Montdidier
a town in northern France. In the World War, during the German drive toward Paris, in August, 1914, Montdidier was occupied and held by the invaders. When Marshal Foch, commander of the Allied forces, began the great offensive movement against the Germans, in the late summer of 1918, General Debeny's French army captured Montdidier on Aug. 10. Pop. about 5,000.
MONT-DORE-LES-BAINS MONTENEGRO A MONT-DORE-LES-BAINS (mông- in 1846 was raised to a baronetcy. He dor-la-bang'), a village of Auvergne, made seven journeys to the East, the France; in the department of Puy-dedepartment of Puy-de- first being in 1827, and the latest in 1875 , Dôme, 3,412 feet above the sea-level, in a picturesque valley, which is bordered by rugged volcanic hills, and closed toward the S. by a semicircle of jagged mountains, the highest point of which, of which , the Pic de Sancy (6,188 feet), is the feet), is is the loftiest mountain in central France. The Mont Dore mineral springs, used by the Romans, are of great value in affections of the throat, most diseases of the respiratory organs, and rheumatism. MONTEBELLO CASTEGGIO (mon-tebellō kä-ted'jō), a village of northern Italy. where the Austrians were defeated by a French army under General Lannes, June 9, 1800. In May, 1859, the Austrians were again defeated here by the united French and Piedmontese army.
MONTE CARLO (mon'te kär'lō), the casino in MONACO (q. v.). The first stone was laid in 1856. The "Association of the Watering-Place and Strangers ' Club of Monaco," whose capital is $6,000,000 chiefly for the amelioration of the condition of his countrymen. In memory of his wife he endowed a Jewish college at Ramsgate in 1865. In his 101st year he died in Ramsgate, England, July 28, 1885 .
MONTENEGRO (native Tzrnagora, Turkish Karadagh, all meaning Black Mountain), formerly an independent principality of Europe, situated in the W. part of the Balkan Peninsula, and bounded by Albania, the Adriatic , and the former Austrian provinces of Herzegovina and Dalmatia; area, about 3,630 square miles; pop. about 250,000 .
The surface is everywhere mountainous, being covered by an extension of the Dinaric Alps, rising to the height of 8,850 feet. There are, however, a few beautiful and verdant plains and valleys, in which the soil is tolerably fertile. The principal river is the Moratcha. About half of the Lake of Scutari, besides several smaller lakes, lies within the Monof the mountain sides. Fruit trees of all in 60,000 shares, holds a contract, which tenegrin boundary. The climate is was made with the late Prince Charles, healthy. Forests of beech, pine, chestnut, and expired in 1913. It has practically and other valuable timber cover many to bear the cost of spiritual and temto bear the cost of spiritual and tem- poral government for the principality. kinds abound, especially in the sheltered valleys, where even almonds, vines, and pr principality . kinds abound, especially in the sheltered The present ruler, Prince Albert, receives from the society an annuity of $350,000 a year. Pop. about 10,000.
MONTECATINI (kä-tēnē), a watering place of Italy, 30 miles N. W. of Florence. Its mineral springs are saline, and are efficacious for abdominal complaints, scrofula, and dysentery .
MONTE CRISTO (krēs'tō), a small island 6 miles in circumference belonging to Italy, 25 miles of S. of Elba, the seat of a penal colony. Dumas gave the name of the isle to the hero of his most popular romance.