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=== Yugoslavia ===
[[File:Breakup of Yugoslavia.gif|thumb|250px|The breakup of the [[SFR Yugoslavia|Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]]]]
The first country to be known by this name was the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]], known until 3 October 1929 as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. It was established on 1 December 1918 by the union of the [[State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs|State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs]] and the [[Kingdom of Serbia]] (to which the [[Kingdom of Montenegro]] had been annexed on 13 November 1918), and the [[Conference of Ambassadors]] gave international recognition to the union on 13 July 1922.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.orderofdanilo.org/en/family/index.htm|title=Interesting things about the royal order of Montenegro – Untitled|website=Orderofdanilo|access-date=22 October 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090516203805/http://www.orderofdanilo.org/en/family/index.htm|archive-date=16 May 2009}}</ref>

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was invaded by the [[Axis powers]] in 1941 and abolished as a result of [[World War II]]. It was succeeded by Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, proclaimed in 1943 by the [[Yugoslav Partisans]] resistance movement. When a communist government was established in 1946, the country was renamed the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. In 1963, it was renamed again, becoming the [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] (SFRY). This was the largest Yugoslav state, with [[Istria]] and [[Rijeka]] having been added after World War II.

The country consisted of six constituent "socialist republics" ([[SR Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[SR Croatia]], [[SR Macedonia]], [[SR Montenegro]], [[SR Slovenia]], and [[SR Serbia]]) and two "socialist autonomous provinces" ([[SAP Vojvodina]] and [[SAP Kosovo]], which became largely equal to other members of the federation after 1974).<ref>{{cite book |last=Huntington |first=Samuel P. |title=The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=0-684-84441-9 |year=1996 |page=[https://archive.org/details/clashofcivilizat00hunt/page/260 260] |title-link=The Clash of Civilizations }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/kosovo/110492.stm |title=History, bloody history |work=BBC News |date=March 24, 1999 |access-date=December 29, 2010}}</ref>

Starting in 1991, the SFRY disintegrated in the [[Yugoslav Wars]], which followed the secession of most of the country's constituent entities. The next Yugoslavia, known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, existed until 2003, when it was renamed [[Serbia and Montenegro]]. In 2006, this last vestige separated into Serbia and Montenegro, but only to go further in 2008 after [[Kosovo]] unilaterally declared its independence but with limited recognition.