The Constitution granted national minorities and ethnic groups the right to their own language. 2 million spoke Slovene, while Macedonian was spoken by 1,200,000 inhabitants. Most of the population spoke Serbo-Croatian – over 12 million people. The languages were all South Slavic, so people from different areas could understand each other. The official languages of Yugoslavia were Serbo-Croatian, Slovene and Macedonian. In 1991, the country had around 23,5 million inhabitants. The SFR of Yugoslavia had 22 national parks and 495 natural monuments. The terrain was varied, with fertile plains in the north, limestone ranges in the east, mountains and hills predominantly in the southeast and a seaside, mainly in Croatia and Montenegro, but also in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia. Yugoslavia had a land area of 255,400 square kilometers and was the 9th largest country in Europe. The largest among them is Serbia, while Montenegro is the smallest. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was made of six republics: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia. In 1992, SFRY became the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and.Įleven years later, in 2003, a state called Serbia and Montenegro was formed.Īnd finally in 2006, Republic of Serbia. The 1963 constitution officially renamed it to Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. A communist government was established and the country was then named the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia. The kingdom was replaced by a federation of six equal republics. In 1946, Socialist Yugoslavia was formed, after the Partisans helped liberate it from the German forces. The Serbian royal House of Karađorđević became Yugoslavia’s royal dynasty.ĭuring World War II, the country was occupied by the Axis Powers. The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was created in 1918 and in 1929 it was renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia (“Land of the South Slavs”) was the name used for three successive countries in Southeastern and Central Europe from 1929 until 2003. Let’s go through all of Yugoslavia’s name changes. You’re interested in expanding your knowledge about Yugoslavia? We’ve prepared a summary of everything you should know about this once glorious country. If you’re in a foreign country or plan to visit one, you naturally want to be familiar with at least brief history and national symbols. He once referred to his Chinese wife as Japanese.The beauty of the internet is that nowadays you can access information easily and save yourself plenty of time you would otherwise spend researching. Hunt is increasingly gaining a reputation for high-profile errors. In a related gaffe reported by local media, the UK’s Slovenian embassy tweeted that Hunt was in the country to meet Karl Erjavec, when in fact he left his role as foreign secretary last year. And not that they are meekly silent, perhaps not even noticing the insult.” “At a minimum what I expect from my representatives is that they will react immediately when someone insults the state and its citizens. “We have never been ‘the vassal state of the Soviet Union’,” he wrote on Facebook. He said they may not even have noticed the “insult”. The former speaker of Slovenia’s national assembly Milan Brglez criticised Hunt for “arrogantly lecturing” his country and rebuked its own politicians for not picking up on the gaffe. ApWt5pli6x- Property Spotter February 22, 2019 Another example of being out of his depth, saying that Slovenia was a "Soviet vassal state", apparently unaware of the history of Yugoslavia.
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