Yugoslavia

Pronunciation

• IPA: /juːɡəˈslɑːviÉ™/

Origin

Borrowing from sh Jugoslavija, in turn from jugo ("south") and slavija ("slavia, the land of the Slavs"). Literally, the land of the southern Slavs.

Alternative forms

• Jugoslavia (common pre-WWII spelling)

Full definition of Yugoslavia

Proper noun

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

Related terms

• Yugoslav

Derived terms

• Yugosphere
• Yugo-nostalgia
  Yugonostalgia