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Yugoslavia was created after the end of World War I (1914-18). It means land of the southern Slavs, uniting various Slavic principalities in the Balkans. It was built around the Serbian Kingdom which had been part of the Allied coalition which won the War. The Slavic populated provinces of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire (Bosnia, Croatia, and Slovenia) were added to form Yugoslavia. Serbia was the dominant component which was resented by the minority regions, especially Croatia. Serbian and Coatian nationalism proved to be major dusrupting problems. There were also minority non-Slav groups (Germans, Hungarians, Jews, and Kosovars/Albanians.) We we are working on pages for the modern countries which developed out of Yugoslavia: Bosnia, Croatia Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. We see each of these regions increasingly enter the modern European sociy. We still see some people wearing traditionl clothing, but far fewer and mostly only in rural areas. The children in particular after World War I in the 1920s and 30s are increasingly wearing standard European styles.
All these provinces have histories that predate Yugoslavia and which now continue after the breakup of Yugoslavia at the end of the Cold War. We also have a page on Kosovo, the future status of which is still undecided. Yugoslavia disentigrated in the 1990s resulting in a bitter series of internal wars as Serbia attempted to prevent withdrawl of the various constiuent parts. Until Putin invaded Ukraine, these were the last wars in Europe.
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