Yugoslavia

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A former country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now-independent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, and Slovenia; it disintegrated in the 1990s.
• The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• Serbia and Montenegro.

Origin

• Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Jugoslavija, in turn from jug and slavija. Literally, the land of the South Slavs.