Yugoslavia - Definition
yugoslavia
n 1: a mountainous republic in southeastern Europe bordering on
the Adriatic Sea; formed from two of the six republics that
made up Yugoslavia until 1992; Serbia and Montenegro were
known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003 when
they adopted the name of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro
[syn: Serbia and Montenegro, Union of Serbia and
Montenegro, Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, Jugoslavija]
2: a former country of southeastern Europe bordering the
Adriatic Sea; formed in 1918 and named Yugoslavia in 1929;
controlled by Marshal Tito as a communist state until his
death in 1980; "Tito's Yugoslavia included Slovenia, Croatia,
Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro"