![]() Serbia contained two Socialist Autonomous Provinces, Vojvodina and Kosovo, which after 1974 were largely equal to the other members of the federation. The six constituent republics that made up the SFRY were the SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SR Croatia, SR Macedonia, SR Montenegro, SR Serbia, and SR Slovenia. In 1963, the country was renamed again, as the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito ruled the country as president until his death in 1980. It acquired the territories of Istria, Rijeka, and Zadar from Italy. Yugoslavia was renamed the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia in 1945, when a communist government was established. The monarchy was subsequently abolished in November 1945. In 1944 King Peter II, then living in exile, recognised it as the legitimate government. In 1943, a Democratic Federal Yugoslavia was proclaimed by the Partisan resistance. Yugoslavia was invaded by the Axis powers on 6 April 1941. The official name of the state was changed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 3 October 1929. ![]() The kingdom gained international recognition on 13 July 1922 at the Conference of Ambassadors in Paris. ![]() Peter I of Serbia was its first sovereign. It came into existence after World War I in 1918 under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes by the merger of the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (which was formed from territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire) with the Kingdom of Serbia, and constituted the first union of the South Slavic people as a sovereign state, following centuries in which the region had been part of the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary. ' South Slavic Land') was a country in Southeast Europe and Central Europe for most of the 20th century. Yugoslavia ( / ˌ j uː ɡ oʊ ˈ s l ɑː v i ə/ Serbo-Croatian: Jugoslavija / Југославија Slovene: Jugoslavija Macedonian: Југославија lit.
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