Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia 1929 (earlier the country was Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes); from YUGOSLAV (Cf. Yugoslav) + -IA (Cf. -ia). The name vanished from the map in 2003.

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