Montenegrin referendum

[freek]

Looks as if ethic Albanians carried Crna Gora to independence. What do they call Montenegro in Albanian?

According to wikipedia: Mali i Zi. I assume that means "Black mountain" in Albanian. .

http://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia_dhe_Mali_i_Zi

[ag]

Looks as if ethic Albanians carried Crna Gora to independence. What do they call Montenegro in Albanian?

According to wikipedia: Mali i Zi. I assume that means "Black mountain" in Albanian. .

http://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia_dhe_Mali_i_Zi

Yep. I was actually nerdy enough to have found it in an Albanian dictionary.

[Hatman 🍁]

What form of government will they choose? Are there any plans for a restoration?

I assume that it'll be the same form of government they have now...

Montenegro has been quasi-independent for some time and the referendum probably just formalized it. Well, they will have their own national soccer team now, but aside form this it won't make much difference.

Or are there plans to scrap their current constitution?

What happens to the national soccer team now? 

It'll remain one until after the 2008 Euros, since the draw for the qualification groups for that is already past. There are two Montenegrins on Serbia-M's 23 member squad for the World Cup.

Couldn't they just put Montenegro in a different group? As I understand it, SCG is in a group with one more country than all the others.

[minionofmidas]

What form of government will they choose? Are there any plans for a restoration?

I assume that it'll be the same form of government they have now...

Montenegro has been quasi-independent for some time and the referendum probably just formalized it. Well, they will have their own national soccer team now, but aside form this it won't make much difference.

Or are there plans to scrap their current constitution?

What happens to the national soccer team now? 

It'll remain one until after the 2008 Euros, since the draw for the qualification groups for that is already past. There are two Montenegrins on Serbia-M's 23 member squad for the World Cup.

Couldn't they just put Montenegro in a different group? As I understand it, SCG is in a group with one more country than all the others.

Well the filing deadline, obviously, was even before that.

[WMS]

And the mapmakers of the world can rejoice, because now they have a reason to sell new atlai.

Atlantes.

Oh fine then.

Not only Albanians, but also Slavic Muslims, methinks.

Both of these groups voting for Montenegrin independence makes perfect sense to me.

[ilikeverin]

Noooooooooooooo, East Timor isn't the newest country in the world any more

[Jens]

Noooooooooooooo, East Timor isn't the newest country in the world any more

Montenegro is a old country regaining independence, not a new country

[Angel of Death]

Next stop: Vojvodina

[Middle-aged Europe]

Next stop: Vojvodina

Uh, ethnic composition of Vojvodina...

Serbs: 65.05%
Hungarians: 14.28%
Slovaks: 2.79%
Croats: 2.78%
Yugoslavs: 2.45%
Montenegrins: 1.75%
Romanians: 1.5%
Roma: 1.43%
Others: 7.97%

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

They declared themselves independent on the 3rd.  So far only one country has recognized them, but it's Iceland (which recognized them yesterday), which is tops in a number of desireable statistics such as freedom of the press.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro

[minionofmidas]

Everybody else will once the legal problems are sorted out.