Montenegrin Americans

Montenegrin Americans
Црногорски Американци
Crnogorski Amerikanci
Total population
c. 2,528 (2000)^[1] 24,112 (Montenegrin-born, 2013)^[2]
Regions with significant populations
Alaska, California, Illinois, New York, Louisiana
Languages
English, Montenegrin
Religion
Montenegrin Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Muslim minority
Related ethnic groups
Montenegrins, Montenegrin Canadians

Montenegrin Americans are Americans who are of Montenegrin origin. Montenegrins are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Montenegro.

Concentrations

The first Montenegrins in America lived primarily in Louisiana and other areas along the southern Mississippi River. Most were oyster fishermen, though some operated farms and businesses. A notable Montenegrin immigrant was Stefan Kojnević (Cognevich), who came to Louisiana in the 1830s and purchased a citrus plantation. In the American Civil War, Cognevich formed a militia unit, called the "Cognevich Company", which was composed of Montenegrin and Serb men in Louisiana, and fought for the Confederate States of America.^[3]

Today, these Montenegrins mainly live in the central and eastern United States, much of which is concentrated in New York City and Chicago, and to a lesser extent in Detroit, and recent arrivals from former Yugoslavia in the Los Angeles area.

Montenegrin Americans are found throughout the state of Alaska. About a quarter of all known Montenegrin Americans live in Anchorage. Their presence in Alaska dates back to the gold rushes of the early 20th century. A short-lived newspaper entitled Servian Montenegrin was established at the beginning of 1905 in the town of Douglas, near Juneau.^[4]

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Arts and entertainment

Marina Abramović, performance artist
Savo Radulović, painter

Literature

Elijah Monte Radlovic
Nikola Petanović, writer and philosopher

Film

Milla Jovovich, actress
Ivan Kraljevic, film director

Politics

Michael Anthony Stepovich, former governor of Alaska Territory, 1957-1958 (last appointed governor before statehood).
John Dapcevich, former Mayor of Sitka, Alaska
Marko Dapcevich, most recent former Mayor of Sitka, Alaska
George Perazich, humanitarian

Sports

Nick Delpopolo, US wrestler and Olympic Athlete
Nicholas Delpopolo, judo
Mirsad Huseinovic, soccer player
Novo Bojovic, football player
Žarko Čabarkapa, NBA player
Predrag Drobnjak, NBA player
Slavko Vraneš, NBA player
Nikola Mirotić, NBA player
Nikola Peković, NBA player
Nikola Vučević, NBA player
Halil Kanacević, basketball player in Europe

Fictional

Nero Wolfe

Other

Butch Verich, commander

References

↑ "Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved December 2, 2010.
↑ "Unicef: MIGRATION PROFILES, 2013" (PDF). Unicef.
↑ Vujnovich, Milos M. Yugoslavs in Louisiana. Gretna: Pelican, 1974. Print.
↑ Nicolson, Mary C.; Slemmons, Mary Anne (1998). Alaska Newspapers On Microfilm, 1866-1998. Fairbanks/Juneau: University of Alaska Fairbanks/Alaska State Library. pp. 63–64.

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Slavic Americans
East Slavic	Belarusian Russian Ukrainian (Rusyn)
South Slavic	Bosnian Bulgarian Croatian Macedonian Montenegrin Serbian Slovene Yugoslav
West Slavic	Czech Kashubian Polish Silesian Slovak Sorbian

Montenegrin diaspora
Europe	Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Kosovo Macedonia Serbia Slovenia
Elsewhere	Argentina Australia Canada United States

South Slavic Americans
Bosnian Bulgarian Croatian Macedonian Montenegrin Serbian Slovene Yugoslav

European Americans
Central Europe	Austrian^1, Czech German^1, Amish German Texan Pennsylvania Dutch German Mennonites from Russia Hungarian Hungarian Ohioans Kashubian Liechtensteiner Luxembourgian Polish^1, Slovak Slovene Sorbian Swiss
Eastern Europe	Armenian⁵ Azerbaijani⁵ Belarusian Chechen Georgian⁵ Kazakh⁶ Russian^1, ² Cossack Kalmyk Ukrainian Cossack Rusyn
Northern Europe	Danish Estonian Faroese Finnish Icelandic Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Norwegian Dakotan Norwegian Minnesotan Sami Swedish
Southeast Europe³	Albanian Bosnian Bulgarian Cypriot Croatian Greek Macedonian Moldovan Montenegrin Romanian Serbian Alaskan Serbs Turkish⁴
Southern Europe	Italian Sicilian Maltese Monacan Portuguese Sanmarinese Spanish Asturian Basque Canarian Catalan Galician Hispano
Western Europe	Basque Belgian Flemish Breton Corsican British Cornish English Manx Scots-Irish/Ulster Scots Scottish Welsh Dutch French Cajun Frisian Irish
Other Europeans	Non-Hispanic whites Métis Roma Hungarian Slovak Romanies⁷ Louisiana Creole Cajun Isleños
¹ Poles came to the United States legally as Austrians, Germans, Prussians or Russians throughout the 19th century, because from 1772–1795 till 1918, all Polish lands had been partitioned between imperial Austria, Prussia (a protoplast of Germany) and Russia until Poland regained its sovereignty in the wake of World War I. ² Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here. ³ Yugoslav Americans are the American people from the former Yugoslavia. ⁴ Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Has a small part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace. ⁵ Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia are transcontinental countries. They have a small part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus. ⁶ Kazakhstan is technically a bicontinental country, having a small portion in European hands. ⁷ Disputed; Roma have recognized origins and historic ties to Asia (specifically to Northern India), but they experienced at least some distinctive identity development while in diaspora among Europeans.

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