You forgot that allegedly a Japanese samurai wanted to sword fight someone from the Russian army one on one and they didn't know who to send so they sent a Montenegrin guy and he won and killed the samurai

How can technicalities be so brilliant and stupid at the same time ?

there were Albanian volunteers also in the russian turkish war thats why queen Catherine gave Albanians lands in karakurt in ukraine and today you have an albanian minority in ukraine

We will Never forgive the Japanese ! As far as my grampa is concerned - it's still ON

@@speeddemon8977 Absolutely. They still live in Ukraine... and refuse to speak Ukrainian. Only Russian and Albanian. There is a long clip here made by a crew from Kosovo.

LITERALLY Reminds me of that meme "China is the Japan of Asia"

Original term was 'Srpska Sparta' (Serbian Sparta) because Montenegro actually used to be literally Serbian state in history. After WW2 and communist revolution Serbian country eventually dissolved and emerged a brand new Montenegrin nation. wiki/Kingdom_of_Montenegro wiki/Petrović-Njegoš wiki/Gorski Vijenac Also saying Russia invaded Montenegro is totally deluded because Montenegro actually wants Russia. Since the beginning of modern Montenegrin state their leaders always relied on Russia and admired Russia and Tsar. Read any Montenegrin history book. Edit: even during communist period Montenegro supported Stalin and Soviet Union, and not Tito. They always supported Russia in any form so it's totally delusional to say Russia invaded Montenegro lol. They just want them. Russians have been on Montenegrin coast for 20 years at minimum.

"Berlin, the Paris of Europe."

​@@matija5134 Montenegro has Serb minority but it can never be said we're all Serbs. Montenegro is a separate country from both Serbia and Russia. And yes, the reason we were considered a Serb state for many centuries is because our rulers were Serbs themselves. And to remind you that no Montenegrin wants Russia; if we wanted them we wouldn't impose sanctions. Neće crnogorci Rusiju oće Srbi. Pričaj u svoje ime burazeru, nemoj ove strance da manipulišeš.

And the term "Serbian Sparta' was used by Serb extremists who lived in Montenegro and wanted desperately to keep Serbian influence (along with Russian) here when we were switching to the west world. So you using that term kinda tells a lot about from where you come.

You have a Muslim name so are unlikely typical

@@mitchyoung93 20% is quite typical

​@mitchyoung93 we have large population of muslims boskians and albanians who settled here running away from persecution,because we are mostly chill about nationality or religion

​@@thundergod4242There is 15% of Albanians and Bosniaks and 37% of Serbs 😂so they aint even close to Serbs 😂😂😂

​@@mensurhamzic519915% of muslims and almost 40% of Serbs 😂😂😂

I personally prefer Kotor 2.

I went this year, honestly found it to be too hectic and too many tourists, and this was in May! Sadly it's no longer a hidden spot and it doesn't have the infrastructure for the tourism now coming through there. I was glad we chose to stay further round the bay and only did a day trip there, we didn't even stay for dinner.

​@InquisitorThomas The Montenegrin city is the third installment we never got. Never seen this this many NPCs in a single town, although I have to say they were giving me funny looks whenever I asked them for a side quest to farm some XP.

Kotor's neighbourhood is nice, but the traffic jams on the roads are a plague. When I was there, the tunnel to Kotor was jammed, with no information about what happened, so we finally turned back (in the tunnel) and took the mountain road. That was off season, I prefer not to imagine how it looks like during high season.

@@Serendip98 yeah traffic was awful in Kotor, but there's literally nothing they can do with how steep the mountains etc are. Only solution is to remove cars as much as possible. We took a bus back in the afternoon and was stuck in Kotor for probably 20-30 minutes before actually getting moving.

with russians going there it's just a matter of time time before it turns into a shithole.

By what exactly? WE love russians

Montenegro people has Russia in hearts

What does it mean montenegrin😅😅😅.

Imaš li ti Krsnu Slavu.Samo Srbi od svih Pravoslavnih Hrišćana imaju Krsnu Slavu.Ako nisi Pravoslavac,izvini.

