Yugoslavia
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- Jugoslavia (common pre-WWII spelling)
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Jugoslavija, in turn from jug (“south”) and slavija (“slavia, the land of the Slavs”). Literally, the land of the southern Slavs.
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Proper noun[edit]
Yugoslavia
- (historical) A former country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now-independent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, and Slovenia; it disintegrated in the 1990s.
- The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- (nonstandard) Serbia and Montenegro.
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Translations[edit]
former country in the Balkans
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Proper noun[edit]
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