Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul
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: ''This article is about a city in [[Brazil]]. For other places named Montenegro, see [[Montenegro (disambiguation)]].''
'''Montenegro''' is a city and municipality of the state of [[Rio Grande do Sul]], [[Brazil]]; 59.000 inhabitants.
The town was established in 1847 to be settled primarily by German immigrants from the Hundsrück region of southwest Germany. The local language was [[Riograndenser Hundsrückisch]] for most of its history and is still spoken there after 150 years of the initial settlement. Although today [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] prevails, mostly as a result of the campaign of the "[[Nacionalização]]" (''Nationalization'') forcefully imposed on all German and Italian settled areas of southern Brazil by president and dictator [[Getúlio Vargas]] in the 1940s.
[[Cláudio Cardinal Hummes]], one of the candidates to the Catholic Church papacy in April of 2005 was born in the area. On July 2, 2008, [[Pope Benedict XVI]] erected the new [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Montenegro]], making it a suffragan see in the province of the metropolitan archdiocese of [[Porto Alegre]], from whose territory it was taken.
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