lunes, 10 de noviembre de 2008

Introduction Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia was formed by five actual countries: Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Slovenia, and for some countries also Kosovo (because Kosovo declared independence in 17/02/2008, but it is not officially recognized as independent for the international community, although many countries had recognized Kosovo as an independent nation). Yugoslavia was founded at the beginning as the Kingdom of Croats, Serbs and Slovenes in 1918 after the end of the Great War.

Yugoslavia was a republic with four different official languages, that divides very different cultures that where also divided in many religions. Also the distribution of population make Yugoslavia a conflictive nation because Montenegrins where the 2,6%, Slovenes 7,8%, Serbs 36,3%, Albanians 8% and Hungarians 2%. There are very big differences between the largest population (Serbs) and the others, giving in the Yugoslav’s democracy an important inequality, also because all those different cultures are very diverse, for their varied historical provenience. The distribution of Religion is also very diverse: Catholic 30,8%, Orthodox 45,4%, Muslim 17%. All these differences will generate terrible conflicts in Yugoslavian history, not only during the Federal socialist republic of Yugoslavia (countries formal name) but before its creation and also after its fragmentation that started in 1991. The international intervention since the foundation of the union has been decisive for Yugoslav policies and changes, from the motivation after the Great War to the Bombardments at the ends of Yugoslavia.
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