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): /juːɡəˈslɑːviə/

Proper noun

Yugoslavia

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

Translations

former country in the Balkans

• Albanian: Jugosllavia
• Arabic: يُوغُسْلَافِيَا f ‎(yūḡoslāviyā)
• Armenian: Հարավսլավիա ‎(Haravslavia)
• Azeri: Yuqoslaviya
• Belarusian: Югасла́вія f ‎(Juhaslávija)
• Bengali: যুগোশ্লাভিয়া ‎(jugoślabhiya)
• Bulgarian: Югосла́вия f ‎(Jugoslávija)
• Catalan: Iugoslàvia f
• 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: Jugoslawien (de) n
• Greek: Γιουγκοσλαβία (el) f ‎(Giounkoslavía)
• Hawaiian: Iugosolawia
• Hebrew: יוגוסלביה
• Hindi: यूगोस्लाविया ‎(yūgoslāviyā)
• Hungarian: Jugoszlávia (hu)
• Irish: An Iúgslaiv
• Italian: Jugoslavia, Iugoslavia (it) f
• Japanese: ユーゴスラビア ‎(Yūgosurabia), ユーゴスラヴィア ‎(Yūgosuravia)

• Kazakh: Югославия ‎(Ywgoslavïya)
• Korean: 유고슬라비아 (ko) ‎(yugoseullabia)
• Kyrgyz: Югославия ‎(Yugoslaviya)
• Latvian: Dienvidslāvija f
• Macedonian: Југославија (mk) f ‎(Jugoslavija)
• Malay: Yugoslavia
• Maltese: il-Jugoslavja
• Manx: Yn Yugoslaavey
• Persian: یوگسلاوی ‎(Yugoslāvi)
• Polish: Jugosławia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Jugoslávia (pt) f ((Portugal)), Iugoslávia (pt) f ((Brazil))
• Romanian: Iugoslavia f
• Russian: Югосла́вия (ru) f ‎(Jugoslávija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Југо̀сла̄вија f, Југосла̏вија f

  Latin: Jugòslāvija (sh) f, Jugoslȁvija (sh) f

• Slovak: Juhoslávia f
• Slovene: Jugoslávija (sl) f
• Spanish: Yugoslavia (es) f, Yugoeslavia f
• Swedish: Jugoslavien (sv)
• Thai: ยูโกสลาเวีย ‎(yoogòhtlaawia)
• Turkish: Yugoslavya (tr)
• Turkmen: Ýugoslawiýa
• Ukrainian: Югосла́вія f ‎(Juhoslávija)
• Uzbek: Yugoslaviya
• Vietnamese: Nam Tư (vi) (南斯)
• Welsh: Iwgoslafia (cy)

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