Which empire ws Yugoslavia apart of?

Answer 1

Yugoslavia was a united country only between 1918 and 1990s. It was split into different political entities from the Middle Ages to 1918 and the areas it covered had been under several different empires. In antiquity the area was under the Roman Empire. Later, parts of the area were under the Carolingian Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, The Bulgarian Empire, The Serbian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Austrian Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The First Bulgarian Empire (681-1018) included Macedonia, part of Montenegro and much of Serbia. The Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1391) included Macedonia and much of Serbia until the formation of the Serbian Empire (1346-1371) which included Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia.

Macedonia was under the Ottoman Empire from 1395 to 1912 when it joined the Kingdom of Serbia. The Ottoman Turks also conquered Serbia in 1455, Bosnia & Herzegovina in 1463 and Montenegro in 1499. Serbia broke away from Ottoman rule in 1815, becoming the Kingdom of Serbia. Bosnia & Herzegovina came under the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1878 and Montenegro became independent in the same year. The Kingdom of Montenegro joined the Kingdom of Serbia in 1818 and then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1918 Bosnia & Herzegovina became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

In 1526 Croatia decided to be ruled by Ferdinand I of Habsburg in exchange of protection from Ottoman attacks. It was called the Kingdom of Croatia, an administrative unit of the territories of the Habsburg Monarchy which from 1804 to 1867 became the Austrian Empire and from 1867 to 1918 the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1918 it joined the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

In the Early and High Middle Ages Slovenia was under the Carolingian Empire and then the Holy Roman Empire. In the 14th century it came under the rule of the Habsburg Monarchy and then the Austrian Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire until 1918 when it became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.