Montenegrin author: Montenegrins are "not Slavs"

[Mingle]

A controversial Montenegrin author has published an article claiming that Montenegrins are not Serbs - Slavs whose ancestors migrated to the Balkans.

Instead, Miroslav Cosovic writes for the Analitika website, Montenegrins are the peninsula's indigenous people.

According to Cosovic, "we all know " how proof is presented that Montenegrins are actually Serbs, and added:

"(Petar Petrovic) Njegos and King Nikola are quoted frantically, some map from Nikola's era is cited, some courtiers of Nikola are cited, two or three associations from before the 19th century are pointed out to, and that's it."

But, writes Cosovic, "in the essence of their popular being Montenegrins are not even Slavs, let alone Serbs."

He advised "including more sciences, and not just history " as "the only proper way of perceiving a nation's ethno-genesis." Otherwise, Cosovic said, relying just on history is "frivolous, very frivolous."

Cosovic then reveals that Montenegrins are "a mixture of indigenous peoples whom Romans referred to as Illyrians, and along with the population of the so-called Old Herzegovina make up a single ethnic whole."

Otherwise, Cosovic is known as the author of a book entitled, "Bizarre Saints of the Serbian Church," promoted by the canonically unrecognized Montenegrin Church (CPC), where the author describes Serbian Orthodox saints as "bizarre, genocidal, blood-thirsty, cruel, organizers of political murders, pedophiles, butchers, lechers, madmen."

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[chyyris]

Montenegrins have high percentage of E-V13 which is paleo-Balkanic (aka Vlach) marker.
Cosovic claims that I2a1b is also Vlach, but that is wrong. I2a1b came to the Balkans with Slavs.
Montenegrins have only 7% R1a, even Albanians and Greeks have more.

[chyyris]

Montenegrins = Serbs with strong Vlach influence

[Mingle]

Montenegrins have high percentage of E-V13 which is paleo-Balkanic (aka Vlach) marker.
Cosovic claims that I2a1b is also Vlach, but that is wrong. I2a1b came to the Balkans with Slavs.
Montenegrins have only 7% R1a, even Albanians and Greeks have more.

So is that a yes or no? Regardless of their Y-DNA, I think they plot with Serbs.

Do you consider them to be Serbs?

[chyyris]

So is that a yes or no? Regardless of their Y-DNA, I think they plot with Serbs.

Do you consider them to be Serbs?

Yes, because until 20 years ago majority of them considered themselves for Serbs and their language is Serbian.
Today around 1/3 of Montenegrins declared themselves as Serbs, 100 years ago all Montenegrins were Serbs.
Towards the Serbs they are something like Austrians towards the Germans or Ukrainians towards the Russians.

[Mingle]

Yes, because until 20 years ago majority of them considered themselves for Serbs and they language is Serbian.
Today around 1/3 of Montenegrins declared themselves as Serbs, 100 years ago all Montenegrins were Serbs.
Towards the Serbs they are something like Austrians towards the Germans or Ukrainians towards the Russians.

Or like Moldovans towards Romanians.

[Aspar]

Slav means nothing but a linguistic term.
Therefore Montenegrins are Slavs.
For the irony to be even bigger, this guy has a Slavic name.
Miroslav comes from the words Mir=peace and Slav=Slav.
Blend together means the peaceful Slav.

[chyyris]

Or like Moldovans towards Romanians.

Yes.

[chyyris]

For the irony to be even bigger, this guy has a Slavic name.
Miroslav comes from the words Mir=peace and Slav=Slav.
Blend together means the peaceful Slav.

He is I2a1b.

[Tauromachos]

This is something for Bosniensis