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Former European country
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yugoslavia
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Word definitions for yugoslavia in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yugoslavia \Yu*go"slav"i"a\, n. A mountainous republic in southeastern Europe [syn: [Yugoslavia],[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia], [Jugoslavija],
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Yugoslavia ( Bosnian , Croatian , Slovene : Jugoslavija ; Serbian , Macedonian : Југославија) was a country in Southeast Europe during most of the 20th century. It came into existence after World War I in 1918 under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1929 (earlier the country was Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes ); from Yugoslav + -ia . The name vanished from the map in 2003.
Usage examples of yugoslavia.
In the distance far below, Robert could see the other balloons rising and moving east toward Yugoslavia.
When Lawrence Eagleburger left the State Department in 1984, having been ambassador to Yugoslavia, he became simultaneously a partner of Kissinger Associates, a director of a wholly owned banking subsidiary of the Ljubljanska Banka, a bank then owned by the Belgrade regime, and the American representative of the Yugo mini-car.
Yugoslavia that still had a common Yugoslav representation, although with decreasing authority and unity.
New Yugoslavia had been deeded to the Kashubian Expeditionary Forces as part payment for a war we had fought for New Croatia.
It had been quarried from a site in Krapina, Yugoslavia, by a timelock team that had frozen the moment 110,000 years before.
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Cuba, South Yemen, Congo-Brazzaville, North Vietnam, Guinea-Bissau, Cambodia, Laos, South Vietnam, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the Seychelles, Grenada, and Afghanistan.
The students wanted to establish contact with other parts of Yugoslavia but, apart from muted echoes in Ljubljana, no one else took action.
Like the former Yugoslavia, Iraq was a multiethnic state that had been held together by a dictator.
The Paris Commune did it, as well as such partisans as the Titoists in Yugoslavia, the Maquis in France, and, before them, the Max-Hoelz Brigade in Weimar Germany.
Chicago and Albany, in Yugoslavia and Puerto Rico, in Finland and New Zealand and Framingham, Massachusetts, among Japanese men living in Hawaii and Japanese physicians living in Japan, among West Australians, Trinidadians, and British civil servants, among 276,802 men followed for twelve years by the American Cancer Society, among 87,526 women nurses and 51,529 male health professionals in separate studies at Harvard, and among 123,840 patients at the Kaiser Permanente medical centers in the Bay Area.
Although still unable to penetrate high-level Soviet ciphers, the agency had broken the cipher systems of more than forty nations, including Italy, France, the United Arab Republic, Indonesia, Uruguay, and even some Soviet satellite countries, such as Yugoslavia.
Sure, there were little telltale signs like the Soviets marching through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Mongolia, Turkmenia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirgizia, Poland, Moldavia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Cuba, South Yemen, Congo-Brazzaville, North Vietnam, Guinea-Bissau, Cambodia, Laos, South Vietnam, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the Seychelles, Grenada, and Afghanistan.
On his watch, the Soviets consolidated their control over Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, eastern Germany to the Elbe River, Yugoslavia, and North Korea to the 38th parallel.
It did not appear to affect the true Zetas at the Centre, but when I expressed my intention of visiting Yugoslavia, Margaret insisted on accompanying me even though it meant breaking off a piece of research she was particularly involved in.
At the outset of the breakup of Yugoslavia, if we had had this type of capability, without potentially high costs, to counter effectively the widely predicted invasion of Bosnia, the U.