ABSTRACT: The paper examines the socio-economic position and the everyday reality of the life of slaves in Lydia and Phrygia, two regions of considerable size within the boundaries of the Roman province of Asia, during the first three centuries of our era. The sources available for the study of slavery in Roman Anatolia are mainly epigraphic monuments, though some ancient writers and anepigraphic archaeological finds offer significant insights as well. The impression gained by the study of this material suggests that slavery was widespread and that it permeated both private life and public institutions, though exact numbers of slaves and their economic significance is difficult to determine.

• Hasan BABACAN, Abidin TEMMIZER, The Muslim Census Book Found with a Soldier Registered in Taşlica (Pljevlja) District, 33-44     DOWNLOAD

ABSTRACT: This study on Taşlıca (Pljevlja) district Muslim military population register The book is registered in the Turkish Presidency State Archives of the Republic of Turkey Ottoman Archives (BOA) population registers, under the number Nfs.d 5780. The population book was prepared April 22, 1868. The book includes the household number, names and birth dates of 192 household heads in 5 neighborhoods and 21 villages of Taşlıca. At the beginning of the book, it is stated that there is also another book prepared since these household heads were in the military.

• Галина ШЕВЦОВА, Деятельность Комитета «Зеленый Крест», Состоявшего Под Покровительством Великой Княгини Милицы Николаевны. 1914-1916, 45-53     DOWNLOAD

ABSTRACT: This paper is based on historical data and Russian press materials for the period from 1914 to 1916 and tells about activities of Green Cross, one of philanthropic organization under protection of the grand duchess Militsa Nikolaevna. Green Cross was established in the first days of the war, opened its divisions in many towns of Russia and provided assistance to Russian, Montenegrin and Serbian soldiers and members of their families. Unique feature of this philanthropic organization consisted in its financial independence of government grants and the amount of collected funds was illustrative of its popularity among people. Such activity went up against other committees under august protection. Activity of green Cross was terminated in December 1916 by decision of the Council of Ministers.

• Vesna ĐIKANOVIĆ, Crnogorska Politička Emigracija u Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama (1922-1924) – Aktivnosti i Jugoslovenski Odgovori, 55-81    DOWNLOAD

ABSTRACT: Presented paper focuses on the activities of Montenegrin emigration in the USA in the years following the end of First World War. New political solutions, disappearance of Montenegro and creation of new Yugoslav State, provoked activities of some Montenegrins in order to promote an idea of restoration of the independent Montenegro. Activities, ideas, impact, reaction of Yugoslav State and its representatives in America as well as results and outcomes are the object of analyses.

• Ivan LAKOVIĆ, Crnogorska Policija u Očima Posmatrača OEBS 1997-2006. godine, 83-103    DOWNLOAD

ABSTRACT: On the base of reports by the relevant body of the OSCE Mission in then Serbia and Montenegro, the paper deals with the topic of perception of Montenegrin police forces and their reformation by the OSCE experts assigned for this area. The article covers the period on the verge of centuries, when Montenegro acquired the new political course towards closer bonding with the West. Finally resulting in changing the status of its statehood, social and political processes of this time were directed and conducted by governmental authorities who dominantly relied upon the use of police forces and the control over them. In this sense, perception of the such police in the eyes of representatives of international community, among which the OSCE’s ones had the most direct contact, brings an insight into the contemporary conditions, problems, perspectives and possibilities of reform within the one of the most important tools the Montenegrin government had at its disposal.

• Danilo KALEZIĆ, The Nature of Political Transformations in Montenegro in the Early 90s: Prolongated Transition and Halted Democratization, 105-116    DOWNLOAD

ABSTRACT: Montenegro’s political transformation from communism to liberal democracy was marked by remarkable political and social developments all of which severely damaged democratic consolidation and political transformation. Instead of following the pattern of other Central/ Eastern European states, Montenegro was deadlocked with an unresolved national question and fragile democratic framework; prolongation of fundamental emancipation of society and state. The article examines major political developments starting the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the introduction of pluralism, and their implications on political and societal transformations in Montenegro.

