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See also:CETTIGNE (Servian, Tsetinye; also written Cettinje, Tzetinje, and Tsettinye) , the See also:capital of See also:Montenegro; in a narrow See also:plain deeply sunk in the See also:heart of the See also:limestone mountains, at a height of 2093 ft. above the See also:sea. Pop. (1900) about 3200. The•surrounding See also:country is See also:bare and stony, with carefully cultivated patches of See also:rich red See also:soil among the crevices of the See also:rock. In See also:winter it is often so deeply covered with See also:snow as to be well-nigh inaccessible, while in See also:spring and autumn it is frequently flooded by the See also:waters of a small See also:brook which becomes a torrent after See also:rain or a thaw. Cettigne itself is little more than a walled See also:village, consisting of a cluster of whitewashed cottages and some unadorned public buildings. These include a See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church; a fortified monastery"which was founded in 1478, but so often burned and rebuilt as to seem quite See also:modern, and which is visited by pilgrims to the See also:tomb of See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter I. (1782-1830); residences for the See also:archimandrite and the vladika or See also:metropolitan of Cettigne; a See also:palace built in 1863, which accommodates the ministries; the See also:court of See also:appeal, and a school modelled on the gymnasia of See also:Germany and See also:Austria; the newer palaces of the See also:prince and his See also:heir; See also:foreign legations; See also:barracks; a See also:seminary for priests and teachers, established by the See also:tsar See also:Alexander II. (1855-1881), with a very successful girls' school founded and endowed by the tsaritsa See also:Marie; a library and See also:reading-See also:room; a See also:theatre, a museum and a See also:hospital. In an open space near the old palace stood the celebrated See also:plane See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree, beneath which Prince See also:Nicholas gave See also:audience to his subjects, and administered See also:justice until the closing years of the 19th See also:century. A zigzag See also:highway, regarded as a See also:triumph of See also:engineering, winds through the See also:mountain passes between Cettigne and the See also:Austrian seaport of See also:Cattaro; and other See also:good roads give See also:access to the richest parts of the interior. There is, however, little See also:trade, though See also:mineral waters are manufactured.
Cettigne owes its origin to See also:Ivan the See also:Black, who was forced, towards the end of the 15th century, to withdraw from Zhabliak, his former capital. It has often been taken and sacked by the See also:Turks, but has seldom been occupied by them for See also:long.
End of Article: CETTIGNE (Servian, Tsetinye; also written Cettinje, Tzetinje, and Tsettinye)
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