Bokelji

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Ethnic majority ratios according to the 2003 census

Bokelji ( Serbian Cyrillic : Бокељи ) is the regional name for the inhabitants of the historical region of the Bay of Kotor ( Boka kotorska ) in Montenegro . Today the region is divided into the three municipalities Herceg Novi , Tivat and Kotor . The name Bokelj derives from Boka , serbokroat . for bay, from.

Composition of the population

The three municipalities in the Boka Kotorska region have 71,443 inhabitants according to the 2003 census. The population was composed mainly of Serbs with 30,026 inhabitants (41.89%), Montenegrins with 24,779 inhabitants (34.68%) and Croats with 5,433 inhabitants (7.61%). However, in the 2003 census, 11,205 inhabitants or around 16% did not provide any information about their nationality. 3,807 inhabitants (approx. 5%) claimed to be of another nationality.

religion

The Bokelji are predominantly Christian or atheistic. Serbs and Montenegrins profess themselves mainly as Serbian Orthodox , Croats mainly as Roman Catholic . A large part of the Bokelji, predominantly Montenegrins, are atheistic.

Historical

The Serbian and Montenegrin inhabitants of the Bay of Kotor call themselves Bokelji today, while the Croatian inhabitants prefer the name Bokeljski Hrvati . The Bay of Kotor became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918 , before that it belonged to the Kgr. Dalmatia under the Habsburgs . Until 1922 it was a separate administrative unit within the Kgr. Yugoslavia, then part of the Oblast of Zeta , which included parts of Montenegro and Metochiens , and in 1929 part of the Zeta Banschaft . The Bay of Kotor officially became part of Montenegro with the reorganization of the Yugoslav state in 1945 under the Yugoslav communists, but as a part of the republic "Socialist Republic of Montenegro and the Bay (of Kotor)", serbokroat. Socijalistička Republika Crna Gora i Boka , see Bosnian Adequate Bosnia and Herzegovina . In 1948 the middle name Boka was dropped and finally only the name " Socialist Republic of Montenegro " was used. At the time of Yugoslavia, the term Bokelji was generally used by the inhabitants of the bay, who wanted to express that they thought they were a very special kind of people.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ivan Ivanji , Yugoslavia, Munich 1991, The Coast of Montenegro, p. 147

Personalities

The Serbian Orthodox Saint Stefan Štiljanović is one of the most important personalities of the Bokelji .

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