• Snežana FERJANČIĆ, RIMSKA VOJSKA NA TLU CRNE GORE: EPIGRAFSKA SVEDOČANSTVA, 7-25  Download

ABSTRACT: Epigraphic evidence from the territory of Montenegro pertaining to the Roman army testifies to the history of the province of Dalmatia and its garrison. Inscriptions imply the existence of stations of beneficiarii consularis in Doclea and Municipium Splonistarum respectively. From the reign of Marcus Aurelius onwards, the latter town might have been garrisoned by a detachment of the cohort II milliaria Delmatarum, which was stationed on the border between Dalmatia and Moesia Superior. Epigraphic evidence from Risinium and Municipium Splonistarum shows that the units of the Roman army were replenished with recruits from these towns and their territories. Onomastic evidence implies that some of the conscripts belonged to the indigenous population of Dalmatia.

• Мирко ОБРАДОВИћ, РЕКЕ НА БАЛКАНУ ЈУЖНО ОД ДУНАВА И СЕВЕРНО

ОД ХЕЛАДЕ У СТРАБОНОВОЈ ГЕОГРАФИЈИ, 27-51  Download

ABSTRACT: The paper deals with Strabo’s account of rivers running through the Balkans, belonging to the Black Sea, Adriatic and Aegean drainage basins. His knowledge of rivers is focused on navigable parts and river mouths, rather than on those parts closer to the source. Regarding the rivers of the Black Sea drainage basin, Strabo mentions the most important right tributaries of the Danube, and the Sava River and its tributaries are considered in relation to the ancient trade routes. The rivers of the Adriatic basin are mostly short and isolated without the possibility of easy communication between one river-basin and another, but the economic importance of these rivers is underlined and it is specified, seen from the mouth to the inland, whether a river is navigable or not. Strabo was also well acquainted with the five great rivers of ancient Macedonia and Thrace which enter the Aegean Sea. Unfortunately, Book VII of Strabo’s Geography is not preserved in its entirety, but even in the fragmentary state in which it is preserved, it contains the most complete geographical description of ancient Macedonia and the Thracian coast in antiquity we possess today.

• Миљан ГОГИћ, О ПОВЕЉИ КРАЉИЦЕ ЈЕЛЕНЕ АНЖУЈСКЕ ЗА СЕЛО ЗАТОР (1276‒1306), 53-72  Download

ABSTRACT: This paper analyses the contents of the text of the charter issued by Queen Helen of Anjou to the village of Zator‒which is in the immediate vicinity of Kotor –during her reign in Zeta (1276‒1306). The charter has been preserved in multiple transcripts, as well as Italian translations. The charter states the boundaries of the village, as defined by Queen Helen, which were established on the site. Penalties are prescribed in the case of any unlawful use of this area by the surrounding population. The charter stipulates legal norms which determine the pecuniary tributes paid by the inhabitants of the village, in relation to court proceedings. A fine is prescribed for any breach of these norms. The paper concludes that a part of the border of the village of Zator had corresponded with a part of the border of the Kotor district since the first half of the 14th century.

• Dorin-Ioan RUS, CONSIDERATIONS SUR LES ANOMALIES CLIMATIQUES DANS LES PRINCIPAUTES DANUBIENNES ENTRE 1783 ET 1785, 73-104  Download

ABSTRACT: This lecture is part of a larger project dealing with the environmental history of South-East Europe in the 18th and 19th century. It will discuss the impact of natural and meteorological phenomena on a multicultural society in a borderland of the Russian, Ottoman and Habsburg Empire. The study assesses this topic from two perspectives: that of contemporary interpretations and that of contemporary intervention measures. The population’s perceptions at the time were permeated by religious concepts, such as divine punishment, while the official perception had only started to be influenced by the rational, enlightened interpretation of the transition period to modernity. The eruption of Laki in 1783 triggered a sudden and serious climate change. The ensuing drop in temperature caused a massive decrease in agricultural production which, in turn, lead to famine in the following years. The effects of this catastrophe in this part of Europe have not yet been thoroughly researched thus far. A great number of chronicles, travel books, memoirs, official documents in Central and Western Europe mention low temperatures, price hikes, poverty and famine. Based on external sources, this research will contribute to the development of historiography on the on climatic anomalies in the Danube principalities between 1783 and 1785 and analyses the impact of weather on the economy of both Romanian countries. In comparison with other Central European countries, the impact of the weather on the two Romanian principalities was rather weak, the economy functioned within its limits; the summer and autumn of 1785 were extremely rich. The main problem of both analysed countries was the plague, which broke out during this period.