Thank you :)

@@63Vaso Montenegrin = Crnogorac ili crnogorski jezik. Nijesam vjeran pa nemam dobro znanje o slavama :).

​@@thenoob6638on je englez. prica eng pa nemoze razumit scae crnogorac

It's a really nice country and we enjoyed it. Herceg-Novi was where we stayed and preferred it to when we went to Kotor for a day. Depending on where you're staying, if you have the opportunity to hop over the border to Bosnia (like Trebinje) or Tirana in Albania you won't regret it. The region is amazing and we found the people of Bosnia and Albania to be a bit warmer than Montenegro.

thank you! 😃

They used to say Mother Russia so how can they be against?!

The eec didn't bring peace. NATO did. The eu actually supported the coup against the democratically elected government of Ukraine, in an attempt to incorporate Ukraine into the eu sphere before fully absorbing it. The eu is nothing but an anti democratic, expansionist empire, that directly contributed the main reason for Putin to Invade Ukraine in 2014... Own it. That's on you and your beloved eu!

Es mejor que abran los ojos Porque estamos cada día peor "La paz que trajo y que ha mantenido"

It’s crazy to think about that now it’s unthinkable for France Germany and Britain to be enemies, while only less then a century ago they were. We’ve come very far for such a short time.

The EC created peace in Europe, the EU is now destroying its constituent nations.

@@beepboopbeeppwell the real enemy was the Soviet Union AKA Russia, even general Patton said so

yes but with the help of geography, Montenegro is mountainous.

@@MarkoJurisic-mc5ve that has nothing to do with mountains, Montenegro has same mountains as Bosnia or Albania and i didnt helped them, and when you are at war it was with swords and one agents other, but the people are fighter and god at organization of them self

@@bijelimedved2983 I have a suspicion that this has something to do with the legend of their being lazy. Free, unenslaved men. living in their mountains and not being forced to work to make Ottoman masters rich, will have looked lazy to Turkish slave-masters.

​@@bijelimedved2983Albania held off the invasion for like 30 years, won a bunch of battles too..no1 fought the Ottomans like Scanderbeg, the Albanian King.

Better trained is mith. Montenegrians lived to kill and fight turks were commoners

There are Albanian city’s like Ulcinj Tivar Kotor Plava and Gucia…🇦🇱🇦🇱 look at the Illyrian kingdom history …yougoslave is created afer the slave invasion at 6th centery… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian_kingdom

Really Montenegro abd Albania shouldnt be ruined by tourism, they are lands of untouched beauty..

That is right breda, we are the lion of europe, we will exile all americans and pfizer enforcers and leave our politicians to perform a gender surgery before church themselves!

Balkan Swiss lol. Nowhere NEAR this level.

Balkan swiss is Slovenia, Montenegro is more like belgium of the balkans 😂

​@@shinkirou3026Your intend of despising Belgium makes no difference to Montenegro, nor Belgium.

@@nnsnumbersandnotesunlimite7368 nope you didn't get what i meant. Like Belgium was invaded by third parties(Germany and France) who were at war. Where do you see the offense and why should i waste my time online, offending people and nations?

literally same happening here, in Georgia

Should have known better before, when giving passoprts and still keeping the money in accounts, and now complaining.... Oh Gosh Cyprus is a huge laundry, no complaining now, you also are the ones who caused all this happening, that was great back then when keeping those money, and now its becoming a problem... Ridiculous

@@obscureentity3421 same thing happening in Turkey too. especially cities like Antalya, Alanya

Awsome content. Ty

same here

For scenery... Awesome... For people... No.

@@frog382 I like the people too, I'm from Slovakia and speak basic language, so that might be why...

@@fotoz2363 I speak exactly their language and that is not an issue, the issue is when you stop at a random restaurant by the road and they make you pay 1 or 2€ to use a shitty toilet, or when you sit beside the beach and they charge you like a michelin star restaurant for some trash. Many more examples from 7 or 8 times ive been there. Overall mentality of the people is leeching out as much as they can from tourists. Its not all bad, there are good people everywhere in the world.

@@frog382 I replied to you with long comment, but Y-tube deleted it, don't feel like rewriting again, anyway you must know it well, since you have been there 7-8 times already and can speak the language. Where do you prefer to spend your summer holidays?

