From the ArchivesCreated January 24, 2005Updated August 16, 20262 min readby Gordan Stojović
LA MONTENEGRINA (Matica Crnogorska 2004) Catalina Milovich LA MONTENEGRINA is a unique story about the creation of the largest colony of our emigrants in South America. Marko Kapitanić, Petar Mil
LA MONTENEGRINA
(Matica Crnogorska 2004) Catalina Milovich
LA MONTENEGRINA is a unique story about the creation of the largest colony of our emigrants in South America. Marko Kapitanić, Petar Milović, Petar Kapitanić, Lazar Kosanović, Danijel Svorcan, Mitar Milović, Mitar Mićunović emigrants from the Kingdom of Montenegro arrive in the province of Chako (Ćako) in the north of Argentina, where they lay the foundations of Colonia La Montenegrina.
In this book, Catalina Milovich, a descendant of our first settlers to these parts of the world, describes the origin, development of the colony and the overall life of the Montenegrins in the province of Chako (Ćako) from the moment they first set foot on the soil of this distant land until today.
The book was first published in Argentina in Spanish in 1997. Thanks to Gordana Stevović, Matica Crnogorska got the right to publish the translation.
This work is of inestimable value for our culture in general and reflects in the best way everything that our emigrants went through from the moment they set foot on the soil of South America. The book also contains a large number of names, surnames and many other interesting data.
MEMORIES
Timotije Jokanović
From Trsa to Buenos Aires.
Timoti Jokanović's "Memories" represent one of the most original and exciting emigrant confessions published so far in our country.
In this story, the whole dimension of departure is shown in a unique way
"to America" and the drama of leaving one's homeland from the dilemma "The one who is good goes and the one who is not good stays", through parting with loved ones and the latter's look at Lovćen, all the way to the arduous struggle for one's place in society in the new homeland.
Rodolfo Jokanović sent this story, which Timotije Jokanović wrote at the end of the forties of the last century, so that his descendants know who they are and where they came from, and not forget their origins, to his friend Gordan Stojović, and that's how it got to Montenegro. So far, it has been published in several editions.
You can get all the information about the book via e-mail from .
Gordan Stojović
Reading the diaspora
What this literature is. Books like these sit between memoir and social history. They are written mostly by descendants rather than academics, and their value lies in the detail that official sources never captured — which village a family came from, what work they found, which language the children ended up speaking.
Why it exists at all. Montenegrin emigration was small in absolute numbers and easily absorbed into broader Slavic or Yugoslav categories in the records of the receiving countries. Without family-level accounts, most of it would simply be invisible in the archive.
Where to look further. Matica crnogorska publishes in this field, the diaspora associations in Argentina and Chile keep their own holdings, and the national and university libraries in Cetinje and Podgorica are the obvious starting points in Montenegro itself.
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Written by
Gordan Stojović
Gordan Stojović is a Montenegrin politician, writer and publicist, and a member of the Parliament of Montenegro (Skupština). A specialist in the history of Montenegrin emigration, he is the author of several books on the diaspora in South America — among them "Crnogorci u Argentini" and "Crnogorci u Južnoj Americi" — and served as Montenegro's ambassador to Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay (2014–2019). For Montenegro.com he writes about Montenegrins across the Americas and the stories of the old diaspora.