• Anna BATZELI, MONTENEGRIN VOLUNTEERS IN THE GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 105-113  Download

ABSTRACT: On the occasion of the bicentennial anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, the present paper aims to briefly present the participation of Montenegrin volunteers in the revolutionary activities. Montenegrin volunteers’ participation is an interesting case study, as it is linked to the Balkan dimension of the Greek revolution and it offers insights on the impact of the French revolution in the region.

• Giordano MERLICCO, BETWEEN OLD AUSTRIA AND NEW FOES: ITALY AND THE YUGOSLAV PROJECT (1917-18), 115-138  Download

ABSTRACT: After the 1917 Corfu Declaration several Italian political circles adopted a warm approach towards Yugoslav unity. Following Mazzini’s ideas, democratic interventionists had claimed since the beginning of the war a policy based on the national principle. They were eventually joined by more conservative sectors, which believed the international context had radically changed since 1915 and therefore it was necessary to make a general reappraisal of Italy’s war aims. They favoured a deal with Serbia and the Yugoslav Committee in order to destabilize the Austrian Empire and agree a mutually acceptable definition of the common border. Minister of Foreign Affairs Sonnino instead believed that Italian war aims had been fixed once and for all in 1915 and refused both direct talks and a reappraisal of Italian war aims. Lacking a bilateral deal with Serbs/Yugoslavs, Rome finally found itself helpless at the peace negotiations, when Paris and London backtracked from the promises made in 1915.

• Срђа МАРТИНОВИћ, МОНОПОЛСКА, ПОГРАНИЧНА И ФИНАНСИЈСКА

ЖАНДАРМЕРИЈА У КЊАЖЕВИНИ И КРАЉЕВИНИ ЦРНОЈ ГОРИ, 139-152  Download

ABSTRACT: The first half of the first decade of the 20th century was marked by the strengthening of gendarmerie bodies and the adoption of appropriate legal regulations or ordinances. The increase in smuggling of tobacco and weapons imposed the need to form special bodies that would oppose various manipulations and smuggling. In the then Principality and Kingdom of Montenegro, in addition to the state and military gendarmerie, three more functioned: monopoly, border and financial. These gendarmerie had different competencies, which often overlapped in the field.

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• Burhan ČELEBIĆ, STEĆCI BJELOPOLJSKO-BIHORSKOG KRAJA KAO MATERIJALNI SEGMENT NEDOVOLJNO ISTRAŽENE KULTURNO-ISTORIJSKE BAŠTINE, 153-176  Download

ABSTRACT: This paper presents my research on the discovery of numerous hitherto unknown necropolises of stećak – tombstones in the Bijelo Polje-Bihor region. A review is given of previous research, but also of inconsistent opinions about symbols and inscriptions on many stećak – tombstones. Unfortunately, a large part of the stećak – tombstones in this area were either broken or built into various buildings, so my intention was, in addition to finding and interpreting the symbols on them, to point out to our professional public and cultural heritage institutions to encourage further research and protection of this truly great cultural treasure. Many necropolises of stećak tombstones found in the Bijelo Polje-Bihor region are a real archaeological treasure, both in terms of their shapes and the motifs found on the stećak tombstones. In this area, we find such a variety of motifs on the stećak – tombstones that it is a real cultural treasure that deserves further research, but the valorization of existing ones.

