How Yugoslavia vanished from maps

How Yugoslavia vanished from maps

A REGION TRANSFORMED

1- Created out of the ashes of Austria-Hungary's defeat in
WWI, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes - changed
to Yugoslavia in 1929 - was in theory a single autonomous state,
but ethnic tensions were not far from the surface.

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2-After invasion and a series of overlapping civil wars in
WWII, a lid was kept on national aspirations by the creation
of a federation of six nominally equal republics. In Serbia,
Kosovo and Vojvodina were given autonomous status. But from
1991 Yugoslavia fell apart.
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3-A series of splits saw the bloodiest fighting in Croatia and
Bosnia. A peace deal created the self-governing Bosnian Serb
Republic (Republika Srpska) and Muslim Croat Federation.
Kosovo become a UN protectorate after inter-ethnic fighting
and Nato bombardment in 1999.
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4-In 2003 Yugoslavia disappeared from the map of Europe.
Replaced for a short time by the looser union of Serbia and
Montenegro, the latter broke away in 2006. Two years later,
Kosovo's majority ethnic Albanians declared independence from
Serbia.

source: BBC