Yugoslavia
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5.1
- proper noun
- /ˌjuːɡəˈslɑːviə/
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Yugoslavia
- A smaller number of Magyars also moved to Hungary from Yugoslavia, with Serbs and Croats moving in the opposite direction.
- former Yugoslavia
- disintegration of Yugoslavia
- Yugoslavia came apart
The next two months see Yugoslavia come extremely close to royal dictatorship.
- The next two months see Yugoslavia come extremely close to royal dictatorship.
- And so when Yugoslavia fell apart, they divided along cultural lines.
- They were from modern oh, Croatia, more or less the Balkan peninsula of the former Yugoslavia.
- In the former Yugoslavia, Serbian and Croatian are almost the same language.
- I, I won't spoil the book too much, but I grew up in Yugoslavia with mixed background, but I'm not going to get into that now.
- And he reminds me of the figures I covered in Yugoslavia, who rose up from the swamp of Tito's decayed Yugoslavia.
- I know them just from recent history, which you can read the former Yugoslavia, things explode.
- So, so with the the after the first platoon, I deployed to Yugo, we deployed to Yugoslavia, to Bosnia.
- Pyrus was the king of a Pyrus, which was rising as a power in what is nowadays part of Yugoslav or what was Yugoslavia.
- We wanted in France, wanted the Yugoslavia, manages to leave through a rather shady deal and returns home to Egypt a victor.
Examples
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There's been a setback in the ongoing effort to secure peace in the former Yugoslavia.
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The breakup of Yugoslavia was simply the last act of a long play.
Academic text (2008) -
My family came here from former Yugoslavia when I was young.
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And so when Yugoslavia fell apart, they divided along cultural lines.
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The wars in the former Yugoslavia need to be understood in this context.
Academic text (1999) -
In the former Yugoslavia, Serbian and Croatian are almost the same language.
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The decomposition of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia seems to confirm this thesis.
Academic text (1999) -
The story explained that ethnic cleansing would rid Yugoslavia of the Muslim Bosniaks.
Fiction book (1994) -
My family came here from Yugoslavia when I was young.
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After the conflicts in Yugoslavia, many people sought refuge in other countries.
Compounds
The official name from 1992 to 2003 for the union of Serbia and Montenegro
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yugoslavia comes from two Slavic parts: jug ('south') and Slav- ('Slavs'), so it means 'land of the South Slavs' and explains why the country brought together several southern Slavic peoples.