Montenegrin Americans

Montenegrin American
Црногорски Американци
Crnogorski Amerikanci

Regions with significant populations
Alaska, Illinois, New York
Languages
American English, Montenegrin, Serbian
Religion
Orthodox, Islam, Roman Catholic
Related ethnic groups
other South Slavs

Montenegrin Americans are citizens of the United States who are of Montenegrin ancestry. Also, the term "Yugoslavian American" may be preferred by people who identify with the former nation of Yugoslavia before its breakup during the early 1990s, and in 2006, Montenegro became independent from the State Union with Serbia.

Concentrations

Today, these Montenegrins mainly live in the central and eastern United States, much of which is concentrated in New York City and Chicago, and to a lesser extent in Detroit, throughout the state of Alaska (note: about a quarter of all known Montenegrin Americans live in the city of Anchorage), and recent arrivals from former Yugoslavia in the Los Angeles area. An estimated 80,000 Americans are of Montenegrin ancestry, but an underestimate due to the fact many immigrants from Montenegro are ethnic Serbs (thus registered as Serbs) or as the pre-war "Yugoslav" in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Notables

• Milla Jovovich, Actress
• George Perazich, Humanitarian
• George Bojanich, Miner, inventor and joint operator of the fashionable Model Cafe in Fairbanks.
• Michael Anthony Stepovich, Former Governor of Alaska.
• John Butrovich, Senator of Alaska.
• Marko Dapcevich, current Mayor of Sitka.
• John Hajdukovich, businessman in Anchorage.
• Milo Hajdukovich, businessman and joint operator of Model Cafe in Fairbanks.
• Sabrija Vulić, folk singer in Chicago.
• Dušan Kosović, psychiatrist in New York.
• Pete Miscovich, Founder of the world's longest family-owned gold mine still in operation.
• George Pejovich, famous engineer/architect - designed The Indiana Skyway.
• Mirsad Huseinovic
• Edina Lekovic
• Elijah Monte Radlovic
• Nikola Petanović, writer and philosopher

In Fiction

Rex Stout's well-known fictional detective Nero Wolfe is a Montenegrin American, and his antecedants play a major rold in several books of the series, notably "Over My Dead Body" and "The Black Mountain" (the second of these titles is indeed an English transaltion of the name "Montenegro").

See also

• Montenegrins

External links

• Montenegrin Emigrants in Alaska
• Montenegrin-Americans celebrating Montenegrin Independence in Chicago