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Old Montenegro (Montenegrin: Стара Црна Гора, Stara Crna Gora), [1] [2] [3] also known as Montenegro proper (Montenegrin: Права Црна Гора, Prava Crna Gora), [4] [5] or True Montenegro (Montenegrin: Истинска Црна Гора, Istinska Crna Gora), [6] [7] is a term used for the embryonic part of modern Montenegro.
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Rijeka Crnojevića was the historical seat of the Riječka nahija, [4] one of the four territorial units of Old Montenegro. The town used to the second most important town in Montenegro, with residence of the Petrović dynasty placed in the place, being the first building, soon followed by other buildings gradually forming urban settlement.
Crmnica (Serbian and Montenegrin: Црмница, pronounced [tsr̩mnitsa]) is one of the local communities (mjesne zajednice) of the municipality of Bar and a historical region in southern Montenegro. It was one of the four sub-regions of Old Montenegro, where it was known as Crmnička nahija ("the nahija of Crmnica").
The toponym derives from a Slavicized variant of the Albanian masculine name Lesh ().According to a local tradition, the ancestor arrived from the city of Lezhë, however the actual name is regarded as being much older since as early as 1496 Đurađ Crnojević mentions the nobleman Radovan Lъšević (Lješević) in the area of Lješanska nahija, while its inhabitants as Lьšane (Lješane).
The name Grahovljani is an denonym for the place name Grahovo which is composed of Serbo-Croatian grah (bean) [2] [3] (from Proto-Slavic *gorxъ) and -ovo (from Proto-Slavic *-ovъ), a suffix used in Slavic languages to indicate a placename, thereby making the name of Grahovo, 'place of beans'.
The first site in Montenegro to be added to the list was Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor, inscribed at the 3rd UNESCO session in 1979. [3] Durmitor National Park was inscribed in 1980 and extended in 2005. [4] These two sites were first added to the list when Montenegro was still a part of Yugoslavia.