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During the funeral Albanian-owned shops are attacked by mobs. [7] 10 September: Reform of the Serbian constitution. 24 September: During the 8th Session of the League of Communists of Serbia, Milošević defeats Ivan Stambolić, who later resigns. November: The Helsinki Committee of Yugoslavia was founded. 9 December
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 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was created by the unification of the Kingdom of Serbia (the Kingdom of Montenegro had united with Serbia five days previously, while the regions of Kosovo, Vojvodina and Vardar Macedonia were parts of Serbia prior to the unification) and the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (itself formed from territories of the former Austria-Hungary ...
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 ...
Borisav Jović was a close ally and advisor of Slobodan Milošević and served as the Serbian member of the collective Presidency of Yugoslavia during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He served as the Vice President of the Yugoslav Presidency from 1989 to 1990 and then as the President of Yugoslavia from 1990 to 1991.
The Dalmatian Croat politician Ante Trumbić became a prominent South Slavic leader during the war and led the Yugoslav Committee that lobbied the Allies to support the creation of an independent Yugoslavia. [15] Trumbić faced initial hostility from Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pašić, who preferred an enlarged Serbia over a unified Yugoslav ...
The party's leader Mehmed Spaho was sentenced to twenty days in jail because of the document. [2] January 31: Vladko Maček arrested in relation with the Zagreb Points. April 29: Vladko Maček sentenced to three years in jail. July 14: Josip Predavec, vice-president of the Croatian Peasant Party, was killed in Dugo Selo.
League of Communists of Yugoslavia: Augustin Papić: 1917–2002 30 June 1971 15 May 1974 League of Communists of Yugoslavia: 1: Cvijetin Mijatović: 1913–1993 15 May 1974 15 May 1984 League of Communists of Yugoslavia: President of the Presidency: 15 May 1980 – 15 May 1981. 2: Branko Mikulić: 1928–1994 15 May 1984 15 May 1986 League of ...