Realm · approximate borders · 1697–1852

Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro

Theocracy of the Orthodox metropolitans of Cetinje, hereditary in the Petrović-Njegoš family from Danilo I (1697). Nominally Ottoman, it was effectively independent in its mountains (Old Montenegro: the Katun, Rijeka, Crmnica and Lješanska districts) between Venetian Kotor and Budva and the Ottoman lowlands of Podgorica and Spuž.

Source: Wikipedia 'Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro'. After Petar I defeated the pasha of Shkodër at Martinići and Krusi (1796), the Brda tribes (Bjelopavlići, Piperi and part of the Kuči) joined Montenegro, which Petar II Njegoš gave a senate and courts; Danilo II secularised the state as a principality in 1852. Podgorica and Spuž stayed Ottoman. Sources: Wikipedia 'Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro', 'Battle of Krusi'.

See Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro on the map in 1797

On the map: 1697–1852
Capital: Cetinje

Rulers named in the sources

Danilo I 1697–1735
Sava Petrović 1735–1781
Vasilije Petrović 1750–1766 (co-ruler)
Petar I Petrović-Njegoš 1784–1830
Petar II Petrović-Njegoš 1830–1851
Danilo II 1851–1852

Eastern European states, 82 BC – 1952

States of central-eastern and south-eastern Europe, the Baltic and the north-western Caucasus: Burebista's and Decebalus' Dacia, the principality of Abasgia, Rus' Tmutarakan, Circassia until the Russian conquest of 1864, the Emirate of Bari, the Albanian principalities of Arbanon and the Thopia and Skanderbeg's League of Lezhë, Zeta under the Balšići and Crnojevići, Lombard Negroponte, Acciaioli Athens, the Livonian prince-bishoprics of Riga and Ösel–Wiek, the prince-bishops of Montenegro, the wartime Slovak Republic and post-war Poland before 1953. Few of these frontiers were ever surveyed.