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Montenegro Campaign (1714)
The Montenegro campaign was a campaign launched in 1714 by the Ottoman Empire against the Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro, an Ottoman vassal state that had been intermittently rebelling against Turkish rule since 1710. The leadership of the campaign was entrusted to the Beylerbey of Bosnia Eyalet, Bosnia, Köprülüzade Numan Pasha. With the Ottomans having successfully suppressed the rebellion and restored their rule over the lands, Montenegro's rebellious leader Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje, Danilo I escaped to and sought refuge in the Republic of Venice. The Venetians rejected the extradition request of the Turks, which was one of the main reasons for why the Seventh Ottoman-Venetian War had begun. Prelude In 1710, when the Pruth River Campaign began, Russian Tsar Peter the Great, Peter I sent agents to Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro, Montenegro and delivered a message encouraging an uprising. The Montenegrins, having accepted Peter's suggestions, rebelled and captured the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince-Bishopric Of Montenegro
The Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro () was a Serbian Orthodox ecclesiastical principality that existed from 1516 until 1852. The principality was located around modern-day Montenegro. It emerged from the Eparchy of Cetinje, later known as the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral, whose bishops defied the Ottoman Empire overlordship and transformed the parish of Cetinje into a '' de facto'' theocracy, ruling it as Metropolitans ('' Vladike'', also known as '' prince-bishops''). The first prince-bishop was Vavila. The system was transformed into a hereditary one by Danilo Šćepčević, a bishop of Cetinje who united the several tribes of Montenegro into fighting the Ottoman Empire that had occupied all of Montenegro (as the Sanjak of Montenegro and Montenegro Vilayet) and most of southeastern Europe at the time. Danilo was the first in the House of Petrović-Njegoš to occupy the position as the ''Metropolitan of Cetinje'' in 1851, when Montenegro became a secular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