• Aiša KURBARDOVIĆ, Teskere kao Istorijski Izvori Osmanske Provenijencije u Arhivu Istorijskog Instituta Crne Gore, 117-126    DOWNLOAD

ABSTRACT: This work is motivated by the desire and need to present to the academic public and the wider readership an illustration of lesser-known tadhkirah (Ottoman tezkire) that have been neglected in our historiography. Teskere of Ottoman provenance stored in the Archives of the Historical Institute of Montenegro are an important source of knowledge when it comes to studying the history of Montenegro. These dated documents from the second half of the 18th century, which we publish here, testify to the manner of appointing the village prince and the collection of taxes during the Ottoman rule. In fact, they are important for the local history of Crmnička nahiyah, because they provide us with reliable information on the manner of official communication between the local population and the competent Ottoman authorities.

• Miljan GOGIĆ, Kotorske Isprave iz Ostavštine Vicka Antuna Paskvalija, 127-140    DOWNLOAD

ABSTRACT: The paper contains transcripts of some medieval documents from the manuscript collection “Memorie sulle Bocche di Cattaro concernenti il Culto”, whose parchment templates were in the possession of the Kotor canon Vicko Antun Paskvali during the 18th century. The documents refer to the churches of Kotor: St. Nicholas of the Gardens (1289), St. Lorenzo of Plata (1324, 1347, 1348), St. Luka’s (1270), St. Basileus on Šuranj (1309), St. Maria of Gurdići (1318), and St. Jacob of Loggia (1388). Most of the documents relate to the election of abbots, founding, and patronage over churches, one refers to the leasing of church property. Some of these documents have been scarcely known so far.

• Radoslav Raspopović, Nekoliko Ćirilskih Dokumenata o Šćepanu Malom, 141-185    DOWNLOAD

ABSTRACT: A number of Cyrillic documents written by Šćepan Mali have been published in this paper. Based on their transcribed versions, the author of the paper points out the importance of these materials for the deciphering of the motives behind the appearance of Šćepan Mali, who proclaimed himself to be the Russian Tsar Peter III.

• Miljan GOGIĆ, Prilog proučavanju ciborijuma iz sakristije katedrale Sv. Tripuna posvećenog Petilovrijencima, 9-36   DOWNLOAD

Abstract: This work presents new information about the ciborium from the Kotor cathedral of St. Tryphon, for which a part of the scientific world believes it does not represent a whole, but rather fragments of several related ciboria. We attempt to answer the question as to whom this ciborium was dedicated and when it was erected. By analysing the available sources, it can be concluded that the ciborium was constructed during the eighth decade of the 12th century, back in the days of bishop Nikephoros II and that it was dedicated to the Kotor saints Andrew, Peter and Lawrence.

• Savo MARKOVIĆ, „Y A BUDOA PONDRÉ FUEGO“: Crnogorsko primorje u staroj španskoj i portugalskoj literaturi o Lepantskoj bici, 39-68  DOWNLOAD

ABSTRACT: Opening new areas and perspectives, multidisciplinary researches make it possible to review the existing historical knowledge. Paradigm poliphonicity is of importance not only for an integrating EuropeMediterranean present, but also for the national history and the diversity of its coexisting identities. The principles of Iberian epic from the late sixteenth century, triggered by the battle of Lepanto, reconfirmed the renaissance prestige and attractiveness of the heroic-patriotic genre, as well as of imperial ideology. The urban centers of the Montenegrin Littoral are significantly represented in the considered works, contextualizing, beside Venetian illustrative and descriptive solutions, the relating strategies and discourses.

