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While Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Macedonia interpreted the breakup of Yugoslavia as a definite replacement of the earlier Yugoslav socialist federation with new sovereign equal successor states, newly established FR Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) claimed that it is sole legal successor entitled to the assets as well as automatic memberships in ...
Axis occupation and partition of Yugoslavia in World War II. During World War II, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was occupied and partitioned by the Axis powers and was divided into 3 Axis puppet states: Independent State of Croatia; Italian governorate of Montenegro (later German occupied territory of Montenegro)
Tito meeting with Churchill in Caserta, near Naples, August 1944 First meeting of Tito and Nasser onboard Yugoslav ship Galeb in the Suez Canal, February 1955. This is the list of Tito's foreign trips as the president of the National Committee for the Liberation of Yugoslavia, before the formation of the Provisional Government, i.e. before Tito was internationally recognized as the Prime ...
Yugoslavia (/ ˌ j uː ɡ oʊ ˈ s l ɑː v i ə /; lit. ' Land of the South Slavs ') [a] was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992. It came into existence following World War I, [b] under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from the merger of the Kingdom of Serbia with the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and constituted the ...
Yugoslavia occupied a significant portion of the Balkan Peninsula, including a strip of land on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea, stretching southward from the Bay of Trieste in Central Europe to the mouth of Bojana as well as Lake Prespa inland, and eastward as far as the Iron Gates on the Danube and Midžor in the Balkan Mountains, thus including a large part of Southeast Europe, a region ...
The region of the former Yugoslavia with EU member states (Slovenia 2004, Croatia 2013) in dark green and non-EU states in light green.. The Yugosphere (Macedonian, Slovene and Serbo-Croatian: Jugosfera, Југосфера) is a concept created in 2009 by British writer Tim Judah [1] during his time as a senior visiting fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics. [2]
On July 29, near Junik, a Yugoslav patrol fell into an ambush set up by Albanian soldiers on Yugoslav territory. Soon after, the guard commander rushed with 15 soldiers to aid the patrol. In a fierce battle, Soldier Mileta Gavrović was severely injured. On August 2, near Vrbnica, a Yugoslav border patrol laid a trap for an Albanian sabotage group.
State visit where he met with Governor Rudy Perpich at the Minnesota Governor's Residence, then toured the Twin Cities including the Minnesota State Capitol, culminating in a meeting with various Minnesotan companies at the Minneapolis Radisson Hotel and visiting the Control Data Corporation in Bloomington.