Yugoslavia
English
editAlternative forms
edit- Jugoslavia (common pre-WWII spelling)
- Yougoslavia
Etymology
editBorrowed from Serbo-Croatian Jugoslavija, in turn from jug (“south”) and slavija (“Slavia, the land of the Slavs”). Literally, the land of the South Slavs.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /juːɡəˈslɑːvi.ə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
editYugoslavia
- (historical) A former country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now-independent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia; it disintegrated in the 1990s.
- (historical, specific) The Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a kingdom ruled by the House of Karađorđević which existed from 1918 to 1941.
- (historical, specific) The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a communist state which existed from 1945 to 1992.
- (historical) The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a rump state formed by Serbia and Montenegro after 1992.
- 1999 March 25, “Air Campaign Against Yugoslavia”, in The New York Times[1], New York:
- Yugoslavia’s President, Slobodan Milosevic, has rejected all efforts at meaningful diplomacy and, in violation of his own previous commitments, has ratcheted up his military campaign against the innocent civilians of Kosovo.
- (historical, nonstandard, by extension) Serbia and Montenegro, after 2003 until 2006, when it disintegrated.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editformer country in the Balkans
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Further reading
editYugoslavia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
See also
editSpanish
editPronunciation
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Proper noun
editYugoslavia f
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