Thanks 🙏

Thank you kindly!

​@@GeoPerspective Montenegrins are not a nation. They are a tribe because they have no national consciousness, but they are aware that they are more different and more special. They are Serbs when it is opportune, conjunctural. If they don't get a director's post in Serbia, they will become fierce Ustasha (Sekula Drljevic). They were Yugoslavs when they liberated Serbia from Serbs "kulaks and class enemies" after WW2 (Milovan Djilas, Jovo Kapicic...) for the sake of slaughter for Serb-devouer Josip Broz Tito. Around 300000 Serbs were killed without having their day in court. Until recently, there were three hundred million of them (together with the Russians) because they wanted Russian investments. Than they became Montenegrins when they figured out that it is now conjunctural, and that they can milk the EU and NATO that way. What more can one say about the guys who call their country Monte Negro in Latin? The day when they freed Serbia from the "brotherly embrace" should be celebrated as Liberation Day.

wasnt tristle majority italian?

Trieste is Italy

I would be more mad about Bosnian coastline...

@@matthewbarabas3052 It was originally mainly Slovene. Many Triestans have Slovene names and Italian surnames, or vice versa

@@utqiagvik1991 Be happy with what you got.

Glad someone enjoys the 4k :D

Actually no, Poland alone has more Ukrainian refugees than Russia, with Germany combine that would be almost 2x more refugees. Source, wikipedia 😅

@@Motofanable kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bdiYfsmkqs2vkXU.html www.cnn.com/2023/04/17/europe/ukrainians-russia-far-east-intl-cmd/index.html#:~:text=The%20United%20Nations%20estimates%20more,made%20it%20back%20to%20Ukraine.

@@Motofanable (what is very strange is that half of the time i search up the number of refugees, wikipedia says 2.8m, the other half it says 900k, but many other sources, like Ukrainians living in Russia say 2.8 million)

7-9 millions of Ukrainian are gone to Russia

​@@MotofanableWikipedia is an extremely biased NATO-adjacent source

There is no such thing as an 'independent' European Union country.

@@mitchyoung93 what it's called English Exceptialist..

I wish N. Macedonia too. Hoping the end is near . Because Bulgaria is ready for War .

​@@voskreglavincevska7080im sure N Macedonia will join the EU in the foreseeable future.

@@blowbert9126 It is very boring to live here any more . People don't understand what Republic is meaning and there is to much offensive statement from all countries that surrounds us because we are small and peacefull country . I don't know what is with young generation of today ! Looking forward to a great territories and great kingdoms to be back !

We were in Podgorica in April and its the only place in Europe where I've seen "Z" Russia graffiti, big letters and on a prominent street too. I know this isn't indicative of anything, but it was there the whole time we were there and wasn't removed. I did also see pro Ukraine graffiti too, and I knows not necessarily indicative of anything. I believe it currently has a lot of Russian and Ukrainian people staying there

@@jascu4251 We were staying around the Kotor bay, which is an overwhelmingly Serbian tourist destination. Surprising lack of English. I've been to quite a few countries and areas in the Balkans and the city we stayed (Herceg Novi) had by far the least English being spoken, even a few restaurants didn't have English menus etc. We do plan to try Podgorica at some point, so will bear that in mind. Though hopefully by the time we go, this whole situation would be over.

@@Wozza365 Podgorica definitely isn't a tourist destination, though thats not necessarily a negative! We found the feel to be very different to, say, Sarajevo, where English is spoken to a high level despite the fact it doesn't really have tourists at all. Unfortunately, I don't see this whole situation ending any time soon, although its still very difficult to predict how it will unfold from here on out

@@jascu4251 thanks for the info, our host in Montenegro recommended it for close access to Skadar/Shkoder lake. Skopje was really high English levels as well, we were really surprised given it doesn't have much ties to the English world. Our taxi driver from the airport was practically fluent and everyone else after that spoke really well. It's strange that Montenegro is behind in English despite its coastline being a big tourist destination for Western Europeans in recent years. But tbh for a beach holiday I'd probably go to Albania, found the people in Tirana far more polite and friendly, even those that didn't speak English

@@Wozza365 Interesting, did you go into Shkoder itself? (the city), and would you recommend as a base?

