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Yugoslavia was created by the Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Montenegro in 1918. The two states formed a union and accepted the former provinces of Austria-Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia as their partners in the new country.

Yugoslavia essentially means "the land of the south Slavs". "Yug" (pronounced "youg") means "South" in Serbian and Croatian.


Macedonia was carved up from the southern part of Serbia. It did not exist prior to 1945 and was thus not in the "original" Yugoslavia.


After WWII, Yugoslavia was made up of 6 republics: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia.

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