Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro

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Danilo I Petrović-Njegoš (Serbian Cyrillic: Данило I Петровић-Његош; 25 May 1826 – 13 August 1860) was the monarch of Montenegro from 1851 to 1860, ruling as the last Prince-Bishop (vladika) from 1851 to 1852 as Danilo II and as the first secular Prince from 1852 to 1860. The beginning of his reign marked the transition of Montenegro from a traditional theocratic Prince-Bishopric into a secular Principality. He became involved in a war with the Ottoman Empire in 1852, the Porte claiming jurisdiction in Montenegro, and the boundaries between the two countries were not defined until 1858. Danilo, with the help of his elder brother, Voivode Mirko, defeated the Ottomans at Ostrog in 1853 and in the Battle of Grahovac in 1858. The town of Danilovgrad is named after him.

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