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nef^rin railway) is now open from Antivari to Vir Pazar. There are 528 mites of telegraph line in the country, with 23 telegraph offices and 2 radio- telegraphic stations, Montenegro forms part of the Postal Union ; it has 21 post offices.

Money. — Montenegro has a small coinage of gold, silver, nickel and bronze. The perper and para are nominally equal in value to the Austrian krone and heller. The coins in circulation in 1910, struck at the Vienna mint except the five and one perper pieces struck in France, were : gold, 300 hundred perper, 30,000 twenty perper and 40,000 ten perper pieces ; silver, 60, 000 five perper, 300,000 two perper, and 500, 000 one perper pieces. French and English gold and Austrian paper and silver circulate freely. There arc four banks, the Bank of Montenegro at Cettinje, the Banks of Podgoritza and Niksic at those places, and the National Bank of Montenegro at Antivari Avith a branch at Cettinje.

British Envoy and Minider.—QoviXii de Salis, C.V.O., O.M.G.

Consul General in London.— ^iv J. Roper Parkington.

Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Montenegro.

Foreign Office Reports. Annual Series. No. 1761, 1896, No. 1884, 1897, and 2114, 1S9S.

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Handbook of the Armies of Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, &c. Prepared in the Intelli- gence Division of the War Office. London, 1895.

Andric (M.), Geschichte des Fiirstenthums Montenegro. Wien, 1853.

Coquelle (P.), Histoire du Montenegro et de la Bosnie. Paris, 1890.

Cozens-Hardy. Montenegro and its Borderlands. GeographicalJournal. Vol. IV. 1894.

Denton (Rev. William), Montenegro : its People and their History. London, 1877.

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Muzet (A.), Aux Pays Balkaniques. Paris, 1912.

Schwarz(JD\\ B.), Montenegro, Schilderung einer Reise durch das Innere nebst Entwurf einer Geographie des Landes. Leipzig, 1883.

Seymour (F.), A History of Montenegro. London, 1912.

Lenorviant, Turcs et Montenegrins. .

Yriarte (Ch.), Les Bords de I'Adriatique et le Montenegro.

Wyon (R.) and Prance (G.), The Land of the Black Mountain. London, 1903.