Yugoslavia
Sign in to saveYugoslavia (; ) was a country in Central Europe and the Balkans that existed from 1918 to 1992. It came into existence following World War I, under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, from the merger of the Kingdom of Serbia with the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and constituted the first union of South Slavic peoples as a sovereign state, following centuries of foreign rule over the region under the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy.
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Yugoslavia was a country in Central Europe and the Balkans that existed from 1918 to 1992, formed after World War I as the first independent state to unite South Slavic peoples who had previously lived under foreign rule by the Ottoman Empire and Habsburg monarchy. It matters historically because it represented a significant reorganization of the region following World War I, bringing together Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and other South Slavic groups into a single sovereign nation for the first time.
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- 1918–19921941–1945: Axis occupation
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- Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia
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- Kingdom of MontenegroMontenegro
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- State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs
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24 sectionsContents
- Background
- Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- King Alexander's rule
- 1934–1941
- World War II
- Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia
- Yugoslav–Soviet split and the Non-Alignment Movement
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Ethnic tensions and economic crisis
- Breakup
- Yugoslav Wars
- Timeline
- New states
- Succession, 1992–2003
- Succession, 2006–present
- Yugo-nostalgia
- Demographics
- Languages
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- Historiography and memory
- External links
Yugoslavia (; ) was a country in Central Europe and the Balkans that existed from 1918 to 1992. It came into existence following World War I, under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, from the merger of the Kingdom of Serbia with the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and constituted the first union of South Slavic peoples as a sovereign state, following centuries of foreign rule over the region under the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy.
Under the rule of the House of Karađorđević, the kingdom gained international recognition on 13 July 1922 at the Conference of Ambassadors in Paris and was renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 3 October 1929. Peter I was the country's first sovereign. Upon his father's death in 1921, Alexander I went on to rule the country through an extended period of political crisis that culminated in the 6 January Dictatorship and, ultimately, his assassination in 1934. Prince Paul headed the state as a prince regent until Alexander's son Peter II was declared of-age, which happened following the Yugoslav coup d'état in March 1941. Alexander I was the longest reigning of the three Yugoslav monarchs.