Yugoslavia (/ ˌ j uː ɡ oʊ ˈ s l ɑː v i ə/; lit. ' Land of the South Slavs ') [a ] was a country in Central Europe and the Balkans [6 ] [7 ] [8 ] [9 ] that existed from 1918 to 1992.
Yugoslavia, former country that existed in the west-central part of the Balkan Peninsula from 1929 until 2003. It included the current countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, and the…
Yugoslavia contained a wide range of different ethnic groups that spoke different languages, used different alphabets and worshipped different religions.
In the summer of 1914 Serbia was not ready for war. After the Second Balkan War a year prior, by annexing Kosovo and Macedonia it almost doubled its state territory (from 48,300 km2 to 87,780 km2) and the population increased by one-third.
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was an original Member of the United Nations, the Charter having been signed on its behalf on 26 June 1945 and ratified 19 October 1945, until its dissolution following the establishment and…
The partisan movement in Yugoslavia was significant. There were 4,572 Jews listed as partisans, 3,000 of whom where in fighting units. Since the Jews were recognized as equals due to a general lack of institutional antisemitism, they did…