LUFTA PËR TIVARIN SIPAS SPIRIDON GOPÇEVIQIT
THE FIGHT FOR TIVAT ACCORDING TO SPIRIDON GOPÇEVIQ

Summary/Abstract: Regarding the events developed in the East Crisis period (1875/78), so far, various studies have been published by home and foreign authors. It is known that, due to the geopolitical context of the time, for the Principality of Montenegro the project of the country's independence from the Ottoman Empire was primary, but at the same time of the territorial expansion, aiming to emerge at the sea, where occupational aspirations were also towards the Albanian territories in the west of Vilayet of Shkodra. In this regard, Tivat and its surroundings represent a unique example of research and geopolitical and military analysis of time. Being the westernmost town of Vilayet, it was the arena of a bloody war, becoming a symbol of vandalism and general destruction during the two months of bombing like no other town until that time. Following the development of military operations and the occupation of several territories related to the benefits and territorial expansion of Montenegro with the support of mainly from Russia, it was also discussed at the St. Stephen Conference (3 March 1878) and at the Berlin Congress (13 June 1878 ). They were precisely the decisions of the Great Powers that decided upon their geopolitical interests, legitimizing the beginning of the decomposition of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans in the territorial aspect, bypassing the ethnic principle in the respective territories, where the Albanians suffered the most.

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