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16
.
La Dictionnaire encyclopédique Quillet
(Paris, 1935).
17
.
www.montenegro.org/kirigniki.html
(2008). This source is a website of the Montenegrin Association of America.
18
. Wyon and Prance,
Land of the Black Mountain
.
19
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Blood Revenge: The Enactment and Management of Conflict in Montenegro and Other Tribal Societies
(Philadelphia, 1987).
20
. See Germaine Tillon,
My Cousin, my Husband: Clans and Clanship in Mediterranean Societies
(London, 2007).
21
. E. D. Goy,
The Sabre and the Song
(Belgrade, 1995).
22
. See Branislav Djurdjev,
Turska vlast u Crnoj Goriu XVI i XVII veku
(Sarajevo, 1953).
23
. Adapted by Norman Davies from
The Mountain Wreath
, by Petar Petrović-Njegoš, trans. Vasa D. Mihailovich (Belgrade, 1997).
24
. S. Pavlović, ‘The Mountain Wreath: Poetry or a Blueprint for the Final Solution?’,
spacesofidentity.net
, 1/3 (Oct. 2001).
25
. George Brodrick
et al.
, ‘Montenegro and its Borderlands: A Discussion’,
Geographical Journal
, 4/5 (1894), pp. 405–7.
26
. As quoted in ‘Montenegro: A Commentary’,
Ambassadors’ Review
(Fall 2008).
27
. W. E. Gladstone,
Montenegro or Tsernagora: A Sketch
(London, 1913), pp. 4–5; repr. from
Nineteenth Century
(May 1877).
28
. Ibid., p. 18.
29
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Ballads and Other Poems
(1880).
30
.
Montenegro
, FCO Handbook No. 19, p. 36.
31
. ‘Montenegro’, in
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, 11th edn. (1911).
32
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Serbian Orthodox Fundamentals
(Budapest, 2003).
33
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www.njegos.org/petrovics/family.htm
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34
. Charles Henry Meltzer, ‘Nicholas of Montenegro, King and Dramatist’,
New York Times
(11 Nov. 1917).
35
. Don Marquis, ‘Nicholas of Montenegro’ (1912).
36
. See Richard Hall,
The Balkan Wars, 1912–13: Prelude to the First World War
(London, 2000); also Brian Pearce (ed.),
The Balkan Wars: The War Correspondence of Leon Trotsky
(London, 1980).
37
. Nicholas I Petrovitch-Niegosh,
The Empress of the Balkans
, trans. W. M. Petrovitch and D. J. Volnay (London, 1913).
38
. Meltzer, ‘Nicholas of Montenegro’. His article, which was prompted by the announcement of King Nicola’s exile, contained reminiscences of events some six years earlier.
39
. Margaret MacMillan,
Peacemakers
(London, 2001), p. 129.
40
. ‘Vilya’s Song’ for
Die lustiger Witwe
(‘The Merry Widow’), music by Franz Lehár, libretto by Victor Leon and Leo Stein; see J. Kenrick, ‘The History of a Hit’ (2004),
www.musicals101.com/widowhist/htm
.
41
. Montenegro postal history: Kingdom of Montenegro from 1874, Austrian occupation, 1917–18, Italian occupation, 1941–3, German occupation, 1943–4,
Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue
(New York, 1984), vol. 3, pp. 890–92.
42
. See Jan Gordon,
Two Vagabonds in Serbia and Montenegro, 1915
(London, 1939).
43
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Montenegro
(London, 1964), p. 107.
44
. Corfu Declaration (1917),
www.firstworldwar.org/source/greaterserbia_corfudeclaration.htm
(2010).
45
. Hugh Seton-Watson (ed.),
R. W. Seton-Watson and the Yugoslavs: Correspondence 1906

41
, 2 vols. (London, 1976), vol. 1, p. 359.
46
. MacMillan,
Peacemakers
, p. 27.
47
. Roberts,
Realm of the Black Mountain
, pp. 218  ff.
48
. Andrija Radović to R. W. Seton-Watson,
R. W. Seton-Watson and the Yugoslavs
, vol. 1, p. 304.
49
. Djilas,
Montenegro
, pp. 108–9.
50
. Hugh Seton-Watson,
The Making of a New Europe: R. W. Seton-Watson and the Last Years of Austria-Hungary
(London, 1981), p. 157.
51
. Wilson’s Fourteen Points, quoted by Roberts,
Realm of the Black Mountain
, p. 330.
52
. Šerbo Rastoder, ‘Twentieth Century Montenegro’, in his
The History of Montenegro from Ancient Tim
es (Podgorica, 2006), pp. 159  ff.
53
. Ivo Banac,
The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origin, History, Politics
(Ithaca, NY, 1984), especially part II, ‘Great Serbia and Great Yugoslavia’, pp. 141–214.
54
. Rastoder, ‘Twentieth Century Montenegro’, p. 160.
55
. MacMillan,
Peacemakers
, p. 126.
56
. Quoted by Roberts,
Realm of the Black Mountain
, p. 320.
57
. Rastoder, ‘Twentieth Century Montenegro’, p. 162.
58
. Quoted in Alex Devine,
The Martyred Nation: A Plea for Montenegro
(London, 1924), p. 13.
59
. Ibid.
60
. Milovan Djilas,
Land Without Justice
(New York, 1958), quoted by Roberts,
Realm of the Black Mountain
, p. 326.
61
. J. Ciubranovitch (ed.),
Le Plus Grand Crime de L’histoire
(Rome, 1928), p. 10.
62
. A. Radović,
Le Montenégro: son passé et son avenir
(Paris, 1918); Janko Spasojevic,
Le Roi Nicholas et l’Union du Montenegro avec la Serbie
(Geneva, 1918); Alex Devine,
Montenegro in History, Politics and War
(London, 1918); Yovan Plamenatz,
Le Monténegro devant La Conférence de la paix
(Paris, 1919).
63
. On Montenegro at the Peace Conference, see Dejan Djokić,
Nikola Pasić and Ante Trumbić: the Kingdom of Croats, Serbs and Slovenes
(London, 2010) (the Peace Conferences of 1919–23 and their aftermath), and Whitney Warren,
Montenegro: The Crime of the Peace Conference
(New York, 1922); also Ivo Lederer,
Yugoslavia at the Peace Conference
(New Haven, 1963).
64
. Report by earl de Salis on Montenegro, 21 August 1919, PRO (London) FO 608/46: referenced by Roberts,
Realm of the Black Mountain
. Text published in R. L. Jarman (ed.),
Yugoslavia Political Diaries, 1918

