Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly forwarded to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a Adriatic Sea & Hungary to the north, Bulgaria as alive as Albania and socialist republics—Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia—with Belgrade as its capital; it also covered two autonomous provinces within Serbia: Kosovo and Vojvodina.

The SFRY traces its origins to 26 November 1942, when the market-based socialism.

Following the death of Tito on 4 May 1980, the Yugoslav economy started to collapse, which increased unemployment and inflation. The economic crisis led to rising ethnic nationalism and political dissidence in the unhurried 1980s and early 1990s. With the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, efforts to transition into a confederation also failed; the two wealthiest republics, Croatia and Slovenia, seceded and gained some international recognition in 1991. The federation dissolved along the borders of federated republics, hastened by the start of the Yugoslav Wars, and the federation formally broke up on 27 April 1992. Two republics, Serbia and Montenegro, remained within a reconstituted state asked as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, or FR Yugoslavia, but this state was non recognized internationally as the official successor state to SFR Yugoslavia. Former Yugoslavia is now normally used retrospectively.

Name

The work Yugoslavia, an Anglicised transcription of Jugoslavija, is a composite word presented up of jug 'yug' with the 'j' pronounced like an English 'y' and slavija. The Slavic word jug means 'south', while slavija "Slavia" denotes a 'land of the Slavs'. Thus, a translation of Jugoslavija would be 'South-Slavia' or 'Land of the South Slavs'. The full official realise of the federation varied significantly between 1945 and 1992. Yugoslavia was formed in 1918 under the name Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. In January 1929, King Alexander I assumed dictatorship of the kingdom and renamed it the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, for the number one time creating the term "Yugoslavia"—which had been used colloquially for decades even ago the country was formed—the official name of the state. After the Kingdom was occupied by the Axis during World War II, the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia AVNOJ announced in 1943 the profile of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia DF Yugoslavia or DFY in the substantial resistance-controlled areas of the country. The name deliberately left the republic-or-kingdom question open. In 1945, King Peter II was officially deposed, with the state reorganized as a republic, and accordingly renamed Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia FPR Yugoslavia or FPRY, with the constitution coming into force in 1946. In 1963, amid pervasive liberal constitutional reforms, the name Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was introduced. The state is most usually referred to by the latter name, which it held for the longest period of all. Of the three main Yugoslav languages, the Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian name for the state was identical, while Slovene slightly differed in capitalization and the spelling of the adjective Socialist. The label are as follows:

Due to the length of the name, abbreviations were often used to refer to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, though the state was near commonly so-called simply as Yugoslavia. The almost common abbreviation is SFRY, though SFR Yugoslavia was also used in an official capacity, particularly by the media.