- Serbia - Encyclopedia. com
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- Yugoslavia - Encyclopedia. com
YUGOSLAVIA THE LAND AND PEOPLE ECONOMY CULTURE AND THE ARTS HISTORY AND POLITICS BIBLIOGRAPHY Yugoslavia (meaning "South Slavia" or "land of the South Slavs"), was created twice in the twentieth century—both times after a world war—and it disintegrated twice: the first time because of an invasion and partition during the Second World War and the second time at the end of the Cold War
- Multi-Ethnic Conflict: Yugoslavia | Encyclopedia. com
Only Serbia and Montenegro remained together as one nation called Serbia The new nations of Slovenia and Macedonia proved somewhat stable, but conflict raged among the Serbs, Bosnians, and Croats in the other three nations of Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Croatia The ethnic war would eventually be the bloodiest war in Europe since World War II
- Treaty Of San Stefano | Encyclopedia. com
Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro received their independence, along with territorial enlargement Turkey was obliged strictly to observe concessions for local participation in government that were inherent in the Organic Regulation of 1868 on Crete, while analogous regimes were to be implemented in Thessaly and Albania
- Triple Alliance and Triple Entente - Encyclopedia. com
Triple Alliance [1] and Triple Entente (äntänt´), two international combinations of states that dominated the diplomatic history of Western Europe [2] from 1882 until they came into armed conflict in World War I [3]
- Arkans Tigers (or Serbian Volunteer Guard) | Encyclopedia. com
With a force that left even some Nazis shocked, the Ustasha carried out a program of genocide and forced religious conversion against Croatia and Bosnia's Serb population The Serbs responded with the creation of a force known as the Chetniks—a loose alliance of Serb nationalists and royalists—seeking the creation of a Greater Serbia
- Gavrilo Princip - Encyclopedia. com
Princip later claimed that he intended one shot for General Oskar Potiorek, military governor of Bosnia, but the shot felled the duchess instead One month later, on July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary had found the reason it sought to enter into war It held Serbia accountable for the actions of Gavrilo Princip and declared war
- The Willy-Nicky Telegrams - Encyclopedia. com
But more powerful people within Austria-Hungary—including the leader of Austria's armed forces—saw the murder as an opportunity to teach Serbia a lesson and gain more power in the Balkans (a group of countries occupying the Balkan Peninsula, including the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Serbia, Bulgaria
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