Monte negro

A principality of Europe, situated between the Turkish eyalets of Bosnia and Albania, and separated from the Adriatic by the narrow strip of land known as the circle of Cattaro, in Austrian Dalmatia. The Mon tene grins are Slavs of the Servian race, knit together in clans and families, and have many fights among themselves, which are perpetuated by the hereditary obligation of avenging blood. Monte negro belonged in the Middle Ages to the great Servian kingdom, but after the dismemberment of the latter, and its conquest by the Turks at the battle of Ko ovo (1389), the Mon tene grins, under their prince, who was of the royal blood of Servia, maintained their independence, though compelled to relinquish the level tracts of land, and confine themselves to the mountains, in 1485. The Turks continued to a ert their claims to Monte negro, but they were only defeated in their plans, and in 1710 the Mon tene grins sought and obtained the protection of Ru ia, the czar agreeing to grant an annual subsidy on condition of their hara ing the Turks by inroads. In 1860 the Mon tene grins excited an insurrection against the Turkish rule in Herzegovina, which was soon suppre ed, and in return they themselves were so hard pre ed by the Turks that they were glad to agree to a treaty (September 8, 1862) by which the sovereignty of the Porte over Monte negro was recognized.