Италија и Црна Гора у Анексионој кризи 1908-1909
Italy and Montenegro during the Annexation Crisis 1908-1909

Summary/Abstract: During the European crisis caused by the Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in October 1908, Italy and Montenegro established the most intense political cooperation in the history of their mutual relations thus far. The Italian support was influential for the partial abolishment and modification, to Montenegro’s advantage, of the Article 29 of the Treaty of Berlin from 1878, which limited the sovereignty of Montenegro in its coastal territories. In consequence to the investment of the Italian capital in the construction of the Port of Bar, Italy was directly involved in the question. During the crisis, Montenegro, had requestedfrom Austria-Hungary, though to no avail, also territorial compensations, primarily in the Spiča region and the Herzegovina borderlands. Intervening for Montenegrin interests, Italian diplomacy closely collaborated with the Russian and the British diplomacy. The efforts of the Entente Forces and Italy to resolve all issues which had arisen from the act of annexation at the Conference of the contracting powers of the Treaty of Berlin, including the issue of the compensation for Montenegro, however had no results. The crisis ended in the beginning of April 1909 thanks to the Italian mediation in the normalization of relations between Montenegro and Austria-Hungary.

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