people
Montenegrins
also: черногорцы, chernogortsy
The people of Montenegro, a small Balkan principality with a long history of resisting Ottoman rule; invoked here only through Father Sisoy's confused aside linking them to the Japanese as "one and the same tribe."
Reading notes
- The Bishop §49 Montenegrins
Father Sisoy's confused aside links the Japanese and the Montenegrins as "one and the same tribe" who "were under the Turkish yoke together" -- an old man's garbled folk geography, not history: Montenegro is a small Balkan people with a long history of resisting Ottoman rule, and has no connection to Japan.