• Filip D. VUČETIĆ, ANEKSIONA KRIZA I SRPSKO PITANJE 1908-1909, 177-191  Download

ABSTRACT: By the decisions of the Berlin Congress in 1878, Austria-Hungary occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina, although it was still the territory of the Ottoman Empire. The entry of the Austrian military and civilian authorities into Bosnia and Herzegovina was the first step of the German penetration to the east. From 1878, Vienna had carefully been preparing the annexation and the right moment for it was 1908. Defeated in the war with Japan, and shaken by the revolution in 1905, Russia was unable to react. The annexation, carried out by Vienna, caused dissatisfaction in Cetinje and Belgrade. Serbia and Montenegro were ready to get into war for their rights. For the above-mentioned reasons, Russia was not ready for war, so Serbia and Montenegro had to withdraw, failing to receive even territorial compensation for the loss of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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• Радослав РАСПОПОВИћ, ПЕТАР АНДРЕЈЕВИЧ ШУВАЛОВ: БИЉЕШКЕ О БЕРЛИНСКОМ КОНГРЕСУ, 193-219  Download

ABSTRACT: The paper is based on the memoirs of Count Peter Andreyevich Shuvalov, the second plenipotentiary representative of the Russian Empire at the Berlin Congress. The remarks made by P.A. Shuvalov regarding the work of the Congress are kept as a written record in the Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA) in St. Petersburg, in the fund of the Office of the Minister of Finance. The significance of the Congress and the significance of the person who wrote down his own account of the said events, make this document unique among the documents on the work of the Congress.

• Nevenka BOGOJEVIĆ-GLUŠČEVIĆ, Provisions of the Medieval Cattaro Statute on Testament and their Application in Notary Practice, 7-24   DOWNLOAD

Abstract: Analyzing archive materials, mostly written in Latin alphabet, legal historians and romanists have come to a conclusion that the hereditary legal institutes treated, as welll as other institutes of the private law of the southern Adriatic communes, had a feature undertaken mainly from the classical roman Law, or recepted ius communae. Some deviations were present to a less or greater extent, and reflected direct and indirect influences of Slavic and Byzantine law that were coming from the Balkan Peninsula’s inland to coastal centres. Further investigations on detailed sources of many issues are needed to make a mosaic of the dominant influences on the formation of medieval private law in Adriatic coastal towns. This paper is a continuation of my research on the institute of testament in Medieval Cattaro, and it is related to the analysis of the statutory provisions on testing freedom and obliged testaments forms, as well as the application of these form in order to determine a real influence and significance of the classical Roman law and similar ones, developed later on its normative arrangement and real legal life.

• Lovorka ČORALIĆ, Maja KATUŠIĆ, Peraški kapetan Josip Zambella, mletački ratni brod Vittoria II i sastav njegove posade (kraj 18. stoljeća), 25-56  DOWNLOAD

Abstract: In the centre of the research of this article is agency of Captain Joseph Zambella of Perast (d. 1794), who commanded Venetian warship Vittoria II in the last years of the existence of the Republic of Venice. The article is in the first place based on the research of unpublished sources from the Archivio di Stato di Venezia (the deeds of the magistracy of Venetian Navy – Provveditori all’Armar). The composition of the crew commanded by Captain Joseph Zambella is analysed in detail and concludes that seamen who were by their origin from the East Adriatic coast had an important position on the ship Vittoria II. The article contains also appendices with lists of the ship’s crew in two periods (1785-1791 and 1791-1794).

• Maja ĐURIĆ, Oprema fotografija i dizajn reversnih strana crnogorskih fotografija u prvoj polovini 20. vijeka. Istorijski pregled fotografskih formata, kartonažne opreme Crne Gore u upotrebi od 1840-1940 te godine, 57-68  DOWNLOAD

Abstract: The paper deals with a new era in photography started in 1871, thus enabling the industrial production of photo materiel. Competition of the numerous photographers, working in this period, led to a new approach of design of the ateliers’ commercial notes at the back side of the photos. They became the printing places for creative designed logos and the data on rewards, decorations and medals from the exhibitions. Thus provided search for photographic paper induced the development of the whole kind of industry for its production, as well as different forms of applied design in Montenegro at the end of 19th and beginning of 20th century.

• Stjepan MATKOVIĆ, Hrvatska percepcija Balkanskih ratova, 69-83  DOWNLOAD

Abstract: This paper deals with attitude of Croatian public to the Balkan wars 1912-1913. Although the territories of Austrian – Hungarian Monarchy, settled dominantly with Croatians, haven’t been directly affected by the warfare, it produced a huge interest at the all levels of society. Their vicinity meant that the results could easily overcome the category of “local conflict”, producing the different opinions and tendencies in the course of thorough solution of the national question.

