Njeguši

A street in Njeguši

A church in Njeguši

Interior of an old house in Njeguši

Njeguši (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Његуши) is a village in southern Montenegro, within Cetinje municipality. It is located on the slopes of Mount Lovćen, within Lovćen national park.

This village is best known as birth place of Montenegro's royal dynasty of Petrović, which ruled Montenegro from 1696 to 1918, as well as everyday office supreme temporal power in Montenegro, Gubernadur, from one of the oldest families in Njeguši-Radonjić, which ruled from Montenegro, first to the Supreme serdar Stano of 1520 and even earlier (the days of the family Crnojevic), as of a later gubernadurs from 1756 to 1832.

The village is also significant for its well-preserved traditional folk architecture.

Njeguški sir and Njeguški pršut (local forms of cheese and prosciutto respectively), made solely in area around Njeguši, are genuine contributions to Montenegrin cuisine.

Interest

Name Njeguši as well as the tribe of the oldest times is referred to only name Njeguši. And today in the Njeguši and all over the Old Montenegro and all the surrounding areas of the tribe heard the name Njeguši. It is therefore the right, old and preserved to the present name. Ilija Ruvarac says that the tribe Njeguši called by the name founder Njeguši called that name is already in a Latin document the 1000th " as Negusius Podcupica.

Demographics

• Montenegrins - 515
• Serbs - 1
• unknown - 1
• Total - 517

Coordinates: 42°25′59″N 18°49′42″E / 42.4331°N 18.8283°E / 42.4331; 18.8283