Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (srb)

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ranks 2,220th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Esch-sur-Alzette, Narashino, and Lawrence, Kansas. Memorable people born in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia include Novak Djokovic, Slobodan Živojinović, and Nenad Zimonjić. Memorable people who died in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia include Teofilo Spasojević, Dragutin Najdanović, and Asim Ferhatović. Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has been the birth place of many tennis players and the death place of many soccer players. Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is located in Serbia.

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, known from 1945 to 1963 as the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It was established in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, dissolving amid the onset of the Yugoslav Wars. Spanning an area of 255,804 square kilometres (98,766 sq mi) in the Balkans, Yugoslavia was bordered by the Adriatic Sea and Italy to the west, Austria and Hungary to the north, Bulgaria and Romania to the east, and Albania and Greece to the south. It was a one-party socialist state and federation governed by the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, and had six constituent republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. Within Serbia was the Yugoslav capital city of Belgrade as well as two autonomous Yugoslav provinces: Kosovo and Vojvodina. Read more on Wikipedia