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Iraq War
Iraq War see under Persian Gulf Wars . ... Read more
Milovan Djilas
Milovan Djilas , 1911-95, Yugoslav political leader and writer, b. Montenegro. A Communist party member from 1932, he helped Josip Broz Tito organize volunteers to fight in the Spanish civil war . He was active in the Yugoslav resistance in World War II and after the war rose to high posts in par... Read more
Peter II
Peter II 1923-70, king of Yugoslavia (1934-45). He succeeded under the regency of his cousin, Prince Paul, when his father, King Alexander , was assassinated in Marseilles. In World War II, when Paul's government signed (Mar., 1941) an agreement with the Axis Powers, the army and people of Yugosla... Read more
war crimes
war crimes in international law, violations of the laws of war (see war, laws of ). Those accused have been tried by their own military and civilian courts, by those of their enemy, and by expressly established international tribunals. The records of the war crimes trials after World War II p... Read more
Zog
Zog , 1895-1961, king of Albania. Originally Ahmad Zogu, he came from a Muslim family and served in the Austrian army in World War I. He became Albanian minister of the interior in 1920, minister of war in 1921, and premier in 1922. A revolution in 1924 led to his flight, but he returned with Yugosl... Read more
Napoleonic Wars
Napoleonic Wars 1803-15, the wars waged by or against France under Napoleon I. For a discussion of them see under Napoleon I . ... Read more
Rijeka
Rijeka or Fiume , city (1991 pop. 167,964), W Croatia, on the Adriatic Sea and the Gulf of Quarnero. Croatia's largest seaport, the city's industries include shipbuilding, oil refining, paper milling, and engine building. Dating from Roman times, Rijeka was later held by the Franks. From the 9th... Read more
Belgrade
Belgrade , Serbian Beograd, city (1991 est. pop. 1,168,454), capital of Serbia , and of the former nation of Yugoslavia and its short-lived successor, Serbia and Montenegro, at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers. It is the commercial, industrial, political, and cultural center of Serb... Read more
Macedonia
Macedonia , region, SE Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula, divided among Greece, Bulgaria, and the Republic of Macedonia . Land and People Corresponding roughly with ancient Macedon, it extends from the Aegean Sea northward between Epirus in the west and Thrace in the east and includes the V... Read more
Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz Tito , 1892-1980, Yugoslav Communist leader, marshal of Yugoslavia. He was originally Josip Broz. Rise to Power The son of a blacksmith in a Croatian village, Tito fought in Russia with the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I and was captured by the Russians. He served with dis... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Yugoslav wars"

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Country statistics...Europe. The landlocked Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYRM...see Macedon ) The Balkan Wars (1912–13) ended...government. The break-up of the Yugoslav Federation led to Macedonia...
Yugoslavia
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies ...disputes between the former Yugoslav republics. POPULATION...caused by the devastating Yugoslav wars and the ethnic cleansing...composition before the recent wars included Serbs, 62...OVERVIEW OF ECONOMY The Yugoslav economy is severely damaged...
Bulgaria
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies ...the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1989, the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, economic sanctions , and the Persian...from improving on its 1989 real level of output. The Yugoslav wars interrupted both road and river (the Danube) trade...
Serbs
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Herzegovina and 600,000 lived in Croatia prior to the Yugoslav wars, but they have now been largely expelled from the latter...following World War II and was in existence until the wars of the 1990s, was part of the Soviet Bloc of Communist...
Germany
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies ...from eastern and southern Europe and the Middle East. The country received a considerable number of refugees from the Yugoslav wars in the early 1990s. In 2000 ethnic Germans formed 91.5 percent of the population and the most significant minority...
Draža Mihajlović
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...a Mihajlović , 1893-1946, Yugoslav soldier. He fought with the chetniks, a Serbian guerrilla force, in the Balkan Wars (1912-13) and in World War I, and...appointment (1942) as minister of war by the Yugoslav government-in-exile. An ardent royalist...
Serbia and Montenegro
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the World ...On April 27, 1992, two of the former Yugoslav republics, SERBIA and MONTENEGRO , announced...international outcasts for their role in the civil wars that devastated Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina...militias and the Serbian-controlled Yugoslav Federal Army were accused of massive atrocities...
Croatia
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...independent republic. The Yugoslav National Army was deployed...1995), Croatia and the rump Yugoslav state formally established...in The Hague indicted former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milo...with Croatia. Economy The wars have badly disrupted Croatia...
Albania
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...and protection. Between the wars Italy and Yugoslavia contended...Zog had come to power with Yugoslav aid, he had little alternative...for this revolt should be the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, which...but with the collapse of Yugoslav resistance in the face of the...
Kosovo, NATO Intervention
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security ...date in the transition from Yugoslav communism to Serbian nationalism...Communist party leader in the Yugoslav federation — spoke...Serbian crowd. Milosevic's wars. In 1991, Milosevic became...Westerners began to evacuate the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade. The air...

Dictionary entries related to "Yugoslav wars"

Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of A country which was formerly...founded in 1893. After the first Balkan Wars (1912–13), Macedonia was...Macedonia became a republic within the Yugoslav federation. After the breakup of Yugoslavia...
Yugoslavia, Relations with
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...the twentieth-century Yugoslav state brought together...period between the world wars, U.S. policy toward...implacably hostile to the Yugoslav regime. After Moscow...replace him. Instead, the Yugoslav government was run by...separate states. The wars that followed the breakup...
Denmark
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Protestantism. A sequence of 17th-century wars with Sweden resulted in Denmark's eclipse...supported France during the Napoleonic Wars and in 1814 was forced to cede Norway to...Scandinavian 0.4%; British 0.2%; Yugoslav 0.2% Languages: Danish (official...
Greece
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...time, it provided the basis for its victory in the two Balkan Wars (1912–13), as a result of which Greece doubled...as laid out in the Truman Doctrine , together with the end of Yugoslav assistance to the Communists, which led to the Communists...

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YUGOSLAV WARS: THE "REVENGE OF THE COUNTRYSIDE" BETWEEN SOCIOLOGICAL REALITY AND NATIONALIST MYTH.
Magazine article from: East European Quarterly; 6/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; THE YUGOSLAV WARS AS A "REVENGE OF THE COUNTRYSIDE...rejected the Hobbesian presentation of the Yugoslav wars--the idea of a "war of everyone...First of all, the presentation of the Yugoslav wars as a "revenge of the countryside...
Ramet, Sabrina: Thinking about Yugoslavia: Scholarly Debates about the Yugoslav Breakup and the Wars in Bosnia and Kosovo.(Book review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Scholarly Debates about the Yugoslav Breakup and the Wars in Bosnia and Kosovo...various debates about the Yugoslav civil war. The author...her opinions on the wars. The remaining chapters...Yugoslavia, blame for the Yugoslav wars, personal memoirs and...
The Sarajevo Bombing: Complexity of Yugoslav wars confuses West
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/7/1994; ; 588 words ; ...THE Serbian siege of Sarajevo is but one aspect of the Yugoslav wars, which pit Serbs against Muslims, Muslims against Croats...reluctant to commit themselves to stronger action. The core Yugoslav conflict is between Serbs and Croats who, though collaborators...
The other refugees: Serbs cast off by previous Yugoslav wars
News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/20/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...from the plight of Serbs like her - victims of previous Yugoslav wars. Many of the 500,000 such people remaining in Serbia...double victims because they have been victimized by two wars,'' she says. ``They are the most vulnerable - the...
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Magazine article from: California Bookwatch; 12/1/2006; 700+ words ; ...Essential Histories' considers major wars and their lasting influences...Thomas and K. Mikulan's THE YUGOSLAV WARS (2): BOSNIA, KOSOVO AND MACEDONIA...times. Gregory Fremont-Barnes' WARS OF THE BARBARY PIRATES: TO THE SHORES...
A Faint Path to Truth in Serbia; Yugoslav Panel Probing Wars Lacks Funding, Clout
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/5/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...and bloody events of wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo as the Yugoslav federation broke up in...the beginning of the wars in Bosnia and Croatia...political culpability for the wars, not determining criminal...recently accused the Yugoslav government of shielding...
Red Cross says 31,541 still missing from former Yugoslav wars
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 9/17/2002; ; 458 words ; ...Dateline: GENEVA The International Red Cross said Tuesday that it was still looking for 23,330 people still missing from the wars that broke up former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Many of the missing _ who represent three-quarters of those who vanished _ may...
Wars, disasters, and a budget crunch.(Congress increases Yugoslav war budget in spite of need for domestic spending cuts)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 5/17/1999; ; 553 words ; Congress is on the verge of adding to the Yugoslav war budget as domestic cuts loom. Perhaps this week, lawmakers will spend at least $10 billion on the war, $4 billion more...
Profile: Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic opens his defense against charges of genocide during the Balkan wars
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 2/14/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...0000 Profile: Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic...genocide during the Balkan wars Host: BOB EDWARDS Time...The Hague today, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic...humanity in the Balkan wars of the last decade. The...
Yugoslav Military Arrests American; Diplomat Accused Of Espionage Tied To Milosevic Trial
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/16/2002; ; 700+ words ; The Yugoslav military arrested a U...role of Milosevic in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. The report...particularly from the wars in Bosnia and Croatia in...of Zadar, where he was a Yugoslav army commander in 1991...