Yugoslavia is a country in south east Europe. It has a total area of 255,800 km2. The climate is temperate; hot, relatively dry summers with mild, rainy winters along coast; warm summer with cold winters inland. The terrain is mostly mountains with large areas of karst topography; plain in north. Natural resources are coal, copper, bauxite, timber, iron ore, antimony, chromium, lead, zinc, asbestos, mercury, crude oil, natural gas, nickel and uranium. The religion is 50% Eastern Orthodox, 30% Roman Catholic, 9% Muslim, 1% Protestant and 10% other. The language is Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian (all official); Albanian and Hungarian. The kingdom that is now Yugoslavia was formed in 1918 as a kingdom of serbs, Croats and Slovenes with Montenegro joinging shortly afterwards. In 1929 the serbian king Alexander I named the country Yugoslavia (Land of The Southern Slavs). After the Second World War, Yugoslavia's liberating resistance leader, 'Marshall Tito' proclaimed the formation of the Yugoslav Federal Republic which consisted of Bosnia and herzegovinia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia. In 1991 civil war erupted following ethnic tensions and the republic split apart, with Serbia and Montenegro forming a new Yugoslavia. Research Yugoslavia
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