My country MONTENEGRO:

“Crna Gora je i morska pjena i sniježna prašina, igra kamenih litica i sunovrat potoka...”

“Montenegro is the sea foam, snow dust and a dance of steep cliffs and headlong streams...”

Veljko Vlahović

Mirjana DjurovicHubert H. Humphrey Fellowship

College of Education

Pennsylvania State University

October 8, 2009

Montenegro

• Location: South East Europe, Balkan Peninsula

• Size: 13,820 km2

• Population over 630,000

• Name Through History: Duklja.. Zeta.. Crna Gora

• Relief &Climate zones : mountains, continental, moderate – mediteranenan, and coastal

• Rivers & lakes: canyons, glacial lakes,

• National parks and sites: Durmitor, Lovćen, Biogradska Gora, Skadar lake,

• People, language, religion & education

• National Custom, instrument, furniture, currency and food

• Famous artists and anecdotes

Montenegro has size

of 0,14% of Erupe

Names of Montenegro through history:

• IV Prevalitana

• VII Doklea (settled by Slavic)

• 1042-1360 Zeta and dynasty of Nemanjići

• 1430 Crna Gora (Montenegro)

• 1878 Montenegro recognized as 27th

country in the world

• 1910 Kingdom of Montenegro

• 1919 within Kingdom of Serbia

• 1929-41 in Kingdom of

Yugoslavia – Zetska Banovina

• 1945 SFRY- Republic of

Montenegro

• 2003 Serbia & Montenegro

• 2006 Crna Gora -Montenegro

Flags of Montenegro

Area of Montenegro was the

only free and independent part

during Ottoman empire

Old Montenegro

“Obod”, the1st

Cyrillic printing

house on Balkan,

established in

1494 in Cetinje

and the Book of

Psalm (Oktoih)

was the 1st printed

edition

High mountains with sub alpine

climate, cold and snow winters

and moderate summers with

average temperature of 8°C,

Plain of the Central Montenegro withmodified mediterranean climate with average annual temperature of 5-25°C

The high Dinaric mountains of Orjen, Lovcen and Rumija rise steeply from the sea, with continental climate

seacoast with coastal climate having dry summers and mild, rainy winters

Mountains of Montenegro

Area of high limestone mountains, caves, holes, fields, swallys, plains

Montenegro is the 1st

world proclaimed

ecological state, in Zabljak

1991

Canyon of Tara River1st in Europe, 2nd in the

world (78 km in length and

1,300 meters in depth )

National Park Durmitor

under UNESCO

protection

Rijeka Crnojevića

Ada & River

Bojana

Glacial lakes

National Park: Skadar lake 40 species of fish and 264 species of birds

2833 vegetative species or 25% of

European spices

Boka

Risan

Tivat

Kotor

•

Herceg Novi

Bay

Kotor

Risan- Roman

mosaic

Krasici

Herceg Novi

Herceg Novi

Manastir Savina

Budva and Sveti Stefan

BarUlcinj

Stari Bar i Rumija

“Stara maslina” (Old oliv tree) in Bar

Settlements in the North

of Montenegro

Podgorica, the capital

Typical village in the central area

Cetinje, the old capital

Royal theater – Zetski dom

Summer stage

King Nikola’s palace – Museum

House of government - National museum

Blue castel – Plavi dvorac -Museum

Former British Embassy - Music Academy

Former French Embassy – Drama faculty

Former Serbian Embassy- Ethnographical

museum

Former Russian Embassy – Art Accademy

Former Bulgarian Embassy- now cafe

Former Italian Embassy – Central National

Library

Former Austrian Embassy- Military building

Lovćenska Vila and

Vlash Church

Memorial to Ivan Crnojević

Njegoš’s House- Museum Biljarda

Lovćen and

memorial of

Petar II

Petrovic

Njegoš,

bishop, ruler,

philosoph

and poet

Monastery of St. Petar Cetinjski

Particle of the Blessed Cross Divinity

Icon of Holy Mother Filermosa

Right Hand of St. John

Baptist

Ostrog Monastery

• Ostrog monastery was carved out of a vertical mountainside

• Founded by Vasilije, the Bishop of Herzegovina known as St. Vasilije of Ostrog,

• center of pilgrimage for Orthodox Christians, Catholics and Muslims

National Structure of Montenegro

43%

33%6%

8%

4%

1%

5%

Montengrin 43%

Serb 33%

Albanian 6%

Bosnian 8%

Muslim 4%

Croat 1%

Others 5%

Average age of the population is 35,9 (male 34,8 & fimale 37,0)

Religion in Montenegro

74%

18%

4%

2%1%1%0%

Orthodox 74%

Islam 18%

Catholic 4%

Not declared 2%

No religious 1%

Unknown 1%

Other relig. 0,46%

Mother Language in Montenegro

64%

23%

5% 6%

1%

0%

1%

Serbian

Montenegrin

Albanian

Bosnian

Croat ian

Roma

Other languages

Educational Level for population above 15

2%

14%

22%

48%

12%

2%

Iliterate 2

Uncompleted

El. School 14Elementary

school 22 Secondary

school 48University 12

Unnown 2

Marko Miljanov Popović (1833-1901)

“Bravery is defending

yourself from others and

humanity is defending

others from yourself“.

jatagan

kubura

GUSLE - National instrument

single-string violin

ORO - folk dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3urdWgafYI&feature=related

CRNOGORSKO KOLO

National costumes

Perper

Dinar Euro

Furiture in the village house

Fireplace-OGNJIŠTE

primitive stove-SAČ

pot hanging on a chain- KOTAO I VERIGE

foodsour cream - kajmak

carp, trout and eel

cheese in olive oil

smoked ham

mushrooms

both cow's and sheep's cheese

smoked mutton ham

smoked ham

smoked mutton ham

smoked ham

smoked mutton ham

MNE export

Montenegrin

Grape

Brandy :

Loza, Kruna,

Prvijenac

Red Wines:

Vranac,

Cabernet,

Merlot,

Vranac Pro

Corde

White

Wines:

Krstac,

Chardonnay

Famous artists of Montenegro

Anecdote

I am here, jogging