Jugoslavija
Jugoslavija is the name used in Serbo-Croatian and related languages for a South Slavic state or federation that existed in different forms in the Balkans during the 20th and early 21st centuries. The term literally means the land of the south slavs, referencing the ethnolinguistic groups it united.
After World War I, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was established in 1918 as a
Following World War II, the country reconstituted as the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRJ), a
In the late 1980s, nationalism and economic troubles undermined the federation. Slovenia and Croatia declared independence
Today, Jugoslavija primarily appears in historical contexts to describe the former state formations and the political