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Axis occupation and partition of Yugoslavia in World War II. During World War II, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was occupied and partitioned by the Axis powers and was divided into 3 Axis puppet states: Independent State of Croatia; Italian governorate of Montenegro (later German occupied territory of Montenegro)
Yugoslavia (/ ˌ j uː ɡ oʊ ˈ s l ɑː v i ə /; lit. ' Land of the South Slavs ') [a] was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992. It came into existence following World War I, [b] under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from the merger of the Kingdom of Serbia with the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and constituted the ...
A historical sovereign state is a state that once existed, but has since been dissolved due to conflict, war, rebellion, annexation, or uprising. This page lists sovereign states, countries, nations, or empires that ceased to exist as political entities sometime after 1453, grouped geographically and by constitutional nature.
The first country in the world to officially recognize the new state was the United States. [2] After the creation of Yugoslavia the newly formed state was a status quo state in Europe which was opposed to revisionist states. [3] In this situation the country prominently was a part of the Little Entente and the first Balkan Pact.
From 1918 to 1922, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia maintained the pre-World War I subdivisions of Yugoslavia's predecessor states. In 1922, the state was divided into 33 oblasts or provinces and, in 1929, a new system of nine banates (in Serbo-Croatian , the word for "banate" is banovina ) was implemented.
The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro [a] or simply Serbia and Montenegro, [b] known until 2003 as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia [c] and commonly referred to as FR Yugoslavia (FRY) or simply Yugoslavia, [d] was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia).
Yugoslavia broke apart in the 1990s to form the following 5 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatia; Republic of Macedonia; Slovenia; Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) In 2003, the FRY was reconstituted as the federation of Serbia and Montenegro. In 2006, it was split into the separate countries of: Montenegro; Serbia; See also: Kosovo
Spain–Yugoslavia relations were post-World War I historical foreign relations between Spain (Restoration Spain, Second Spanish Republic, Francoist Spain or Spanish Republican government in exile and contemporary kingdom till 1992) and the now divided Yugoslavia (Kingdom or Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).