The Orthodox prince-bishops of Cetinje leading the mountain clans of the Black Mountain — a theocratic pocket of self-rule that outlasted every Ottoman attempt to subdue it.
Danilo II shed the episcopal office in 1852 and made Montenegro a secular principality, recognized fully independent at Berlin in 1878.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro — the shape you scrub through changes in 1516 · 1616.
Full-length history of Montenegro with the vladikas' state at its core.
Carries the story from the prince-bishopric into the modern state.