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Yugoslavia
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Yugoslavia |
Introduction:
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The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes was formed in 1918; its name was changed to Yugoslavia in 1929. Occupation by Nazi Germany in 1941 was resisted by various partisan bands that fought themselves as well as the invaders. The group headed by Marshal TITO took full control upon German expulsion in 1945. Although communist in name, his new government successfully steered its own path between the Warsaw Pact nations and the West for the next four and a half decades. In the early 1990s, post-TITO Yugoslavia began to unravel along ethnic lines
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| Official name: |
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Capital: |
Belgrade |
| Government type: |
republic |
| Population: |
10,677,290
note: all data dealing with population is subject to considerable error because of the dislocations caused by military action and ethnic cleansing (July 2001 est.) |
| Languages: |
Serbian 95%, Albanian 5% |
| Official Currency: |
new Yugoslav dinar (YUM); note - in Montenegro the German deutsche mark is legal tender (1999) |
| Currency code: |
YUM |
| Area: |
total: 102,350 sq km
land: 102,136 sq km
water: 214 sq km |
| Climate: |
in the north, continental climate (cold winters and hot, humid summers with well distributed rainfall); central portion, continental and Mediterranean climate; to the south, Adriatic climate along the coast, hot, dry summers and autumns and relatively cold winters with heavy snowfall inland |
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Map of Yugoslavia
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