Yugoslavia

• Jugoslavia (common pre-WWII spelling)
• Yougoslavia

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Jugoslavija, in turn from jug (“south”) and slavija (“Slavia, the land of the Slavs”). Literally, the land of the South Slavs.

• IPA^(key): /juːɡəˈslɑːvi.ə/

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Yugoslavia

1. (historical) A former country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now-independent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia; it disintegrated in the 1990s.
   1. (historical, specific) The Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a kingdom ruled by the House of Karađorđević which existed from 1918 to 1941.
   2. (historical, specific) The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a communist state which existed from 1945 to 1992.
2. (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, 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.

3. (historical, nonstandard, by extension) Serbia and Montenegro, after 2003 until 2006, when it disintegrated.

• Yugosphere
• Yugo-nostalgia / Yugonostalgia

• Yugoslav

• Yugoslavia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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• Rhymes: -abja
• Syllabification: Yu‧gos‧la‧via

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