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• History

  Ancient historyThe oldest known inhabitants of what is now Montenegro were the Illyrian tribes who were subdued by the Romans in 9AD and then marginalised by the mass immigration of Slavs in the fifth and sixth centuries....

• Statistics

  Population (2011)Montenegro 620,029, Podgorica 156,169 Ethnic composition (2003)Montenegrins 43% Serbs ...

• Lake Skadar

  A short 20km drive or train ride south from Podgorica, Lake Skadar (Skadarsko jezero) is named after the Albanian city of Shkodra (Skadar to Montenegrins) on the opposite shore, and makes for a great daytrip....

• Language

  The locals have recently decided to officially name the language they speak Montenegrin. This is a dialect of Serbian that has been promoted as the national language since independence in 2006, though many locals still declare they simply speak Serbian....

• Purchasing power

  How far does your euro, pound or dollar go?Taxi from airport to city centre    €10Cinema ticket    €3....

• Montenegro basics

  CommunismThe communist era was a dark age for many countries in Europe, but many older people in Montenegro fondly tell stories of how good it was when called each other comrade (druže) and lived in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a country with something to say on the world stage....