• Saša BRAJOVIĆ, Re-prezentacije Crnogoraca Teodora Valerioa, 71-82  DOWNLOAD

ABSTRACT: Special attention was given to the presentations Famille monténégrine pleurant ses morts après un combat à l’entrée du monastère de Cettigne, Les Monténégrins se rendant au marché de Kotor and Le prêtre monténégrin en uniforme de combat, portant le drapeau de l’eglisé, created during the seventh decade of 19th century by the French artist Théodore Valério. Valério’s drawings and copper etchings modelled after them, as well as aquarelles, paintings on canvas and illustrations published in popular European magazines, display Montenegrins in a truthful manner, but also in accordance with concepts shaped within the Orientalist discourse. This is why it is emphasised that these presentations must be perceived as constructions unifying the documentary precision and imagination of the Western European understanding of the so called Orient. The analysed presentations, said in the language of contemporary literary and visual theories, are representations, i.e. representations expressing a complex relation between the observed and the observer, the connection between the truthful, the presented and what is expected from the presented. Within such a methodological framework, this text strives to answer the question asked already in 1940 by a professor and once the Director of the Historical Institute of Montenegro, Andrija Lainović: did Valério really see what he presented or are these “exotic” curiosities?

• Milena ULČAR, Magija i religija u Boki Kotorskoj Odnos sujevjerja i pobožnosti prema relikvijama u XVII i XVIII vijeku, 85-90  DOWNLOAD

Abstract: Various archival sources in the Bay of Kotor treasure information on popular religious rituals that were condemned as sinful during 17th and 18th centuries. Throughout the normative literature, such as catechisms and sermons, people susceptible to “sinful madness of magic” were severely criticized. At the same time, veneration of relics and other sacred objects became more carefully supervised, following the posttridentine regulations on practiced religion. The aim of this paper is to propose several examples of “unofficial” piety, emphasizing the flexible border between notions of religion and magic, as well as visual, somatic and verbal features shared between discussed objects and reliquaries in the Bay of Kotor.

• Aleksandra KAPETANOVIĆ, Ivan LAKOVIĆ, Tatjana KOPRIVICA, Olga PELCER-VUJAČIĆ, Graditeljska baština katuna na Kučkoj planini, 93-107  DOWNLOAD

Abstract: The paper brings an overview of the traditional built heritage of the seasonal mountain settlements, locally named katuns at Kuči Mountain in Montenegro. Here the main information on area, historical context, social and economic importance of katuns, as well as the detailed description of the main housing object – stone cottage called glada are presented. The data were collected after consulting relevant literature and conducting field researches in period 2015-2017.

PRILOZI

• Srđa MARTINOVIĆ, Vladika Visarion Borilović Bajica, crnogorski gospodar 1685-1692. godine, 111-118  DOWNLOAD

ABSTRACT: This article is about Montenegrin ruler Visarion Borilovic, his attitude towards enemies and allies. A topic about this period of history is not cover by historians and it is very important for better understanding of relations between Montenegro and Venetian Republic. After this period its coming era of Petrović-Njegoš dinasty and destiny of Montengro is changing.

• Ilija M. MIJUŠKOVIĆ, Jedan memoarski zapis o Mijajlu Nišinom Vučiniću – piperskom vojvodi, 119-126  DOWNLOAD

Abstract: The aim of this work is to make public the research of Mirko M. Mijušković1 and his presentation of Mijajle Nišin Vučinić, as well as the struggle of the Montenegrins for survival and liberation in the 19th century and the territorial expansion of Montenegro after the decisions of the Congress of Berlin in 1878.

PRIKAZI

• Saša Knežević, Srđa Martinović: „GENERALI KNJAŽEVINE I KRALJEVINE CRNE GORE“, Fakultet za crnogorski jezik i književnost, Cetinje 2016, 127-128  DOWNLOAD
• Vukajlo Gluščević, Dr Branislav Marović, KOMUNISTI CRNE GORE I CRNOGORSKO NACIONALNO PITANJE 1919 – 1989, Centar za Geopolitiku Filozofskog fakulteta, Nikšić, 2017, 129-136  DOWNLOAD

• Riječ redakcije. Parola della redazione. Editorial Board Statement, 7-12   DOWNLOAD
• Radoslav RASPOPOVIĆ, Pozdravna riječ, 13-15   DOWNLOAD
• Uvodni govor prof. dr Antuna SBUTEGE, ambasadora Crne Gore pri Svetoj stolici i pri Suverenom viteškom malteškom redu, na otvaranju međunarodnog naučnog skupa „Jadranski korijeni. Neizbrisivi istorijsko-kulturni temelji jedinstva“ u Kotoru 2012. godine, 17-21    DOWNLOAD
• Adolfo MORGANTI, Il discorso inaugurale, 23-26    DOWNLOAD

