Το ελληνικό προξενείο της Κετίνης : συμβολή στις σχέσεις Ελλάδος-Μαυροβουνίου κατά τα τέλη του 19ου και τις αρχές του 20ού αι.

Abstract

A series of documents in the History Archives of the Greek Ministry of
Foreign Affairs provide information regarding the foundation of a Greek
Political Agency in Cettigne, capital of the newly formed Hegemony of
Montenegro during the years of Nikolaos The First («Nikitas» Petrovitch-
Niegos, 1841-1921).
Almost immediately the General Consulate was also established on March
1881, as part of the Greek policy in the Balkans. The first Greek diplomats were
Alexandros Logothetis and Alexandras Leonardos. In 1883 it was upgraded to
an Embassy with Andreas Psillas as the first Ambassador.
The purpose of the Greek diplomatic presence was neither the service to
Greeks of the same descent as there were very few in Montenegro, nor the
development of economic relations because no greek products were being
exported to the Hegemony. The main purpose was «to strengthen the existing
traditional love and sympathy between the two nations with the same religion and the same experiences of the past».
Reports of Greek diplomats provide a series of information which explain a
number of events during that transitional period under the shadow of the
Austrian and Ottoman presence in the Hegemony of Montenegro as well as in
the surrounding regions.
The second period of the diplomatic presence of the Greek at Cettigne
started (1896) just before the beginning of the Greek Struggle in Macedonia.
Logothetis, Tsamados, Psaras, Konstantinidis, Evgeniadis, Rentis were some of
the diplomatic representatives of Greece until March 1916, during which period
the Embassy was closed due to the occupation of Montenegro by the Austrians.