Ubavoj nam Crnoj Gori

Ubavoj nam Crnoj Gori
English: To Our Beautiful Montenegro
Убавој нам Црној Гори

Former national anthem of  Montenegro
LyricsJovan Sundečić
MusicJovo Ivanišević
Adopted1870
Relinquished1918 (de facto), 1922 (de jure)[1]
Succeeded by"Bože pravde"
(as the anthem of Kingdom of
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
)
Audio sample
"Ubavoj nam Crnoj Gori"

"Ubavoj nam Crnoj Gori" (Serbian: Убавој нам Црној Гори, English: To Our Beautiful Montenegro) was the national and state anthem of the Kingdom of Montenegro in the late 19th-early 20th century.[1] A popular song called "Onamo, 'namo!" (English: "There, o'er There!") also existed. The educational system had an honorific song, the Hymn to Saint Sava, which was sung in the Saint's honour.

The lyrics were made in 1865[2] by the Serb poet and a priest named Jovan Sundečić, who was the secretary of Prince Nikola I of Montenegro.[3] The music was composed by Jovo Ivanišević, drawing from "Uskliknimo s ljubavlju", hymn to Saint Sava[4] and later adapted by Anton Schulz.[5] The anthem was first performed on October 17, 1870, after which Prince Nikola declared it as the state anthem.[6] In 1993, it was one of the proposals during the unsuccessful negotiations to adopt a regional anthem of the then-Yugoslav republic of Montenegro.[7] The main problem was its monarchist lyrics, which were unfitting for Montenegro as at the time it was a republican state.

  1. ^ "Order of Prince Danilo I of Montenegro". Archived from the original on 2009-05-16. Retrieved 2017-10-22.

    ... until the Conference of Ambassadors at Paris gave international recognition to the union on 13 July 1922.