Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul 987416 224791810 2008-07-10T12:55:18Z Lightbot 7178666 Units/dates/other : ''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. {{coor title dms|29|41|20|S|51|27|39|W|region:BR-RS_type:city(58623)_source:dewiki}} {{RGSmunicipalities}} [[Category:Cities, towns and villages in Rio Grande do Sul State]] {{RioGrandedoSul-geo-stub}} [[de:Montenegro (Brasilien)]] [[es:Montenegro (Brasil)]] [[fr:Montenegro (Rio Grande do Sul)]] [[it:Montenegro (Brasile)]] [[no:Montenegro (Rio Grande do Sul)]] [[pt:Montenegro (Rio Grande do Sul)]] [[ru:Монтенегру (Риу-Гранди-ду-Сул)]] [[vo:Montenegro]]