Yup, I think the same😃

I am not pro Russian but I live in Belgrade and not sure what this statement has to do with similarity with Montenegro situation. Hearing more Russian than native (Serbian language) is a very common thing in big cities. Have you been in NY or LA? They all have parts of the town where you can hardly hear local accent or language. You also have parts however small, they speak Russian too. Also Ukrainian, Chinese, Spanish, Polish etc. And the prices skyrocketed after the covid crises and financial crash in late 2018 which happened in the whole EU just the same. Noting to do with area of the Belgrade speaking Russian only. But here are some things never mention it this very compressed history of Montenegro especially in their modern history: during and after the wars during the breakup of former Yugoslavia West applied heavy sanctions on Yugoslavia while Montenegro was still part of it. So economy went bad in Montenegro (and Serbia and Macedonia) not because less influence of Russia to that region. A breakup from Yugoslavia was not because of the political climate change but pure economical. Montenegro main income was tourism and main income in foreign currency especially in $$$ and DM for the whole Yugoslavia. Sanctions from the west changed this so the prices went south in big steps. In those days Russian oligarchs who were ruling the Russia at the time, saw Montenegro as a perfect place for the holidays. When they came with bags full of money and saw the unspoiled beauty of Montenegro coast and saw the prices, they decided to come back again but not only to enjoy their holidays but to buy off and invest into their own piece of paradise in Montenegro coast. They flooded the Montenegro. Ask anyone on Montenegro´s coast line about this and you will get their own story Russians were buying everything and anything in Montenegro in those days. Also another reason Russians were on spending spree in Montenegro was changes in Russia in late 90s. Since 1999 when Putin came to power he was confronting his oligarchs who were in real power in Russia before him, and as he was winning they had to move their wealth and their businesses elsware and Montenegro was a perfect place. Very close to western Europe yet no restriction for Russian businesses like in western countries. Fun fact: since November 1999 Montenegro declared a dual currency valid in their country. Dinars (Serbian or former Yugoslav currency) and Deutsche mark. There was no EU formed yet so no Euro currency yet. When on 1st of January 2001 it was estimated sufficient amount of Deutsche marks were in circulation, the country decided to take this currency as a sole legal tender from then on. Later in March 2002 after € was born they just switched to € as their legal currency. I remember holidaying in Budva in those years prices in Deutsche marks were higher than the rest of the region and their excuse was the rates of Dinars and Deutsche mark. But at the time when they switched from DM to € the conversion ratio was 2:1. After the change most of the shops removed the DM nomination in front of the price tags and replaced them with € but left the prices the same, so overnight the prices in Montenegro doubled. Yet this did not stop Russians throwing their money at them. But then influence from EU and NATO and also with happenings in neighbouring Serbia scared off those Russians and suddenly they left just as fast as they came. After Montenegro joined NATO with debatable legitimacy there was no more room for Russian oligarch there. What they left behind is huge investments and unfinished business behind. What is worst, as they (Russians) had such enormous buying power they built their properties without proper infrastructure development plans also using their money to corrupt local authorities to allow them to do as they please. Someone said here how Montenegro is untouched nature by tourist. If you had been in pre war 1990s or before in Herceg Novi, Kotor, Budva, Petrovac and all the way to Sutomore (Bar was always a big port rather than attractive tourist place), then you would see how crowded these places are today and NOT untouched by tourists. I think Budva is worst off of all other places as it lost its original charm where Old Town was a main attraction and centre of tourist interest while today it is a place of monster hotels with emphasis on night clubs for youngster generation and rich parents. Not only there is hard to find the parking space but also traffic is collapsing every season. Problems with water supply and sewage discharge every year all result of this unplanned infrastructure built in those years during the "first" Russian tourist invasion. Try to get in and out of Budva by car at the peak of season. The only less spoiled places are inland, but not many of them near the coast line as this video mentioned, they are mostly Rocky with mountains. You have to go to Žabljak to really find unspoiled places. So this "invasion" of Russians since the Ukrainian war is actually a second wave of Russians and first wave of Ukrainian refugees. And when I say Ukrainian refugees I dont mean those who left their homes and running away from the shells and bullets, but those who are moving their properties and wealth from their country and war. And for Russians, since the war started in Ukraine and as it gets longer and longer Russians are getting back to their "old" properties and investments even the Montenegro is now part of the NATO. Thigs are so complex in Montenegro that any generalisation is just showing ignorance of the situation in the region.

