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^There was no de jure official language at the federal level, [5] [6] [7] but Serbo-Croatian functioned as the lingua franca of Yugoslavia, being the only language taught throughout the entire country. It was the official language of four federal republics out of six in total: Bosnia and Herzegovina
After receiving this news, the Croatian government bans such a referendum. [33] Milan Babić is elected president of the council. [34] [35] 31 July: The Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina changes its constitution to officially become the home of Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats. 5 August: Creation of the Serbian Democratic Party in Bosnia and ...
Yugoslavia occupied a significant portion of the Balkan Peninsula, including a strip of land on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea, stretching southward from the Bay of Trieste in Central Europe to the mouth of Bojana as well as Lake Prespa inland, and eastward as far as the Iron Gates on the Danube and Midžor in the Balkan Mountains, thus including a large part of Southeast Europe, a region ...
The Allies gradually recognized Tito's forces as the stronger opposition forces to the German occupation. They began to send most of their aid to Tito's Partisans, rather than to the Royalist Chetniks. On 16 June 1944, the Tito–Šubašić agreement was signed which merged the de facto and the de jure government of Yugoslavia.
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 ...
The movement is in stark contrast to Croatia’s recent past, when it was part of the former Yugoslavia, a Communist-run country that protected abortion rights in its constitution 50 years ago.
The government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, established on 28 April 1992 as a rump state by the remaining Yugoslav republics of Montenegro and Serbia, [7] claimed itself as the legal successor state of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; [8] however, on 30 May 1992, United Nations Security Council Resolution 757 was ...
Lampe, John. (1996) Yugoslavia as History: Twice there was a Country. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Patterson, Patrick Hyder. (2011) Bought and Sold: Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. Smith-Peter, Susan. (2019) "Communism and Regionalism."