Montenegrin cap

Montenegrin cap
Црногорска капа
A Montenegrin cap with the initials N.I.of King Nicholas I of Montenegro

The Montenegrin cap (Serbian: Црногорска капа, romanizedCrnogorska kapa) is a cap traditionally worn in Montenegro by the Montenegrins and Serbs of Montenegro. It was introduced by Prince Bishop Petar II Petrović-Njegoš in the mid-1840s as a replacement for the then-popular fez.[1]

  1. ^ Victor Roudometof (2001). Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy: The Social Origins of Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-313-31949-5.