | |||||||||
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1852–1910 | |||||||||
Anthem: Убавој нам Црној Гори Ubavoj nam Crnoj Gori (English: "To Our Beautiful Montenegro") | |||||||||
![]() The Principality of Montenegro in 1890. | |||||||||
Capital | Cetinje | ||||||||
Common languages | Serbian | ||||||||
Religion | Majority: Serbian Orthodox Church Minority: Islam | ||||||||
Demonym(s) | Montenegrin | ||||||||
Government | Unitary absolute monarchy (de facto) Unitary semi-constitutional monarchy (1852–1905) Unitary constitutional monarchy (1905–1910) | ||||||||
Prince | |||||||||
• 1852–1860 (first) | Danilo I | ||||||||
• 1860–1910 (last) | Nikola I | ||||||||
President of the Ministerial Council[1] | |||||||||
• 1905–1906 (first) | Lazar Mijušković[2] | ||||||||
• 1907–1910 (last) | Lazar Tomanović | ||||||||
Legislature | None (rule by decree) (until 1905) Popular Assembly (from 1905) | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
13 March 1852 | |||||||||
1 May 1858 | |||||||||
18 July 1876 | |||||||||
13 July 1878 | |||||||||
19 December 1905 | |||||||||
28 August 1910 | |||||||||
Currency | Austro-Hungarian Krone (1892–1906) Montenegrin Perper (1906–1910) | ||||||||
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Today part of | Montenegro |
The Principality of Montenegro (Serbian: Књажевина Црна Горa, romanized: Knjaževina Crna Gora) was a principality in Southeastern Europe that existed from 13 March 1852 to 28 August 1910. It was then proclaimed a kingdom by Nikola I, who then became King of Montenegro.
The capital was Cetinje and the Montenegrin perper was used as the state currency from 1906. The territory corresponded to the central area of modern-day Montenegro. It officially was a constitutional monarchy.