@@beograd07 Hvala puno na pojašnjenju. Ja sam rus :)

@@beograd07 sta mi pises eseje. nemam ja problema sa rusima u bgu al ne mozes da kazes da skok u cenama nije zbog rusa. na vracaru dorcolu i starom gradu nema vise gde da se zivi. ne mozes da pijes kafu ispod 500din a o restoranima necu ni da pocnem.

Greek genocide, Armenian genocide...

Dinosaur genocide Elephant Genocide Alien Genocide

We have no interest in taking land that is not even inhabited by Turks and without any geopolitical incentive either but sure go ahead with your fear lingering The Ottoman Empire died in 1922 but your fears of it remain ever since 1299

@@ekn_38 Have you noticed that Erdogan is cut from the same cloth as Putin? Why exactly is Turkey occupying parts of Syria at this very moment and has bitten off increasingly large chunks on Northern Syria since 2016? Even though it has been condemned by every member of UN security council?

​@ekn_3852 Why are u still occupying what should be Kurdistan?

Ok I recommend you going to south coastal Montenegro. Even we in the north go there. Also Russians and pro-russian serb politicians usually all live there. Though you will find more beautiful land and people of clearer mind here in the north.

Serbia is full of Russians and with regular flights between Moscow and Belgrade very easy if you can get out

Montenegro is not cheap. Albania and rural Serbia are cheaper

Montenegro is beautiful..try Serbia too...Kotor in Montenegro is my favorite

If you ever wanna come to Montenegro, you're always welcome! 🇲🇪❤️🇷🇺❤️🇺🇦

Lol me too😂

Actual term was Serbian sparta

You're aware that all Spartan warriors were homosexuals, right?

@@ValkarinNS Did you know that the red blood cells don't have anything inside pretty much, they just carry oxygen.

That’s why spartan were iliro Albanian

Rumenia was part of Otomans work a lognt time.

Except Wallachia, and everything south of the Carpathians...

Spasiba my friend, love form 🇷🇺❤🇲🇪🇺🇦

Many thanks! On my side I have three home countries, so we are just on vacation. We traveled all the Yugoslavia since 1978 and always the best experience. Even in areas which aren't Slavonic. My biggest complaint: I can't use a car with American or Russian plates because Serbian borderline insurance is ridiculously expensive: over 1000 Euro / year. So if I have to drive that car I have to drive only via Croatia.

Maybe Albanian mothers didn't pick up the Montenegrin custom of "You eat those rocks if you wanna grow tall, young man!"?

Albanians in Kosovo are tall. It’s Albanians from Albania that are short.

@@yarpen26 haha, but what i meant was that those minerals trickle into the crops, and so most balkan people grow so tall

They must get a lot of kidney stones too then. I live in the SE US, lots of limestone here. Not a lot of tall ones here but we have a lot of kidney stones.

People in Podgorica are so handsome and tall . I didn't know that it is from limestone ! Real Albanians are like Maltese people . I was very surprised .

you know I always preferred the Galleria Umberto over the Galleria VIttorio Emmanuele >grin>. I visited Milano and was treated very rudely if anyone learned I was merely stationed in Naples, not even an actual Napoletano. That didnt help my opinion of that area >.< #LogicFail

Ulqin*

​@@suadkraja7682why albanians need to steer shit even when there IS cohabitation and peace its ulcinj while you are in montenegro if one day you have thé control of the territory it will be ulqin ok?

He said 'current' home town. Since he mispronounced Crna Gora...its Ts not Ch at the start, he probably isn't from there.

