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Metropolitan Danilo I (1696-1735) called himself "Duke of the Serb land".
Metropolitan Sava called his people of Montenegro, the "Serbian nation" (1766)
Petar I Petrović-Njegoš made a plan to form a new Serbian Empire by joining Bay of Kotor, Dubrovnik, Dalmatia, Herzegovina to Montenegro and some of the highland neighbours (1807)
Petar II Petrović-Njegoš (1830): "I love my land Montenegro, I write Serbian and I tell loudly to everyone: my ethnicity is Serbian, my mind and soul is Slavic!"
During the reign of Danilo I Petrović-Njegoš, the pupils had classes in Serbian Grammar; Serbian History; and Slavic History.
The 1909 census, undertaken by the Principality of Montenegro, recorded that 95% of the population spoke Serbian and followed the Orthodox Christian faith.
The geography textbook for the 3rd grade of elementary school, in 1911, said:
"In Montenegro live only true and pure Serbs who speak the Serbian language... Besides Montenegro there are more Serb lands in which our Serb brothers live... Some of them are as free as we are and some are subjugated to foreigners."
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