Yugoslavia





Yugoslavia is a term casually used for three separate political entities.

The first was a kingdom formed in 1918 under name Kingdom of Serbs, Croats
and Slovenes, whose name changed name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929
and existed under that name until it was invaded in 1941 by Axis powers.

The second was a Communist state established immediately after World War II
in 1945 under the name Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, which in 1946 changed
its name to the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and again in 1963 to
the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, under which it existed until
1991-1992 when four of its six constituent republics Slovenia, Croatia,
Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina separated.

As a result a federation named Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was formed
between the remaining republics of Serbia and Montenegro, which in 2003
remade its internal structure into a loose commonwealth and changed its name
to Serbia and Montenegro.

Country code: YU