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Vojislav Kostunica
Vojislav Koštunica , 1944-, Serbian politician, president of Yugoslavia (2000-03) and prime minister of Serbia (2004-8) b. Belgrade. A constitutional lawyer and liberal anticommunist, he lectured at his Belgrade Univ., but was fired (1974) for his criticism of Tito . A free-speech... Read more |
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Ivan Mestrovic
Meštrović, Ivan (1883–1962). Yugoslavian (Croatian)-born sculptor and architect who became an American citizen in 1954. He was born at Vrpolje, into a peasant family, and studied at the Academy in Vienna, 1900–4. In 1908–9 he lived in Paris, where he met Rodin. After... Read more |
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Montreux Convention
Montreux Convention 1936, international agreement regarding the Dardanelles . The Turkish request for permission to refortify the Straits zone was favorably received by nations anxious to return to international legality as well as to gain an ally against German and Italian expansion. The former... Read more |
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Miroslav Krleza
Miroslav Krleza Yugoslavian novelist, poet, essayist, playwright, translator, editor, diarist, polemic writer, lexicographer, and cultural and political force Miroslav Krleza (1893–1981) was a major twentieth century literary voice. Military Years The son of Miroslav (a city... Read more |
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Louis Barthou
Louis Barthou , 1862-1934, French cabinet minister and man of letters. He held portfolios in numerous cabinets after 1894 and was briefly premier in July-Aug., 1913. His government was responsible for the law that increased military service from two to three years. In 1934 he became foreign minister... Read more |
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Medjugorje
Medjugorje Name of a village in Yugoslavia that has been the site of claimed apparitions of the Virgin Mary. The case follows a pattern seen also at Lourdes, La Salette, and Fatima, in which teenage visionaries state that the Virgin has given them "secrets" concerning civilization and... Read more |
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Relations with Yugoslavia
YUGOSLAVIA, RELATIONS WITH The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes was proclaimed on December 1, 1918, and was renamed Yugoslavia on October 3, 1929 by Alexander Karadjordjevic. The creation of the new enlarged South Slav state and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia together ruptured the... Read more |
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Peter II (Yugoslavia)
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... Read more |
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Marshal Tito
Marshal Tito The Yugoslav statesman Marshal Tito (born 1892) became president of Yugoslavia in 1953. He directed the rebuilding of a Yugoslavia devastated in World War II and the welding of Yugoslavia's different peoples into unity until his death in 1980. From its creation in 1918 until is... Read more |
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Vladimir Machek
Vladimir Maček , 1879-1964, Croatian political leader. He headed the Croatian Peasant party from 1928. A vigorous opponent of the dictatorship of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, he fought for Croatian autonomy and was imprisoned several times. After Alexander's death, Maček was granted... Read more |
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