Montenegrins are a South Slavic ethnic group that share a common Montenegrin culture, history, and language, identified with the country of Montenegro. See more

In the 2011 census, around 280,000 or 44.98% of the population of Montenegro identified themselves as ethnic Montenegrins, while around 180,000 or 28.73% identified … See more

Most Montenegrins are Eastern Orthodox. According to the census of 2011, people that declared Montenegrin as their ethnicity declared the following religious identity: See more

According to one triple analysis – autosomal, mitochondrial and paternal — of available data from large-scale studies on Balto-Slavs and their proximal populations, the whole genome See more

Middle Ages
Slavs settled in the Balkans during the 6th and 7th centuries. According to De Administrando Imperio, … See more

Montenegrins speak Montenegrin, an Ijekavian variant of the Shtokavian dialect of the pluricentric Serbo-Croatian language. Neo-shtokavian Eastern-Herzegovinian sub-dialect is spoken in the North-West (largest city Nikšić), and old shtokavian Zeta sub-dialect is … See more

The most important dimension of Montenegrins' culture is the ethical ideal of Čojstvo i junaštvo, roughly translated as "Chivalry and … See more