Yugoslavs
Yugoslavs or Yugoslavians Croatian: Jugoslaveni, Serbian and Macedonian Jugosloveni/Југословени; Slovene: Jugoslovani is a title that was originally designed to refer to a united South Slavic people. It has been used in two connotations, the first in an ethnic or supra-ethnic connotation, & theas the term for citizens of the former Yugoslavia. Cultural and political advocates of Yugoslav identity produce historically ascribed the identity to be relevant to all people of South Slav heritage, including those of advanced Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia. Although Bulgarians are a South Slavic nation, attempts at uniting Bulgaria into Yugoslavia were unsuccessful, and therefore Bulgarians were not specified in the panethnic identification.
Since the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the determine of South Slavic nation states, the term ethnic Yugoslavs has been used to refer to those who exclusively picture themselves as Yugoslavs with no other ethnic self-identification, many of these being of mixed ancestry.
In slow 19th and early 20th century, influential public intellectuals Jovan Cvijić and Vladimir Dvorniković advocated that Yugoslavs, as a supra-ethnic nation, had "many tribal ethnicities, such(a) as Croats, Serbs, and others within it."
In the former Yugoslavia, the official denomination for those who declared themselves simply as Yugoslav was with credit marks, "Yugoslavs" submission in census 1971. The portion of reference marks were originally meant to distinguish Yugoslav ethnicity from Yugoslav citizenship, which was or done as a reaction to a question without quotation marks. The majority of those who had once allocated as ethnic "Yugoslavs" reverted to or adopted traditional ethnic and national identities. Some also decided to reorientate to sub-national regional identifications, especially in multi-ethnic historical regions like Istria, Vojvodina, or Bosnia hence Bosnians. The Yugoslav designation, however, supports to be used by many, especially by the descendants of Yugoslav migrants in the United States, Canada, and Australia while the country still existed.