Yugoslavia (Former) History Trivia

1. After which war was Yugoslavia originally formed?

From Quiz Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia

Answer: World War I

At the time Yugoslavia was formed, it was commonly called a "Versailles State". This was because of its formation around the time of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in France.

From Quiz Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia

Answer: Graz

In the 10th century AD the region along the southern border of Austria was part of Slovene Great Karantanija and today is inhabited by a Slovene minority (as well as Austrians). This territory was disputed between Yugoslavia and Austria after WWI. Austria acquired it through a referendum.

From Quiz Yugoslavia - Dinosaur or Phoenix?

Answer: Land of South Slavs

The southern branch of Slavic peoples entered and settled in the Balkans in the 5th and 6th centuries A.D., during the Great Migrations of the early medieval period.

From Quiz Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia

Answer: King Alexander I

Before being called Yugoslavia, the nation had a few names including Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. Alexander I was the first king of Yugoslavia, under the name Yugoslavia. He became King of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in 1921, inheriting the throne from his father upon his death.

From Quiz Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia

Answer: Villach

The region is called Koruska in the Slovenian language.

From Quiz Yugoslavia - Dinosaur or Phoenix?

Answer: 1929

The united country of South Slavs was first created in 1918, at the end of World War I under the name of the 'Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes'. It was renamed 'Yugoslavia' in 1929, in a move to create a single Yugoslav nation under a unitary form of government. This was an attempt to counterbalance growing separatism at the time.

From Quiz Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia

Answer: Klagenfurt

Celovec, Beljak and Gradac (Klagenfurt, Villach and Graz) are main Slovene towns alogside Slovenian border. Laibach is German name for Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital.

From Quiz Yugoslavia - Dinosaur or Phoenix?

Answer: Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire

The collapse of four great empires in 1918 - Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman, German and Russian empires after World War I, enabled the creation of many new states at the time, Yugoslavia being one. Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Vojvodina were under Austria-Hungary, while independent states of Montenegro and Serbia (which included Macedonia and Kosovo) were under Turkish rule prior to 1878. (Serbia had also succeeded in extending its territory in 1912.)

From Quiz Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia

Answer: Croatia

Croatian leader Vladko Macek and his political party created the Banovina of Croatia in 1939. Croatia was to be become a federal state, but World War II stopped those plans.

From Quiz Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia

Answer: Gorica

Gorica means 'a little mountain' in Slovenian. Postojna is famous cave system, Idria is a mercury mining town, both are in Slovenia. Gradiska is a border town on both sides of Italian-Slovenian border.

From Quiz Yugoslavia - Dinosaur or Phoenix?

Answer: Corfu

Two groups met in Corfu, Greece (Serbia was still occupied), and signed the Corfu Declaration, which called for a single democratic South Slav state to be created and governed by a constitutional monarchy. At the same time, Croatian, Slovene and Serbian deputies to the parliaments in Vienna and Budapest of Austria-Hungary, began preparing the ground for independence through their National Council. On November 26, 1918 the National Assembly of Montenegro in Podgorica declared union with Serbia. In October, Sabor in Zagreb had declared the end of union with Hungary, and on December 1, 1918, a delegation from the National Council invited the prince regent Alexander of Serbia to proclaim the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.

From Quiz Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia

Answer: April 6, 1941

At 5:12 A.M. on April 6, 1941, Adolf Hitler's forces attacked Yugoslavia. The German Air Force worked to bomb major Yugoslavian cities, such as Belgrade. Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria also attacked.

From Quiz Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia

Answer: Gradisca

Gradisca means a 'small town' in Slovenian. All the other cities are in Italy.

From Quiz Yugoslavia - Dinosaur or Phoenix?

Answer: Unitary constitutional monarchy

The monarchy was inherited from Kingdom of Serbia, while the unitary model of government was modeled on France. It was considered at the time that regional differences were so great that a centralized form of government was the best means to override them.

From Quiz Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia

Answer: Belgrade

An armistice is an agreement where the warring parties in a war agree to temporarily stop fighting, however it doesn't mean that the war is over. As part of the agreement of the armistice, more than 300,000 Yugoslav officers and soldiers were taken as prisoners and the Axis Powers split up Yugoslavia and controlled it. Croatia was established as a Nazi satellite state, German troops occupied Bosnia, in addition to part of Slovenia and Serbia, and the rest of Yugoslavia was controlled by Hungary, Italy, and Bulgaria.

From Quiz Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia

Answer: Temisvar

Temisvar was the capital of Banat province of Austria-Hungary. It was inhabited by Hungarians, Romanians and Serbs. Today Romanians are the majority of the city's population. Kaposvar is in Hungary, Titograd is today's Podgorica. Beckerek is in Serbia.

