Yugoslavia
English
Alternative forms
- Jugoslavia (common pre-WWII spelling)
- Yougoslavia
Etymology
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Jugoslavija, in turn from jug (“south”) and slavija (“Slavia, the land of the Slavs”). Literally, the land of the South Slavs.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /juːɡəˈslɑːvi.ə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Proper noun
Yugoslavia
- (historical) A former country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now-independent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia; it disintegrated in the 1990s.
- (historical) The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a rump state formed by Serbia and Montenegro after 1992.
- (historical, nonstandard, by extension) Serbia and Montenegro, after 2003 until 2006, when it disintegrated.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
former country in the Balkans
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Further reading
Yugoslavia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
See also
- Appendix:Countries of the world
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ʝuɡosˈlabja/ [ɟ͡ʝu.ɣ̞osˈla.β̞ja]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃuɡosˈlabja/ [ʃu.ɣ̞osˈla.β̞ja]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒuɡosˈlabja/ [ʒu.ɣ̞osˈla.β̞ja]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -abja
- Syllabification: Yu‧gos‧la‧via
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