Montenegro

Republike Crne Gore

Political Status: An autonomous principality formally independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1878; declared a kingdom in 1910; incorporated as part of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, which was constituted as an independent monarchy on December 1, 1918, and formally renamed Yugoslavia on October 3, 1929; constituent republic of the communist Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia instituted November 29, 1945, and then of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia proclaimed April 7, 1963; constituent republic, along with Serbia, of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia proclaimed April 27, 1992, and of the “state union” of Serbia and Montenegro established February 4, 2003, under new Constitutional Charter; Republic of Montenegro established June 3, 2006, following an independence referendum on May ...