ČLANCI

• Nevenka BOGOJEVIĆ-GLUŠČEVIĆ, Affari legali veneziani a Cattaro nel xiv secolo, 27-52    DOWNLOAD

Abstract: Based on archival material, the author addresses the issue of the presence and possible influence of the Venetians on the legal and economic life of the 14th century Kotor. Special attention has been paid to their legal influence, overseas wholesale trade, healthcare and crafts in the city. The study has been divided into seven sections. The first two sections following the introduction examine the legal impact that the Venetian notaries performing this service in Kotor could have had on the creation of medieval Kotor statutory law. Since they were educated at Italian universities from which they had knowledge of the rules on the received Roman law and legal standards of notarial documents and their significance, it is important to examine the degree of this influence in terms of both normativity and application. The fourth section deals with the contribution of Venetian merchants to the economic power of the town, which was, among other things, based on the overseas wholesale trade with influential Venetian trading families, thanks to which Kotor was known as one of the most important ports in the east Adriatic. The fifth part features an analysis of numerous contracts shedding light on the private practice of Venetian doctors, notaries, and craftsmen and their contribution to life in general in the town. Section 6 deals with an analysis of litigations conducted in Kotor concerning failure to comply with contractual obligations to Venetians and explains them in the context of the application of ius commune, which was the legal basis for all statutory rights of the medieval communes in the Mediterranean.

• Jadranka NERALIĆ, Svi papini ljudi: dalmatinska biskupska sjedišta u 15. stoljeću između Rima i Venecije, 53-82    DOWNLOAD

Abstract: In the introductory chapter the author shortly reviewed canon law rules which defined and regulated the episcopal elections in the period from the 11th to the end of the 14th century. A number of biographies of clerics whose promotion to the top of the ecclesiastical career (episcopal election) on the territory of Venetian Dalmatia, illustrate the system of papal provision as well as the influence the Venetian Senate had on their career formation and the episcopal election. The older Croatian scholarship asserted that by electing candidates who would be favourable to its governement, the Venetian Republic had influenced the episcopal appointments in Dalmatian dioceses from the early 1420s, when it took over the dominion over the Eastern Adriatic coast. However, the process of episcopal appointments went rather slowly and gradually, following the strict canon law rules. Documents kept in the Vatican Secret Archives indicate that the popes widely used their right of provision based on canon law rules to appoint „their men“ and decidedly refused proposals coming from the Venetian Senate. Indeed, out of 63 bishops appointed in the nine Dalmatian dioceses under Venetian dominion, 46 were prelates of Venetian orgin, coming either from Venice or the Veneto region, whereas only seven of them came from the Papal State. On the other hand, bishops of Dalmatian origin were only 17.

• Francesco Mario AGNOLI, Considerazioni sul provveditorato generale di Alvise Foscari in Dalmazia e Albania (1777-1780), 83-110   DOWNLOAD

Abstract: The 126 dispatches sent from Zara to Venice by Alvise Foscari, general Superintendent in Dalmatia and Albania, during his mandate (1777-1780) do not contain, at a time of apparent calm in the Adriatic and the Balkans, references to events of “great politics”. However, they represent a wealth of information particularly illuminating because they are coming from a Venetian nobleman in charge of the government of his overseas subjects, on the relationship between the Capital and the Provinces of the Dominio da Mar and the state of health of the Republic in the last twenty years of his glorious existence.

• Radoslav RASPOPOVIĆ, Istočna obala Jadrana od mira u Kampoformiju do Bečkog Kongresa, 111-141    DOWNLOAD

ABSTRACT: After the Treaty of Campo Formio, under the influence of the ideas of the French Revolution, national liberation-type movements emerged on the East Adriatic coast. Their influence can be seen regarding the circumstances in the Bay of Kotor and its relations with Montenegro. They also resulted in attempts at implementing the idea of unification, but also of national liberation on the wider territory of the East Adriatic.

