Statehood Day ( Montenegrin and Serbian: Дан државности/Dan državnosti) is a holiday that occurs every year on

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to commemorate the day in 1878 on which the

Berlin Congress The Congress of Berlin (13 June – 13 July 1878) was a diplomatic conference to reorganise the states in the Balkan Peninsula after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, which had been won by Russia against the Ottoman Empire. Represented at th ...

recognized the

Principality of Montenegro The Principality of Montenegro ( sr, Књажевина Црна Горa, Knjaževina Crna Gora) was a principality in Southeastern Europe that existed from 13 March 1852 to 28 August 1910. It was then proclaimed a kingdom by Nikola I, who then ...

as the twenty-seventh independent state in the world. The date is also celebrated to commemorate the 1941 uprising against Italian occupation. Statehood Day is not to be confused with Montenegro's Independence Day, which is held each year on 21 May in honor of the 2006 referendum that indicated that 55.5% of Montenegrins were in favor of becoming a

sovereign nation A nation state is a political unit where the state and nation are congruent. It is a more precise concept than "country", since a country does not need to have a predominant ethnic group. A nation, in the sense of a common ethnicity, may inc ...

.ZAKON O DRŽAVNIM I DRUGIM PRAZNICIMA
- Official Gazette of Montenegro Nr. 27/2007 (17.5.2007)

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Society of Montenegro July observances National days {{Montenegro-stub

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