65
(Cambridge, 1997), vol. 1.
65
. Temperley Report, 12 October 1919, in Jarman,
Yugoslavia Political Diaries
, vol. 1.
66
. See J. D. Fair,
Harold Temperley: A Scholar and Romantic in the Public Realm
(London, 1992).
67
.
Montenegro
, FCO Handbook No. 19, p. 38.
68
.
New York Times
(4 April 1920).
69
. Devine,
Martyred Nation
, p. 34.
70
. Report by earl de Salis, in Jarman,
Yugoslavia Political Diaries
, vol. 1.
71
. Col. Burham, quoted by Devine,
Martyred Nation
, pp. 19–20.
72
. Enclosure in George Grahame (Paris) to Earl Curzon, 19 August 1920. National Archives, LG/F/57/2//4.
73
. Bryce Report, 12 December 1920, in Jarman,
Yugoslavia Political Diaries
, vol. 1.
74
. Published in the
New York Times
in 1922.
75
.
New York Times
(22 Oct. 1921).
76
. Ciubranovitch,
Le Plus Grand Crime
.
77
. Ibid.
78
. ‘Montenegro’s Plea as Made at Genoa’,
New York Times
(4 June 1922).
79
. Walter Littlefield, ‘Annihilation of a Nation: Montenegrins’ Effort to Prevent Annexation of their Country to Serbia’,
New York Times
(16 April 1922).
80
. Devine,
Martyred Nation
, p. 1.
81
. ‘Serbian Bishop Condemns Supporters of the Montenegrin Church’, BBC – IMR, 7 January 2006.
82
.
www.moc-cpc.org/index_e.htm
(2010).
83
. See T. Judah,
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
(New Haven, 1997).
84
. Lenard Cohen,
Serpent in the Bosom: The Rise and Fall of Slobodan Miloševíc
(Boulder, Colo., 2001).
85
. Nick Hawton,
The Quest for Radovan Karadz
ˇ

(London, 2009).
86
. ‘Serbia accepts Montenegro Result’, BBC News, 23 May 2006, news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/Europe/5009242.stm (2011).
87
. Florian Bieber (ed.),
Montenegro in Transition: Problems of Identity and Statehood
(Baden-Baden, 2003).
88
.
http://www.montenegro.org/language.html
(2011).
89
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gptpjmdtofk
(2011).
90
. ‘PM Unveils Monument to Last Montenegrin King, Vows to Renew Independence’, BBC – IMR, 20 December 2005.

III

91
.
http://njegos.org/past/petrovics/family.htm
(2008); see also Olga Opfell,
Royalty Who Wait
(Jefferson, NC, 2001).
92
. See
www.cfr.org/publication/15897/montevideo_convention.html
(2008).
93
. James Barros,
The
Å
land Islands Question
(New Haven, 1968).
94
. Miranda Vickers, The Albanians: A Modern History (London, 1999).
95
. E. J. Dillon,
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
(London, 1919), p. 98.
96
. Roberts,
Realm of the Black Mountain
; Rastoder, ‘Twentieth Century Montenegro’; Devine,
Martyred Nation
.
97
. Pavlovic,
Balkan Anschluss
, not consulted.
98
. See Andres Kung,
A Dream of Freedom
(Cardiff, 1981).
99
. See Stanislaw Mikolajczyk,
The Rape of Poland
(London, 1948).
100
. Laura Silber, Alan Little and A. Cirić,
The Death of Yugoslavia
(London, 1995); Misha Glenny,
The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War
(London, 1996); Mark Almond,
Europe’s Backyard War
(London, 1994).
101
. Human Rights Watch,
Weighing the Evidence: Lessons from the Slobodan Milosevic Trial
(New York, 2006).
102
.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/onamo_‘namo!
(2008).

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