Britanska diplomatija i sudbina Podgorice u velikoj istočnoj krizi (1875 - 1878)
British Diplomacy and the Fate of Podgorica in the Great Eastern Crisis (1875 - 1878)

Summary/Abstract: The aftermath of the war which Ottoman empire waged with Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgarian rebels and various proxies, which culminated with Russo - Ottoman war (1877-1878) led to major territorial losses on behalf of Ottomans. Prior to those results, British diplomatic service carved a various territorial concession plans which would bring hostilities on Montenegrin and Ottoman frontiers to a close. This plans were made on studious examinations of terrain, its natural characteristics and peoples which inhabited it. It also followed a line of ethnic separation which they find vital in stoping various borderland clashes and uprisings which in a past were difficult to quell and proved costly for Ottoman authorities. By close examination of those propositions on example of border rectification on the side of Podgorica and vilayet of Shkoder, we could see that major territorial changes brought later by the Treaty of Berlin, in most cases followed this propositions made more than a year before congress in Berlin was even envisioned.

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