Yugoslavs

Yugoslavs (Serbo-Croatian, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian: Jugoslaveni/Jugosloveni/Jugoslovani, Cyrillic script: Југословени) is a national designation used by South Slavs across successor countries of former Yugoslavia and by diaspora. In socialist Yugoslavia, 1943–1991, official designation for those who wanted to declare themselves that way was with quotation marks, "Yugoslavs" (introduced in census 1971). Quotation marks were... more
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