• Dragana KUJOVIĆ, Orijentano-islamsko nasljeđe u Crnoj Gori između religijskog predznaka, nevidljivosti i identitetske posebnosti u multikulturnom kontekstu: pisana građa na orijentalnim jezicima u arhivu odbora Islamske Zajednice u Baru – od evidentiranja do pokušaja vrednovanja, 143-166   DOWNLOAD

Abstract: We believe that the estimate of a manuscript can never be final and out of context, especially if we take into account the manuscript as a part of the cultural heritage of the country and the people. The manuscript may have its auction price, to be purchased or sold, but the elements that make it into the historical testimony are not included in the auction description or inventory, and can not be expressed in monetary terms.

• Maja KATUŠIĆ, Migracijski procesi zaleđe-grad: useljenici iz Crne Gore u katoličkim matičnim knjigama Kotora 18. stoljeća, 167-183    DOWNLOAD

Abstract: The central theme of the paper is to study the migration processes in Kotor in the 18th century. The emphasis was on the share of immigrants from Montenegro’s hinterland into Kotor. The research was based on the analysis of the original archival material from the Bishop’s Archives in Kotor, the books of the Church of St. Tryphon. By inspecting the above mentioned material, the time span of the census, the ways of identification, and the gender and professional structure of the immigrants are presented and analyzed. Finally, the share of Montenegrin immigrants in each book of births (births, weddings and deaths) is analyzed, with an emphasis on displaying topics from the social everyday life of the population.

• Roberto VALLE, Dall’altra riva: Niccolò Tommaseo e la koinè adriatica, 185-195    DOWNLOAD

ABSTRACT: Staying on the other shore of ‘exile’ Niccolò Tommaseo affirms the irreducible otherness and polyphony of the Adriatic koinè, as a floating territory between southern Slavs and Italians. This territory can not be inhabited by those who are rooted in one language and in one nation. Tommaseo stated that the time of the queens and masters of the universe – like that of revolutionary France- had passed, even because of the polycentrism and polyphony of the European civilization. Indeed, European civilization is a set of various civilizations which constist of a „discordant diversity” and an „harmonic variety” put together in one civilization. KEY WORDS: Niccolò Tommaseo, Adriatic koinè, Dalmatia, Italians and Slavs, polycentric and polyphonic civilization

• Aleksandar JOKSIMOVIĆ, Ribarstvo u Boki kroz vjekove (XIX-XXI) – istorija, tradicija, način življenja, 197-205    DOWNLOAD

ABSTRACT: In the Boka Kotorska Bay, fishing is one of the oldest occupations, based on the coastal lifestyle of its inhabitants. Unfortunately, few documents detailing the fishery traditions have been preserved, and oral traditions can be dated back only to the 19th century. The fishing net has been a key invention in fisheries. It is made up of netting of varying mesh size, formed by knotting of the threads. Besides the fishing net, the fishing boat is an essential tool in fisheries. Depending on the type of fisheries, various types of gear were used — fishing nets (gillnets, trammel nets, beach seines, purse seines and towed nets), long–lines (set or drifting), harpoon, pots and traps.

• Luka I. MILUNOVIĆ, Pogled na Trst u miljeu crnogorskoga glumišta od Njegoševa vremena do kraja 19. stoljeća, 207-228    DOWNLOAD

Abstract: Strengthening economic and political ties with Trieste opened during the 19 century, the possibility of a combination of the impact on life in Montenegro. In this paper, we follow the contacts and sphere of influence in Montenegrin Performing Arts.

• Alberto BECHERELLI, Andrea CARTENY, La questione montenegrina alla Conferenza della Pace di Parigi, 229-246   DOWNLOAD

Abstract: The Archive of the Historical Office of the Italian Army General Staff in Rome contains reports (fonds E-8, Inter-Allied Commissions at the Paris Peace Conference, Montenegro) about the Montenegrin issue at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. These documents give details about Montenegrin aspirations for independence at the end of WWI, after the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. During the Conference and the following years, the Inter-allied Commissions had the task to draw up new boundaries of the states and supervise the application of economic and military conditions. As a consequence, the Italian military representatives, who were in charge of these tasks, were involved in the political and diplomatic events of those countries.

