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- Scope Note
- Created as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in 1918. Yugoslavia became the official name in 1929. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia formed independent countries and split from Yugoslavia April 7, 1992. Macedonia, one of the Yugoslav republics, became an independent country February 8, 1994 as The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- Broader Keyword
- EUROPE, SOUTHEASTERN
- Related Keyword
- BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
- CROATIA
- MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF
- SLOVENIA