Montenegro The region in the Balkans known as Yugoslovia is the home of 594,000 people, most of which are Montenegrins. In 1946, a federal state consisting of six republics was organized and named Yugoslovia. Montenegro was one of the original six and one of the last two republics to stillmake up this nation after four republics, Boznia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, and Slovenia, declared their independences between June 1991 and March 1992. Today, Montenegro and Serbia make up present day Yugoslavia. Montenegrins are a people that are closely related to the Serbs and make up 68% of the population. Like the Serbs, Montenegrins use the Cyrillic alphabe