Old Montenegro

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Old Montenegro is the historic core region of Montenegro, encompassing the mountainous heartland where the Montenegrin people and their medieval state first developed.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Old Montenegro canonical 3
historic Montenegro 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf core region of Montenegro
historical region
associatedWith Montenegrin–Ottoman wars
Ottoman–Montenegrin conflicts
borderedBy Brda region
linked to: Brda

Coastal Montenegro
Old Herzegovina
linked to: Herzegovina
contains Cetinje
Njeguši
Rijeka Crnojevića
country Montenegro
culturalSignificance symbolic core of Montenegrin national identity
developedDuring Middle Ages
ethnicGroup Montenegrins
formerPoliticalStatus core territory of the Kingdom of Montenegro
core territory of the Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro
core territory of the Principality of Montenegro
governedBy House of Petrović-Njegoš
Prince-Bishops of Montenegro
hasCapital Cetinje
hasFeature clan-based social organization
fortified villages
karst mountains
heritageStatus important part of Montenegrin cultural heritage
historicalName Crna Gora (in a narrower sense)
linked to: Montenegro
historicalRole cradle of the medieval Montenegrin state
heartland of the Montenegrin people
language Montenegrin
Serbian
linkedTo Cetinje Monastery
Lovćen mountain
Petrović-Njegoš dynasty
locatedIn Balkans
Southeastern Europe
linked to: Balkans
modernStatus no longer an administrative unit
partOf Montenegro
historic Montenegro
linked to: Old Montenegro
religion Eastern Orthodoxy
terrain mountainous
timePeriod 19th century
early modern period
medieval period
traditionalNameInMontenegrin Stara Crna Gora
usedAs base of resistance against Ottoman Empire

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Montenegrins ethnogenesisRegion Old Montenegro
Old Montenegro partOf historic Montenegro
linked to: Old Montenegro
Brda (Highlands of Montenegro) partOf Old Montenegro
Crnogorci ethnogenesisRegion Old Montenegro