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Yugoslavia’s different ethnic groups began to have conflicts. In 1991 and 1992 Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia (now called North Macedonia), and Bosnia and Herzegovina declared themselves independent. Serbia fought to keep those republics part of Yugoslavia. A bloody civil war raged until 1995.
A state cobbled together out of many different South Slav peoples with long, separate histories, it was strained by nationalist pressures from its inception. Yugoslavia included what are now Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia.
29 sie 2024 · This article briefly examines the history of Yugoslavia from 1929 until 2003, when it became the federated union of Serbia and Montenegro (which further separated into its component parts in 2006). For more detail, see the articles Serbia , Montenegro , and Balkans .
16 paź 2023 · The Yugoslav Wars were a series of conflicts fought in the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 2001. Images for kids. Photo of ambushed JNA tanks near Nova Gorica, on the border with Italy. Destroyed Serbian house in Sunja, Croatia. Most Serbs fled during Operation Storm in 1995.
9 sie 2024 · Yugoslavia came into existence in 1918 after World War I. Most of its northern territories were given to it from Austria-Hungary when it collapsed during the war. Southern territories were taken by Serbia from the Ottoman Empire during the Balkan Wars (1912-13).
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of armed conflicts on the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) that took place between 1991 and 2001. This article is a timeline of relevant events preceding, during, and after the wars. Timeline. Tito-era. 1945.
Yugoslavia became a communist nation by the end of World War II under a dictator named Tito. By the 1980s and 1990s, the region went to war to break up and become independent nations.
