Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia
A former country in south-east Europe. At the end of World War I it was formed as the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, from the former Slavic provinces of Austria-Hungary (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina), together with Serbia and Montenegro, and with Macedonian lands ceded from Bulgaria. The monarch of Serbia, Peter I , was to rule the new kingdom and was succeeded by his son Alexander I . At first the Serbian Premier Nikola Pasic ( 1921 – 26 ) held the rival nations together, but after his death political turmoil caused the new king to establish a royal dictatorship, renaming the country Yugoslavia ( January 1929 ). Moves towards democracy ended with his assassination ( 1934 )....

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