• Dragana KUJOVIĆ, Udžbenici na orijentalnim jezicima u arhivskim i muzejskim fondovima Crne Gore – Porijeklo prisustva, uloga i značaj orijentalno – islamske pismenosti u sveukupnom kulturnom životu crnogorskog društva, 7 – 35   DOWNLOAD

Abstract: A textbook is qualified as a pattern of a culture and a powerful cultural product that represents a special medium of the whole intellectual development of a child, his identity formation and development of the system of values. Manuscripts in oriental languages in Montenegro, as well as in areas that are in the neighborhood were under Ottoman rule, were created by local people, or as a part of regular school duties, or as a special expression of love toward the written word. The value of textbooks in oriental languages, manuscripts or printed books, can be evaluated by their importance as a historical testimony or by all elements taken into account in a process of the professional evaluating of a manuscript or old printed books. 

• Dragi MALIKOVIĆ, Kreditno poslovanje između Dubrovnika i Kotora tokom XIV i XV vijeka, 37 – 61  DOWNLOAD

Abstract: In the course of the 14th and 15th century there was a constant exchange of skilled workforce between Dubrovnik and Kotor necessary for the normal functioning of the two cities. During the specified period, a number of workers, predominantly qualified ones, including doctors, pharmacists, but also many craftsmen such as jewellers, gunsmiths, stonecutters, left more developed Dubrovnik for Kotor. At the same time, less qualified workers, or uneducated famuli, went to Kotor during the 14th and 15^th century with the intention of gaining appropriate qualifications and education in the city under Srdje. Thanks to their activities, both of these Yugoslav centres, during the specified period, reached a certain level of economic and social development.

• Lovorka ČORALIĆ, Crmničanin Marko Đikanović – Pukovnik mletačkih prekomorskih postrojbi (FANTI OLTRAMARINI), 63 – 86  DOWNLOAD

Abstract: Article deals with the military career and work of Marko Đikanović, a denizen of Crmnica and a colonel of Venetian transmarine infantry units (fanti oltramarini) in the eighteenth century. The article is based on the study and analysis of until now relatively less known sources from the Archivio di Stato di Venezia [State Archive of Venice] and the Državni arhiv u Zadru [State Archive of Zadar]. Based on these sources, the article follows Đikanović’s career and military activity from the time he was captain until his death in the rank of colonel. The article also discusses other military active members of the Đikanović family.

PRILOZI

• Bojan NOVAKOVIĆ, Tragom podataka o nalazu ostave franačkog novca iz Orline kod Nikšića, 87 – 96  DOWNLOAD

Abstract: In this article the author emphasizes the discovery of the Frankish coins’ hoard in Orlina near Nikšić. The hoard contained a jar of the Louis the Pious’ (814-840) silver coins and some unidentified jewellery. Considering the hystorical surroundings which could cause the appearance of this hoard, the author stresses the potential importance of this finding as a way of getting a clearer picture of the situation in the Adriatic hinterland made after the Peace Treaty of Aachen.

• Goran ČUKIĆ, Živina (EPITELIOMA BASOCELLULARE) 1484. godina (paganstvo, sloboda ili…), 97 – 111  DOWNLOAD

Abstract: The article deals with tradition of the folk name “zivina” (“poultry”), being used for clinical picture of Basal cell carcinoma. In Cetinje chronicle is noticed clinical picture of Basal cell carcinoma (Epitelioma basocellulare). The notice was written by Ivan Crnojevic in 1484. Explanation of appearance of illness is theological as much as it is biological. It appeared «multi causative »: a) as a damnation appeared by touching “the holy object», border stone, and the actor was by that sinful; b) the illness appearance by sparkling of border stone while its breaking. The name has been in use for almost five centuries.

• Zvezdana VUŠOVIĆ-LUČIĆ, Sjekire iz praistorije u Zavičajnom muzeju Nikšić,113 – 122  DOWNLOAD

Abstract: The County Museum Nikšić is hosting the exhibition of the axes dating back to the prehistoric periods of Mesolithic, Neolithic, Eneolithic, Early Bronze Age and Late Bronze Age. Those axes were used as tools, weapons, or as items of special use.