@@mitchyoung93 İ see. İn many languages it's not unusual to have variations, which are not necessarily regional or social, but individual. Germany's exchancellor Angela Merkel for example has a certain way of pronouncing some letters that you can recognize her pretty much immediately after saying a sentence. Let's embrace the diversity in speech and accents. 😊

Perast.

@@bijelimedved2983 Thanks!

at the moment

The brutal/bitter legacy of Slobodan Milsoevic (and his Bosnian cronies Mladic/Karadzic) will poison the area for many decades to come sadly.

Crna Gora!!!🇲🇪❤️

He literally said their parliament voted unanimously to join nato. You know, the jobs that the people voted on to represent them?

@@xELITExKILLAx This is the beauty of representational democracy, you don't have to be democratic.

@@xELITExKILLAx Good job, you managed to get to the root of the problem. Politicians did what they wanted on their own.

@@xELITExKILLAx He "literally" never said the word "unanimously" you clown. There weren't 46 members in Parliament, there were 81. He specifically said the opposition protested the vote. So the other 35 probably walked out. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Not really, Montenegrins are ok with cooperating with NATO as long as they can have their independence

I did it! I did it! Not with my hands, but with something else. Just for Sweden. ;-) I am Russian. My parents immigrated to Europe eons ago. Than I married and we immigrated to United States - eons ago. Than we immigrated back, to EU. With three kids. They are of Russian origin - but with American and EU passport. Two of my kids live in Sweden, as engineers. One of them working on his PhD. And because they have EU passports as well, they are not immigrants. Now I am working to get my Russian citizenship back. So they will be Russians. One of them is in a very serious relationship with a girl from Sweden. Hopefully one day there could be even better news... regarding population increase. The only way to actively, but peacefully combat illegal immigration, ROFL.

this is what I was referring to, about 8k applied for temporary protection which is in line with your numbers: www.unhcr.org/see/15403-a-year-of-the-conflict-in-ukraine-montenegro-continues-to-stand-with-the-people-forced-to-flee-by-extending-temporary-protection-until-march-2024.html

@@GeoPerspective the information in the video is misleading then

fair

I confess, your correct

Something tells me that someone who goes by alexandartheserb might be slightly biased in favor of serbia. 🤔

@@wisehippo3072 It depedns what you see as Serbia. If you accept globalist Deep State borders, then it might look as you think. But actually it is not true because most of my ancestors were not from current Serbia but from Dinaric region (Bosnia, Dalmatia, Dubrovnik region, Old Herzegovina (viz. 1/3 of modern Montenegro)). And we are natives there before any identity such as Montengro, Croatia, Albania... was even invented. But foreign empires support those loyal identities, while Serbian identity means independent, united Balkan for their own people. Thats the point

Kosovo should then also unite with Albania

@@gewisserjemand if World is against Evil and xolonization then north African immigranta of E1b1b should be returned from Kosovo and Albania to their home in north Africa. Otherwise, evil colonisation will prevail

there has been ZERO transparency of information in Russia since Putin first acquired power when Yeltsin stepped down.. He then enlisted the nationalist under Zhirinovsky to slowly take over the Duma etc.. They then rewrote every bit of the western style constitution Gorbachev tried to give them, using Medvedev as a poorly hidden proxy to allow Putin to become president for life. The Muscovite legacy of domination, conquest, oppression lives on worse than ever. At this point Nicholas II looks positively mild. I am fully aware it was Peter the Great who forced everyone under death threat to start calling Muscovy "Rossiya" to strip the historic validity of it away from the Ukrainians, where it began.

bingo

@@GeoPerspective Great video! Was in Kotor last year and thought to myself one way or another this place won't stay a hidden gem for long

Wrong term, it is Serbian Sparta because it is a state with serbian people. Now some are trying to divide us, propaganda. Before nobody was in the delusion that they are separate peoples.

@@karamakate9 could be.

@@HeavyLefty Montenegro is a civil state and Serbian nationalists with the help of Russia want to convert it.

Russia??? No thanks

Why, i am form Montenegro and interested in your answers

@@bijelimedved2983 Russia is a threat to the free World. Not only it's leaders but the society in general. I know there are good people also, but as a whole they have an imperialistic thinking and a despise of human rights. Montenegro wil be much better in the EU.