Mala Crna Gora 2020 in Montenegro

If there is an island on the mainland, then it is certainly the village of Mala Crna Gora. The mountain is located about twenty kilometers from Zabljak at an altitude of 1700 meters. This is the story of the Highlanders and their life in this beautiful place on the "roof" of Durmitor. Why Little Montenegro? Who is the godfather of her name? The whole place, at an altitude of up to 1,700 m, was under a coniferous forest, hence the name and song: "Spruce, fir, pine to pine, beautiful katun Durmitora." "This village used to not be called Montenegro at all. Pivljani, from this plateau of Piva, when they look from there, they have always called it the Green Plateau. So it was called the Island of Freedom. Then, with the arrival of King Nikola in our village in 1888, and when he donated the church to be built, he said that I can give you everything, but this cannot be a state within a state. There is a state of Montenegro, so it cannot be a village of Montenegro. That is how the name changed, some still called Montenegro, some the Green Plateau, some the Island of Freedom. After World War II, the village was called Little Montenegro ”