Yugoslavia

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Etymology

Borrowing from Serbo-Croatian Jugoslavija, in turn from jugo (“south”) and slavija (“slavia, the land of the Slavs”). Literally, the land of the southern Slavs.

Alternative forms

• Jugoslavia (common pre-WWII spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juːgəˈslɑːviə/

Proper noun

Yugoslavia

1. A former country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now-independent nations of Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, and Croatia; it disintegrated in the 1990s.

Translations

former country in the Balkans

• Albanian: Jugosllavia
• Arabic: يوغوسلافيا f (yughuslaafiya)
• Armenian: Հարավսլավիա (Haravslavia)
• Azeri: Yuqoslaviya
• Belarusian: Югаславія f (Juhaslávija)
• Bengali: যুগোশ্লাভিয়া
• Bulgarian: Югославия f (Jugoslávija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 南斯拉夫 (zh) (Nánsīlāfū)

• Czech: Jugoslávie (cs) f
• Danish: Jugoslavien
• Dutch: Joegoslavië (nl)
• Esperanto: Jugoslavio
• Faroese: Jugoslavia
• Finnish: Jugoslavia (fi)
• French: Yougoslavie (fr) f
• Georgian: იუგოსლავია (iugoslavia)
• German: Jugoslavien n
• Greek: Γιουγκοσλαβία (el) f (Giougkoslavía)
• Hebrew: יוגוסלביה
• Hindi: यूगोस्लाविया (yūgōslāviyā)
• Hungarian: Jugoszlávia (hu)
• Italian: Jugoslavia, Iugoslavia f

• Japanese: ユーゴスラビア (Yūgosurabia), ユーゴスラヴィア (Yūgosuravia)
• Korean: 유고슬라비아 (ko) (Yugoseullabia)
• Latvian: Dienvidslāvija f
• Macedonian: Југославија (mk) f (Jugoslávija)
• Malay: Yugoslavia
• Maltese: il-Jugoslavja
• Manx: Yn Yugoslaavey
• Persian: یوگسلاوی
• Polish: Jugosławia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Jugoslávia (pt) f ((Portugal)), Iugoslávia (pt) f ((Brazil))
• Russian: Югославия (ru) f (Jugoslávija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Југо̀сла̄вија f, Југосла̏вија f

  Latin: Jugòslāvija f, Jugoslȁvija f

• Slovak: Juhoslávia f
• Slovene: Jugoslávija f
• Spanish: Yugoslavia (es) f, Yugoeslavia f
• Swedish: Jugoslavien (sv)
• Thai: ยูโกสลาเวีย (yoogòhtlaawia)
• Turkish: Yugoslavya (tr)
• Ukrainian: Югославія f (Juhoslávija)
• Vietnamese: Nam Tư (vi) (南斯)

Related terms

• Yugoslav

Derived terms

• Yugosphere
• Yugo-nostalgia / Yugonostalgia

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world

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Proper noun

Yugoslavia ?

1. Yugoslavia