English
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Etymology
From SH. jugo (south) and slavija (slavia, the land of the Slavs). Literally, the land of the south Slavs.

Alternative spellings
Jugoslavia (common pre-WWII spelling)

Proper noun
Yugoslavia

1. Former country on the Balkan Peninsula. In addition to Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia|the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, and Croatia were also part of the Yugoslav Federation prior to the 1990s.

Translations

Arabic: ARchar|��غ�س�ا��ا (yu�usl�fiya) f
Bosnian: Jugoslavija#Bosnian|Jugoslavija f
Chinese: ���夫 (Nánsīl�fū)
Croatian: Jugoslavija#Croatian|Jugoslavija f
Czech: Jugoslávie#Czech|Jugoslávie f
Dutch: Joegoslavië
Esperanto: Jugoslavio
Finnish: Jugoslavia
French: Yougoslavie f
German: Jugoslavien n
Hungarian: Jugoszlávia
Italian: Jugoslavia, Iugoslavia f
Japanese: �������� (Yūgosuravia)
Korean: �고���� (Yugoseullabia)
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Maltese: il-Jugoslavja
Polish: Jugos�awia f
Portuguese: Jugoslávia (Portugual) f, Iogoslávia (Brazil) f
Russian: Юго�лави� (Jugoslávija) f
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: ��го�лави�а#Serbian|��го�лави�а f
:Roman: Jugoslavija#Serbian|Jugoslavija f
Slovene: Jugoslavija#Slovene|Jugoslavija f
Spanish: Yugoslavia, Yugoeslavia f
Swedish: Jugoslavien

Related terms
Yugoslav

See also
Countries of the world

Category:Countries

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