Ethnic Violence Erupts in Yugoslavian Provinces
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History
- Subcategories: Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Wars, Battles, Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Human Rights, Civil Wars, Coups, Violence, Cold War
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Eastern European History
- Geographical Location: Balkans, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Croatia
- Date: July-November, 1988
Article abstract: Centuries-old ethnic tensions and contemporary economic problems fueled political jockeying for position in the largest republic of Yuglosavia.
Summary of Event
Yugoslavia, the most clearly multiethnic state in East Central Europe, contained five major South Slavic groups: Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, and Macedonians. It also contained more than a dozen non-Slavic groups, such as Albanians, Magyars, Turks, Czechs, Slovaks, Russians, Gypsies, Italians, Romanians, Vlachs, Poles, Germans, and Ruthenians. Hatred and discrimination...
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