1921: Start to Fight Serbians

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START TO FIGHT SERBIANS.

 Montenegrins said to have declared a Holy War.

LONDON, Feb, 22, A wireless message from Berlin today says that, according to Swiss reports, the Montenegrins have declared a holy war against the Serbians.

Two Serbian regiments have occupied Cettinje[sic], Montenegro, and the situation is grave, the message says.  

 Published 23rd of February 1921 in the New York Times. 

Thus reads the above news clipping. I was not familiar with this period before reading this news snippet. In the aftermath of the First World War it was decided to build a Kingdom in the Balkans uniting Croats, Serbs and Slovenes, which in 1929 would become known as Yugoslavia. The Montenegrins independent before the war were also absorbed into the Union. It was not a peaceful union, as this report from the New York Times makes clear. 

In 1919, tensions between the pro Serb union and the federalist Montenegrins laid to a failed uprising in Christmas 1919 with clashes continuing into the 20s.

Cover of the Italian weekly La Tribuna Illustrata from 1919, titled "Montenegro against Serbian domination"

 

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