page_title: Old Montenegro
section_title: See also
hierarchical_section_title: Old Montenegro / See also
caption_attribution_description: English: This is Vincenzo Maria Coronelli's 1690 map of Montenegro. Covers the Dalmatian coast from Dubrovnik to Gjiri i Drinit, including all of modern day Montenegro as well as parts of adjacent Croatia, Albania, and Bosnia Herzegovina. Most of Coronelli's maps of the Dalmatian coast were intended to highlight the military victories of the Venetian Republic over the expansive Ottoman Turks. No exception, this map features notations throughout referring to various military battles for control of this hotly contested region. As a whole this is a splendid example of Coronelli's distinctive style at its finest, with detailed engraving, historical notes, armorial vignettes, and an elaborate title cartouche complete with a cherub riding a sea monster. Published for inclusion in Coronelli's stupendous 1690 Atlante Veneto .
context_page_description: Old Montenegro, also known as Montenegro proper, or True Montenegro, is a term used for the embryonic part of modern Montenegro. In historical context, the term designates the original territory of the Principality of Montenegro, before the territorial expansion, ratified by the Congress of Berlin in 1878, or even more precisely - the territory of the Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro prior to its unification with the region of Brda in the first half of the 19th century.
  During the Ottoman period, from the 16th up to the 18th century, the original Montenegro was made up of the Montenegrin tribes, traditionally divided into four territorial units, or nahije: Katun, Rijeka, Lješanska nahija and Crmnica. Their inhabitants were known under the regional demonym Montenegrins, as opposed to the inhabitants of neighboring regions. Since the end of the 18th century, Montenegro started to expand, incorporating the region of Brda in the first half of the 19th century, the region of Old Herzegovina and part of Primorje in 1878, and finally upper and central Polimlje and northern Metohija in 1912.
context_section_description: History of Montenegro
  Sanjak of Montenegro
  Vilayet of Montenegro
  Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro
  Brda (Montenegro)
  Old Herzegovina
  Primorje (Montenegro)
  Serbs of Montenegro
caption: Coronelli Map of the Skadar Lake region, including the Old Montenegro (1690)
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