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THE BALKANS
Edited By
Abidin TEMİZER
Lyon 2020
Editor • Assoc. Prof. Abidin Temizer, Ph.D.
Published by Livre de Lyon • © 2020, Lyon
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CONTENTS
Preface…………………………………………………...I
Contents………………………………………………..III
Referee Board…………………………………………..V
Božidar Jezernik
The Clash Between Mıllet and Natıon in The Balkan
Penınsula………………………………………………..1
Abidin Termizer
Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš's Efforts to Nationalize
Montenegro and His Obstacles……………...................33
Tuğrul Özcan
The Nascency of Bulgarian National Identity from
Autonomy to Independence (1878-1908)……………....45
Wojciech SZCZEPAŃSKI
Local Conflicts Between Albanians and Serbs in The
European Part of Turkey at The Turn of The 19th and 20th
Century-The Basis of Political Aspirations………………79
Hasan Babacan
Malisor Rebellion and the Attitude of the Ottoman
Empire…..….…………………………………………..99
Cristian Sandache
The Yugoslav Space and The Issue of The Relations
Between Croatia and Serbia (1918-1945). Some
Sequences ….…………………………………………117
NIKOLA I PETROVIĆ-NJEGOŠ'S EFFORTS
TO NATIONALIZE MONTENEGRO AND HIS
OBSTACLES
Abidin TEMİZER
(Assoc. Prof. Ph.D.); Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University,
Faculty Arts and Sciences Department of History, Burdur,
Turkey. E-mail: abitem@gmail.com
1
Siniša Maleševič and Gordana Uzelac, “A Nation-state without
the nation? The trajectories of nation-formation in Montenegro”,
Nations and Nationalism, 13 (4), 2007, p.695-716.
34 | Nikola I Efforts to Nationalize Montenegro
2
Michael Palairet, Balkan Ekonomileri, 1800–1914,
Kalkınmasız, Sabancı Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul 2000, p.
35, 206.
3
Šerbo Rastoder, Bošnjaci/Muslimani Crne Gore İzmedu
Prošlosti i Sadašnjosti, Almanah, Podgorica 2010, p.14.
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4
Directorate of State Archives Ottoman Archives (İstanbul)
(BOA), Y. E.E, 46/65, Date: 27/N/1304 (21 April 1887); BOA.
İ. DH, 7758, Date: 9/C/1303 (15 March 1886).
5
BOA. Y. PRK. ASK, 32/37, Date: 26/N/1303 (30 April 1886)
6
BOA, İ. DH, 1268/99717, Date: 8/Ş/1309 (07 March 1892);
BOA. Y. PRK. DH, 7/44, Date:25/N/1311 (01 April 1894).
7
BOA. Y. PRK. DH, 7/44, Date:25/N/1311 (1 April 1894).
8
Bajro Agović, Od Mekteba Do Medrese, Mešihat İslamske
Zajednice u Crnoj Gori, Podgorica 2012, p.70.
36 | Nikola I Efforts to Nationalize Montenegro
9
Zuzana Poláčková; Pieter van Duin, “Montenegro Old and
New: History, Politics, Culture, and the People”, Studia Politica
Slovaca, V.6, Issue.1, 2013, p.70.
10
Abidin Temizer ““Karadağ’da Öteki Sorunu: Müslümanlar
(1878-1913)”, History Studies, Volume 5 Issue 3, p. 223-240,
May 2013.”, p.227-231; Bajro Agović, ibid, p.70; Abidin
Temizer ““Karadağ’da Öteki Sorunu: Müslümanlar (1878-
1913)”, History Studies, Volume 5 Issue 3, p. 223-240, May
2013.”, p.227-231.
Abidin Temizer | 37
11
Abidin Temizer, “ibid.", s.223-224; Šerbo Rastoder,
"Karadağ'dan Müslüman Göçleri, 1878'den Günümüze Kısa Bir
Tarih Denemesi", Muhacirlerin İzinde, Derleyen: Hayri
Kolaşinli, Lotus Yayınları, Ankara 2004, p.85-98.
38 | Nikola I Efforts to Nationalize Montenegro
12
Hans Kohn, The Idea of Nationalism: A Study in Its Origins
and Background, Transaction Publishers, 2005; Elie Kedourie,
Nationalism, Wiley-Blackwell, 1993; Liah Greenfeld,
Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, Harvard University
Press, 1993.
13
Fotis Mavromatidis and Jeremy Leaman, German Influence in
the Western Balkans: Hegemony by Design or by Default?”,
DEBATTE, Volume 16, Number 1, Aprıl 2008, p.5-26.
14
BOA., HR. SYS, Dosya No: 839, Gömlek No:2.
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15
Siniša Maleševič and Gordana Uzelac, “ibid.”, p.700
16
Srđa Pavlović, “Who are Montenegrins? Statehood, identity,
and civic society”, Montenegro in Transition Problems of
Identity and Statehood, Florian Bieber (ed.), Nomos
Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2003, p.84.
17
Abidin Temizer, "ibid", p.237-238..
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18
Srđa Pavlović, “ibid.”, p.85-88.
Abidin Temizer | 41
Bibliography
Directorate of State Archives Ottoman Archives
(İstanbul) (BOA)
BOA. Y. E.E, 46/65, Tarih: 27/N/1304 (21 Nisan
1887); BOA. İ. DH, 7758, Tarih: 9/C/1303 (15
Mart 1886).
BOA. Y. PRK. ASK, 32/37, Tarih: 26/N/1303 (30
Nisan 1886)
BOA, İ. DH, 1268/99717, Tarih: 8/Ş/1309 (07 Mart
1892); BOA. Y. PRK. DH, 7/44,
Tarih:25/N/1311 (01 Nisan 1894).
BOA. Y. PRK. DH, 7/44, Tarih:25/N/1311 ( 1 Nisan
1894).
BOA, HR. SYS, Dosya No: 839, Gömlek No:2.
Literature
Agović, Bajro, Od Mekteba Do Medrese, Mešihat
İslamske Zajednice u Crnoj Gori, Podgorica 2012.
Greenfeld, Liah, Nationalism: Five Roads to
Modernity, Harvard University Press, 1993.
Kedourie, Elie, Nationalism, Wiley-Blackwell, 1993.
Kohn, Hans, The Idea of Nationalism: A Study in Its
Origins and Background, Transaction Publishers,
2005.
Maleševič, Siniša and Uzelac, Gordana, “A Nation-
42 | Nikola I Efforts to Nationalize Montenegro
Abstract
In this study, the national state model that the
King of Montenegro Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš
wanted to create was discussed. In this context,
the policy pursued by Nikola I was analyzed, and
the reasons for its failure were emphasized.
As a source, documents and literature in the
Directorate of State Archives Ottoman Archives
were used.
Keywords: Montenegro, nationalism, Nikola I
Petrović-Njegoš, identity