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Derivative work of History_of_Yugoslavia.svg by NikNaks. Portions used contain parts of: Blank_map_of_Europe_1929-1938.svg and Blank_map_of_Europe_1956-1990.svg by Alphathon. These are in turn were derived from Blank map of Europe (with disputed regions).svg by maix, W!B:, Zirland, MrWeeble, CarolSpears, TimothyBourke, Collard, F7, Alphathon ...
April 25: Đuro Đaković, a prominent Trade unions' activist in Yugoslavia and the First secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, was murdered by Yugoslav policemen at the Yugoslav-Austrian boundary in the present-day Slovenia, after four days of torturing and questioning in Zagreb police station.
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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 ...
English: Country merger dates in the creation of Yugoslavia, color-coded: 25 November 1918 — Banat, Bačka and Baranja into the Kingdom of Serbia; 26 November 1918 — Kingdom of Montenegro into the Kingdom of Serbia; 1 December 1918 — State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs with the Kingdom of Serbia
The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.
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 ...