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South Slavs
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subgroup of Slavic peoples who speak the South Slavic languages
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It sits within the topics Ethnic groups in the Balkans, Harv and Sfn no-target errors and "Related ethnic groups" needing confirmation.
Its subject is documented across 48 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Subclass of
- Slavs
- Part of
- Slavs
- Has part
- Slovenes
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Country
- Bulgaria
- Population
- 30000000
- Said to be same as
- Yugoslavs
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- self-identified name
- Južni Slovani
- Commons category
- South Slavs
- topic's main category
- Category:South Slavs
- language used
- South Slavic
- partially coincident with
- Yugoslavs
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Encyclopedic overview
South Slavs are Slavic peoples who speak South Slavic languages and inhabit a contiguous region of Southeast Europe comprising the eastern Alps and the Balkan Peninsula. Geographically separated from the West Slavs and East Slavs by Austria, Hungary, Romania, and the Black Sea, the South Slavs today include Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbs and Slovenes.
In the 20th century, the country of Yugoslavia (from Serbo-Croatian, literally meaning "South Slavia" or "South Slavdom") united a majority of the South Slavic peoples and lands—with the exception of Bulgarians and Bulgaria—into a single state. The Pan-Slavic concept of Yugoslavia emerged in late 17th-century Croatia, at the time part of the Habsburg monarchy, and gained prominence through the 19th-century Illyrian movement. The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929, was proclaimed on 1 December 1918, following the unification of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs with the kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro. With the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, several independent sovereign states were formed.
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