The Doclean Academy of Sciences and Arts (Montenegrin

Montenegrin language

Montenegrin is a name used for the Serbo-Croatian language as spoken by Montenegrins; it also refers to an incipient standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian used as the official language of Montenegro...

: Dukljanska akademija nauka i umjetnost, DANU; Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

 Academia Dioclitiana Scientiarum et Artium) is a scholar's academy

Academy

An academy is an institution of higher learning, research, or honorary membership.The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece. In the western world academia is the...

 in Montenegro

Montenegro

Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...

. It is named after the historic ancient Slavic realm of Duklja

Duklja

Doclea or Duklja was a medieval state with hereditary lands roughly encompassing the territories of present-day southeastern Montenegro, from Kotor on the west to the river Bojana on the east and to the sources of Zeta and Morača rivers on the north....

 on the territory of present-day Montenegro

Montenegro

Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...

 and Albania

Albania

Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

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The academy is not the only one in the country, the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts

Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts

Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts is the most important scientific institution of Montenegro....

 is the country's national academy

National academy

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. The two organizations have been working together to develop a Montenegrin encyclopedia.

The academy was created in 1998 by scholars supporting an alternate view of history, that of some waylines of Croatian historiography, considering the national Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts too pro-Serbian and an element of Serbianization of Montenegro, similar to establishment of a Montenegrin Orthodox Church

Montenegrin Orthodox Church

The Montenegrin Orthodox Church is an Orthodox Christian organization acting in Montenegro and Montenegrin emigration circles - e.g. the village of Lovćenac and the Montenegrin emigration colony in Argentina...

 next to the Serbian Orthodox Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral

Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral

The Metropolitanate of Montenegro is the largest diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro. Founded in 1219 by Saint Sava, it is now one of the most prominent dioceses in the Serbian Orthodox Church. The current Metropolitan is Amfilohije...

 or other sovereignist movements. Its research is on the greater scale considered controversial.

The academy grants the following awards:

• Saint Vladimir of Duklja
  Vladimir of Duklja
  Vladimir was a King of Duklja 1103 - 1113. He was son of Vladimir, who was King Mihailo's son and King Constantin Bodin's oldest brother....
  
   Award - awarded biennially for lifetime achievement
• Sclavorum Regnum
  Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja
  The Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja is a medieval chronicle originally written by a Catholic monk of the Cistercian order by the name of Roger for the Croatian Ban Paul Šubić because an order form by Ban Šubić and a quote of Catholic monk have been discovered...
  
   Award - awarded for achievement in the sciences
• Lesendro Award - awarded for achievement in Montenegrin literature
• Njegoš
  House of Petrovic-Njegoš
  The House of Petrović-Njegoš was the Royal House of Montenegro from 1696 to 1918. Montenegro had enjoyed de facto independence from the Ottoman Empire from 1711 but only received formal international recognition as an independent principality in 1878.Montenegro was ruled from inception by...
  
   Award - awarded for achievement within the Academy and in the promotion of Montengrin sciences and arts

Prominent members

• Jevrem Brković
  Jevrem Brkovic
  Jevrem Brković is a Montenegrin writer , historian and a cultural activist...
  
  , writer, President
• Šerbo Rastoder
  Šerbo Rastoder
  Prof. Šerbo Rastoder, PhD is a Montenegrin Bosniak historian. He is also an author, writing about the history of Montenegro and about a few specific parts in Montenegro's history...
  
  , historian
• Mladen Lompar, writer
• Miodrag Perović
  Miodrag Perović
  Miodrag "Miško" Perović, PhD is a Montenegrin intellectual, journalist, media publisher, university professor, political activist, and businessman....
  
  , sculptor
• Sreten Perović, writer
• Vukić Pulević, biologist
• Danilo Radojević, historian of literature
• Branko Radojičić, geographist
• Božidar Šekularac, historian
• Vojislav Vulanović, writer
• Vojo Stanić
  Vojo Stanic
  Vojo Stanić is a Montenegrin painter and sculptor.Vojo Stanić was born in 1924 in Podgorica. He completed Academy of Sculpture in Belgrade, after that he moved Herceg Novi....
  
  , painter
• Slobodan Backović
  Slobodan Backovic
  Slobodan Backović is a Montenegrin politician and nuclear physicist. He is a member of the Doclean Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts...
  
  , physicist and politician

Former members

• Vojislav Nikčević
  Vojislav Nikcevic
  Vojislav Nikčević was a Montenegrin linguist.He was born in Stubici, Nikšić, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was educated at the University of Zagreb in Zagreb, Croatia....
  
  
• Obren Blagojević, (also member of CANU
  Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts
  Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts is the most important scientific institution of Montenegro....
  
   and SANU
  Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts is the most prominent academic institution in Serbia today...
  
  , Honorary President), died in 2001
• Božina Ivanović
  Božina Ivanovic
  Božina Ivanović was a Montenegrin anthropologist and politician.From 1988 - 1989, he was the President of Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Montenegro within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...