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- Yugoslavia
[.jugo'slɑvɪə]
[.juːgəu'slɑːvjə]
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南斯拉夫[巴尔干半岛西北部国家，靠亚得里亚海；首都贝尔格莱德]
Collins English-English Dictionary
- Yugoslavia
["juːgəυ'slɒːvɪə]
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a former country in SE Europe, on the Adriatic: established in 1918 from the independent states of Serbia and Montenegro, and regions that until World War I had belonged to Austria-Hungary (Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina); the name was changed from Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes to Yugoslavia in 1929; German invasion of 1941--44 was resisted chiefly by a Communist group led by Tito, who declared a people's republic in 1945; it became the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1963; in 1991 Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina declared independence, followed by Macedonia in 1992; Serbia and Montenegro formed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, subsequently (2003) replaced by the Union of Serbia and Montenegro
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The war widowed many women in the former yugoslavia.
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在前南斯拉夫，战争使许多妇女成为寡妇。
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