1. Montenegro

2. • Capital: Podgorica
• Largest city
• 150.000 citizens

3. Year of entry in the EU
• Montenegro is not a formal member of the
Eurozone
• It’s a EU official candidate

4. Political system
• the president is elected in direct elections
• president's powers:
- representing the state
- promulgating laws
- calling elections for new assembly
- proposing to the Assembly candidates

5. President and Primer Minister
Filip Vujanovic Igor Lukšić

6. Executive Legislative
• The Government is • The Parliament is a 75-seat
responsible for the internal unicameral body.
and external affairs of the • Deputies serve a four-year
republic. term and elect the
• The prime minister directs president
the work of the government • Decisions are made by
majority vote

7. Total area
• land: 102,013,812 sq km
• water: 214 sq km
• Total boundaries : 524km
• border countries: Albania
173 km, Bosnia, 215
km, Croatia 25 km, Serbia
211km
• Coastline: 199 km

8. Population
• 650,000
Ethnicity
• Ethnicity: Montenegrin Montene
267.799 43,16%
62%, other 38% grin
Serbian 198.414 31,99%
• Religions: Orthodox Bosnian 48.184 7,77%
65%, Muslim Albanian 31.163 5,03%
Slaves
19%, Roman Catholic musulma 24.625 3,97%
4%, Protestant ns
Croatia 6.811 1,10%
1%, other 11% Gypsis 2.826 0,46%

9. Currency
• Montenegro has no currency of its own
• After the euro, the Deutsche Mark was the de
facto currency
• Montenegro began using the euro as well.

10. Official lenguages
• Serbian(official), English, Italian, German
• there are groups who claim the Montenegrin
language Serbian as a different one

11. Typical drink
• Red and white wines
• Vranac is the best known

12. Food
• Nothern, Continental
and Mediterranean
• ispod 'under the coals'
• kajmak , yoghurt and
cow's and sheep's
cheese

13. Prsuta Cevapi

14. Traditions
• traditional dance of
Montenegro: the Oro

15. Religion
• Orthodox Christians
(74.24%)
• Sunni Muslims
• (17.74%)
• Catholic Christians
(3.54%)

16. Music and athem
• National anthem: • Folk music:
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17. Geographical features
• Is a small, mountainous
state in south-west
Balkans
• Highest place: Durmitor
mountain 2,523 m

18. • Mediterranean climate:
Wether dry summers, rainy winters
• See level: warmest
temperatures summer:
27 °C
• mountainous regions:
rainfall

19. More relevant information
History
• 1929 Kingdom of Yugoslavia
• annexed it to the Kingdom of Italy (World War II)
• Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia(end World War II)
• 1992 Dissolution of Socialist Yugoslavia :
Serbia and Montenegro
• 2006 Independence
• 2010 EU candidate