From Quiz Yugoslavia - Dinosaur or Phoenix?

Answer: 1945

After WWII, it was considered that one of the main reasons for inner tensions of the then vanished Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and civil war during WWII, was the question of centralized vs. federal division of power. New federative government was instigated to try to overcome these problems. In 1974 a new constitution was adopted introducing some confederal elements, thus accelerating the decomposition of the country in 90's.

From Quiz Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia

Answer: Josip Broz Tito

The Partisans, led by Tito, waged a large guerilla campaign, that developed into a large resistance. Despite attempts by the Chetniks to stop them, the guerilla movement had substantial successes.

From Quiz Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia

Answer: Skadar

Skadar has a long history of conquests. Founded in the 4th century B.C. as Scodra, it was first Illyrian, then Roman, Byzantine, Serbian (1040-1396), Venetian (1369-1479), Ottoman (1497-1913), Serbian (1913) and has been Albanian since then. Debar is in the FYR of Macedonia. Skradin is in Croatia.

From Quiz Yugoslavia - Dinosaur or Phoenix?

Answer: three

Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929-1941), Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (1943-1963), Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1963-1992), and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (consisting of only two republics, Serbia and Montenegro) from 1992 onwards. The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changed its name to Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929.

From Quiz Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia

Answer: Gorica

Medieval Gorica belonged to Serbian landlord Radoslav Hlapan and it means 'small mountain'. Peshkopi is derived from Biskupija, a Bishop's place in the Serbian language. Albanian Berat is in Serbian Belgrad, the capital of Serbia. Bari is in Italy.

From Quiz Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia

Answer: Carigrad

Carigrad means the "Tsar's city" and the name is connected to the time when it was Greek Constantinople, the Byzantine capital.

From Quiz Yugoslavia - Dinosaur or Phoenix?

Answer: 3

Serbo-Croat (in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro), Slovenian (in Slovenia) and Macedonian (in Macedonia). Also, other languages in local communities, like Slovak, Romanian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Hungarian etc., where they represented local majority of population.

From Quiz Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia

Answer: Josip Broz Tito

Josip Broz Tito was born in Kumrovec, Croatia. His mother was a Slovene and his father was a Croat. He died on May 4, 1980 in Ljubjlana, Slovenia.

From Quiz Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia

Answer: Thessaloniki

The Slovenes received Christianity from St. Cyril and St. Methodus, Greek missionaries from Thessaloniki, who took the language of Slovenes the at the time lived in areas surrounding the city. They devised an alphabet, which was later called Cyrillic alphabet. The first Slovene Bible was written in this script. The city is closely related to Serbian cultural and political history.

From Quiz Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia

Answer: Belgrade

The SFR of Yugoslavia was divided into six republics and provinces, which were Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. The nation was led by Tito.

From Quiz Yugoslavia - Dinosaur or Phoenix?

Answer: 1968

The phrase "Muslim in the ethnic sense" was used first time in the 1961 census, and in 1968 the Bosnian Central Committee decreed that "the Muslims are a distinct nation." The change of official policy in the 1960s that led to the acceptance of "Muslim" as a term denoting a national identity, was a consequence of orientating non-aligned Yugoslav politics more actively towards Islamic nations like Egypt and Indonesia. However, this new use of the term Muslim was applied only to the Serbo-Croatian speaking Muslims in Bosnia, not to Macedonian or Albanian Muslims for example.

From Quiz Yugoslavia - Dinosaur or Phoenix?

Answer: Macedonian and Montenegran

Jajce meeting of AVNOJ (Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia) made a decision to renew then partitioned Yugoslavia after the war, and to create a federal state, contrary to formerly centralized Yugoslavia. The Macedonian and Montenegran nations were formed out of Serbs, and it was decided to give them a republic each, Macedonia and Montenegro. The goal was to decrease in size Serb entity in new Yugoslavia in order to make a more balanced overall federation. Also, it was decided to create an autonomous region of Kosovo and Metohija in southern Serbia, where substantial Serbian Albanian minority lived, and Vojvodina in northern Serbia, where substantial Serbian Hungarian minority lived.

From Quiz Yugoslavia - Dinosaur or Phoenix?

Answer: two

Vojvodina in the north, and Kosovo in the south. Vojvodina was formerly a Serbian region in Austria- Hungary. It is constituted as autonomous province because of the fact that around 1/3 of its population is non-Serb (mostly Hungarian). Kosovo was retaken by Serbia from Turkey in First Balkan War (1912), and made an autonomous province for the big local percentage of Serbian Albanians (around 4/5 according to the 1981 census). The Republic of Kosovo declared its independence on 17th February 2008, but it is not recognised by all members of the United Nations. It did not apply for U.N. membership.

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