Subject: Re: Adios, Yugoslavia...<br/>
Date: Feb 06, 2003 @ 21:19<br/>
Author: anorak222 &lt;listen@wschwanke.de&gt; (&quot;anorak222 &lt;listen@...&gt;&quot; &lt;listen@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-403918910">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;John Seeliger&quot; &lt;jseelige@a...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Thanks for the links.  Does Montenegro speak any Romance language?  &gt; It seems like a Latin name.<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>It&#39;s Italian for &quot;Black Mountain&quot;, but the local language is Slavic considered a dialect of Serbo-Croatian. (Now, for political reasons, all former &quot;dialects&quot; of S-C are considered &quot;languages&quot;).<br/>
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The Italian name might have come from the Venetians who used to have territories all over the Adriatic coasts. Italy is just round the corner there anyway, having Italians names isn&#39;t so unusual in that part of the world.<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; On the subject of the octo-point, are communes like states?<br/>
&gt; counties?<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>Municipality. Could be a city, town, village, anything that has a mayor. :)<br/>
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Regards</div>