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No. Yugoslavia as a country did not exist during the war. It was created because of the war, in the post-war Treaty of Versailles process. Much of Yugoslavia had been part of the Austro-Hungarian (Hapsburg) Empire, and perhaps some of it had been part of the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire, both of which were on the losing side in the war. Serbia had been an independent nation for about fifty years before WWI, and was a part of the new Yugoslavia. It was a Serb, in a terrorist group backed by the Serbian intelligence service, who murdered the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, striking the spark which started WWI.

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