Former Countries

 

Hi everyone !! I'm here again and this is my first blog of this semester. Today I´m going to talk about my favourite country. 

Well, I don`t have a favourite country, I would like many countries to know, mainly those that no longer exist on the map,  either due to war conflicts or international agreements , among then I can name Palestine, the countries of the former URSS , Yugoslavia,  Czechoslovakia, or provinces on conflict such as Kosovo.

This time I will  write about Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia  was a country in Southeast Europe and Central Europe for most of the 20th century. It came into existence after World War I in 1918 under the name of the Kingdon of Serbs, Croats and Slovens following centuries in which the region had been part of the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary.  The official name of the state was changed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 3 October 1929.

 Yugoslavia was renamed the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946, when a communist government was established. Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito ruled the country as president until his death in 1980. In 1963, the country was renamed again, as the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).

The six constituent republics that made up the SFRY were the SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SR Croatia, SR Macedonia, SR Montenegro, SR Serbia, and SR Slovenia.  After an economic and political crisis in the 1980s and the rise of nationalism, Yugoslavia broke up along its republics' borders, at first into five countries, leading to the Yugoslav Wars. Political and military leaders from the former Yugoslavia were tried for war crimes, genocide, and other crimes committed during those wars.

After the breakup, the republics of Montenegro and Serbia formed a reduced federative state, Serbia and Montenegro, known officially until 2003 as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). This state aspired to the status of sole legal successor to the SFRY, but those claims were opposed by the other former republics. In 2003 its official name was changed to Serbia and Montenegro. This state dissolved when Montenegro and Serbia each became independent states in 2006, while Kosovo proclaimed its independence from Serbia in 2008.