Nationalism and Yugoslavia

Created after World War I, ''Yugoslavia'' was a combination of ethnically, religiously, and linguistically diverse but connected South Slav peoples - Slovenes, Croats and Serbs but also Bosnian Muslims, Macedonians, and Montenegrins - in addition to non-Slav minorities. The Great Powers and the country''s intellectual and political elites believed that a coherent identity could be formed in which ...