Yugoslavia

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Jugoslavija, in turn from jugo (south) and slavija (slavia, the land of the Slavs). Literally, the land of the southern Slavs.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /juːɡəˈslɑːvi.ə/

Proper noun

Yugoslavia

  1. A former country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now-independent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo and Slovenia; it disintegrated in the 1990s.

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See also

  • Appendix:Countries of the world

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɟ͡ʝuɡosˈlabja/, [ɟ͡ʝuɣosˈlaβja]

Proper noun

Yugoslavia ?

  1. Yugoslavia
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