Yugoslavia

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Alternative spellings 1.3 Proper noun 1.4 Translations 1.5 Related terms 1.6 See also

English

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian jugo (south) and slavija (slavia, the land of the Slavs). Literally, the land of the south Slavs.

Alternative spellings

• Jugoslavia (common pre-WWII spelling)

Proper noun

Yugoslavia

1. Former country on the Balkan Peninsula (now Serbia and Montenegro). In addition to Serbia and Montenegro, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, and Croatia were also part of the Yugoslav Federation prior to the 1990s.

Translations

Arabic: يوغوسلافيا (yuğuslá:fiya) f. Bosnian: Jugoslavija f. Chinese: 南斯拉夫 (Nánsīlāfū) Croatian: Jugoslavija f. Esperanto: Jugoslavio Dutch: Joegoslavië Finnish: Jugoslavia French: Yougoslavie f. German: Jugoslavien n. Hungarian: Jugoszlávia Italian: Jugoslavia, Iugoslavia f. Japanese: ユーゴスラヴィア (Yūgosuravia) Korean: 유고슬라비아 (Yugoseullabia)

Polish: Jugosławia f. Portuguese: Jugoslávia (Portugual) f., Iogoslávia (Brazil) f. Russian: Югославия (Jugoslávija) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: Југославија f. Roman: Jugoslavija f. Slovene: Jugoslavija f. Spanish: Yugoslavia, Yugoeslavia f. Swedish: Jugoslavien

Related terms

• Yugoslav

See also

• Countries of the worldet:Yugoslavia

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