Montenegro Gallery

Ostrog Monastery, Montenegro

The Monastery of Ostrog is a monastery of the Serbian Orthodox Church situated against an almost vertical background, in Montenegro. It is dedicated to Saint Basil of Ostrog (Sveti Vasilije OstroA?ki), who is buried here. Ostrog monastery is the most popular pilgrimage place in Montenegro

© 2016 Frans Sellies

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First Balkan War (1912 - 1913) - Hand-to-hand combat

Hand-to-hand combat during the First Balkan War as Greek troops overun a Turkish gun battery. The war lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, pitted the Balkan League (Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, and Bulgaria) against the Ottoman Empire. The combined armies of the Balkan states overcame the numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies, and achieved rapid success. As a result of the war, almost all remaining European territories of the Ottoman Empire were captured and partitioned among the allies, and an independent Albanian state set up. Despite their success, the Balkan states were unsatisfied with the peace settlement, and the tensions among them, with the unifying Ottoman threat gone, would soon result in the Second Balkan War

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10271647

Coat of arms of the European states, lithograph, published 1897

Historical coat of arms the of European states (except Germany): 1) Spain; 2) Russia; 3) Great Britain and Ireland; 4) Netherlands; 5) Italy; 6) Greece; 7) Switzerland; 8) Sweden and Norway; 9) Liechtenstein; 10) Denmark; 11) Montenegro; 12) Luxembourg; 13) Belgium; 14) Monaco; 15) San Marino; 16) Bulgaria; 17) Romania; 18) Portugal; 19) Andorra; 20) Serbia. Lithograph after a drawing by Hugo Gerard Strohl (Austrian heraldist, 1851 - 1919), published in 1897