Yugoslavia
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Etymology[edit]
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.
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- Jugoslavia (common pre-WWII spelling)
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Yugoslavia
- 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.
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former country in the Balkans
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