• Slavko Burzanović, Italija i Crna Gora u Aneksionoj krizi 1908-1909, 85-110  DOWNLOAD

Аbstract: In this article, author deals with the relations of Montenegro and Italy during the annexation crisis, Italy’s role in the abolition of Article 29. of the Treaty of Berlin, and intermediation in the normalization of relations between Montenegro and the Austria-Hungary.

• Draga MASTILOVIĆ, Hercegovački bataljon crnogorske vojske u Italiji prema svjedočenjima povratnika iz Gaete, 111-130  DOWNLOAD

Abstract: Although there is an enormous literature and numerous volumes of historical material on Montenegro Outlaw Movement, after the First World War, and on Montenegrin army in Italy, there are still some gaps and unanswered questions regarding this topic. One of these gaps is the participation of the Herzegovinians and Bosnians in the Montenegrin legion in Gaeta, and their motives or reasons for joining the fight for dynastic rights of dethroned Montenegrin leader. According to the statements of the returnees to the Kingdom of SHS in the March of 1921, we can see how they reached Gaeta and understand the relations between the officers and the soldiers in the military camp. Besides, their statements provide valuable facts on suffering of the subjects of the newly formed Kingdom of SHS in the Italian camps, after the First World War.

• Predrag SIMIĆ, Izveštaji Karnegijeve zadužbine za međunarodni mir o balkanskim ratovima iz 1914. i 1996. godine, 131-150  DOWNLOAD

Abstract: The paper examines how Western interests and perceptions of the Balkans affected the policy of great western powers towards the region at the beginning and at the end of the twentieth century. First Carnegie Endowment report on the Balkans was prepared on the American initiative by the international commission led by French senator D`Esturnel de Constant that investigated the causes and the conduct of the Balkan Wars. Published in 1914, shortly before the beginning of the World War One, it condemned the atrocities committed by the belligerents and advocated closer transatlantic cooperation in formulating Western policy towards the Balkans. Reprint of the 1914. report was published in 1993 with the introduction written by George F. Kennan during the Civil War in Yugoslavia and led to the second Carnegie Endowment report entitled „Unfinished Peace“, prepared by the international commission led by former Belgium prime minister, Leo Tindemans. Elaborating on the 1914 thesis that only transatlantic cooperation can pacify the post-Cold War Balkans and control the Balkans nationalisms that were, in Kennan`s opinion, threatening peace and stability in Europe. Even though he considered the Balkans an European problem Kennan conclude that this situation is one to which US cannot be indifferent advocating the use of force to stop the war and long-lasting involvement of the West in reconstruction of the region.

• Dmitar TASIĆ, Kontraobaveštajna služba (KOS) i rezolucija IB. Prilog istraživanju istorije vojne službe bezbednosti, 151-170  DOWNLOAD

Аbstract: One of the Yugoslav institutions especially endangered by the events in 1948th was Yugoslav army. Main role in investigation, arrests and interrogation of the Resolution of Inform beaureau’s supporters within it was assigned to Counter-Inteligence Service. The paper shows the example of KNOJ and the way that mentioned events influenced the one of the elite army formations. A work itself was based on the documents preserved at Military archive in Belgrade.

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• Elena SKVORCOVA, Djelatnost ministra spoljnih poslova Ruske imperije Sergeja Dmitrijeviča Sazonova pred Prvi svjetski rat, 171-178  DOWNLOAD

Abstract: During the First Balkan War Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia S.D. Sazonov spoke for settling issues through seeking compromise solution, non – interference of big powers in conflicts, joining their efforts for sorting out the existing disagreements. In the course of the Second Balkan War he aimed at conciliating the sides. On the eve of War 1, Sazonov conducted the policy targeted at entering into alliance with France and Britain. During the Austria-Serbia conflict he took an initiative position for preventing war.

• Marijeta BARJAKTAROVIĆ–LANZARDI, Milan PODUNAVAC, Razvoj parlamentarizma u Crnoj Gori i proces približavanja Evropskoj Uniji: značaj i uloga parlamenta, 179-196  DOWNLOAD

Abstract: This paper deals with relation between development of the parliamentarism in Montenegro and European integration process. The intention is to demonstrate the way in which association to the European Union has impact on the fostering development of the parliamentarism in Montenegro and to explain which role the parliament, as the most important political institution, should have in this process.