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Yugoslavia

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.

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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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Key facts

Former country.cctld: .yu
Former country.conventional_long_name: Yugoslavia
Former country.native_name: /
Former country.common_name: Yugoslavia
Former country.life_span: 1918–19921941–1945: Axis occupation
Former country.p1: Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia
Former country.flag_p1: State Flag of Serbia (1882-1918).svg
Former country.p2: Kingdom of MontenegroMontenegro
Former country.flag_p2: Flag of the Kingdom of Montenegro.svg
Former country.p3: State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs
Former country.flag_p3: Flag of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs.svg
Former country.p4: Austria-Hungary
Former country.flag_p4: Flag of Austria-Hungary (1867-1918).svg
Former country.p7: Free State of FiumeFiume
Former country.flag_p7: Flag of the Free State of Fiume.svg
Former country.s1: Croatia
Former country.flag_s1: Flag of Croatia (1990).svg
Former country.s2: Slovenia

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Research

14,187 papers

Neuroscience in Yugoslavia.ReviewTrends in neurosciences · 1991Kostović I, Judas MDOI: 10.1016/0166-2236(91)90098-f
Yugoslavia.Department of State publication. Background notes series · 1989United States. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs
Yugoslavia.Department of State publication. Background notes series · 1985United States. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs
Historical review: Towards the 50th anniversary of the last major smallpox outbreak (Yugoslavia, 1972).ReviewTravel medicine and infectious disease · 2022Ilic I, Ilic MDOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2022.102327
Research in Yugoslavia.ReviewPsychopharmacology bulletin · 1971Bohacĕk N
Selenium status in soils in Yugoslavia.ReviewJournal of environmental pathology, toxicology and oncology : official organ of the International Society for Environmental Toxicology and Cancer · 1998Jović V
From Yugoslavia.Annals of the rheumatic diseases · 1991Dürrigl TDOI: 10.1136/ard.50.9.649
What Yugoslavia means: progress, nationalism, and health.ReviewHealth transition review : the cultural, social, and behavioural determinants of health · 1996Kunitz SJ

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Королевство сербов, хорватов и словенцев
Demonym: Jugoslawinnen
Population: 11998000
Area: 255804
Calling code: +38

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dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1992-04-27
Commons category: Yugoslavia
inception: 1918-12-01
Commons gallery: Jugoslavija
trunk prefix: 0
short name: Югославия

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Contents

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

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.