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  Croatia Maps - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online
Croatia - Economy From Former Yugoslavia: A Map Folio 1992 (145K)
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www.lib.utexas.edu /maps/croatia.html   (278 words)

  
  Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Democratic Federative Yugoslavia was reconstituted at the AVNOJ or the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia conference in Jajce (November 29 - December 4, 1943) while negotiations with the royal government in exile continued.
Like the Kingdom of Yugoslavia that preceded it, the SFRY bordered Italy and Austria to the northwest, Hungary and Romania to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece and Albania to the south, and the Adriatic Sea to the west.
Yugoslavia, unlike other Eastern and Central European communist countries, chose a course independent of the Soviet Union (see Informbiro), and was not a member of the Warsaw pact nor NATO, but rather than that initiated a Non-Aligned Movement in 1956.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia   (1404 words)

  
 Serbia and Montenegro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Upon the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the remaining confederation of Serbia and Montenegro was reconstituted in 1992 as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY).
However, the United Nations, and many individual states (especially the United States) had refused to recognise it as the successor of the former Yugoslavia, although they accepted it as constituting a state.
Mismanagement of the economy, an extended period of economic sanctions, and the damage to Yugoslavia's infrastructure and industry caused by the Kosovo War have left the economy only half the size it was in 1990.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia   (1323 words)

  
 WJLA - Former Yugoslavia's Army Chief Indicted   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Former Serbian army chief Gen. Momcilo Perisic, a one-time ally of ex-president Slobodan Milosevic, said late Wednesday that he has been indicted by the U.N. war crimes court and will surrender next week.
The sudden announcement was made through the Serbia's press office, amid intense Western pressure that the Balkan country, formerly known as Yugoslavia, to extradite all suspects sought by the international court on charges related to the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s.
Perisic was involved in combat in the former Yugoslav republic of Croatia when that it seceded from the now defunct federation in 1991, triggering a rebellion by local ethnic Serbs.
www.wjla.com /headlines/0305/210882.html   (427 words)

  
 Socialist Yugoslavia (1945-1991)
Most of them were based on former national flags, removing the national emblem in the middle and putting the star instead of it.
According to Marijan Grakalić's Hrvatski grb (NZMH, Zagreb, 1990), referring to Enciklopedija Jugoslavije (1980), it is supposed that Andrejević-Kun and A. Augustinčić are the authors of the coat of arms of Yugoslavia and that Kun might be the author of the coat of arms of the republics.
Mainly due to the question of the Bosnian Muslims not being represented in the five torches representing the five Yugoslav nations, the number of the torches was increased to six, with a new meaning, which was the number of the constituent republics.
flagspot.net /flags/yu_fy.html   (681 words)

  
 Dismantling Former Yugoslavia, Recolonising Bosnia. Michel Chossudovsky
While local leaders and Western interests share the spoils of the former Yugoslav economy, the fragmentation of the national territory and the entrenching of socio-ethnic divisions in the structure of partition serve as a bulwark blocking a united resistance of Yugoslavs of all ethnic origins against the recolonization of their homeland.
Yugoslavia is a "mirror" of similar economic restructuring programmes applied not only in the developing World but also in recent years in the US, Canada and Western Europe...
Pushed to the extreme, the reforms in Yugoslavia are the cruel reflection of a destructive "economic model" imposed under the neoliberal agenda on national societies throughout the World...
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /Kosovo/Kosovo-controversies4.html   (4327 words)

  
 Jews of the Former Yugoslavia After the Holocaust
The former Yugoslavia is made up of 5 separate countries: Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, and Croatia.
There is evidence of a Jewish population in the area of the former Yugoslavia that dates back to the Roman Period.
With the immigration to Israel, the population of Jews in Yugoslavia continued to decrease.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Yugoslavia2.html   (687 words)

  
 Pictures of Greece
Travel Europe Pictures Greece Two major landform regions are captured in this photograph—the northwest-southeast-trending Pindos (Pindhos) Pictures Greece Mountains in central Greece north of the Gulf of Corinth and the Peloponnesus (Peloponnisos) Peninsula south of the Gulf of Corinth (center of the photograph).
Two major landform regions are captured in this photograph—the northwest-southeast-trending Pindos (Pindhos) Mountains in central Greece north of the Gulf of Corinth (Korinthiakós) and the Peloponnesus (Peloponnisos) Peninsula south of the Gulf of Corinth (center of the photograph).
The Pindos Mountains, a massive continuation of the Dinaric Alps of Albania and the former Yugoslavia, make the land inhospitable and travel difficult.
www.pictures-europe.com /pictures-greece.htm   (2309 words)

  
 Former Yugoslavia Periodical Resources
Bibliographies of Bibliographies for All Countries/Republics of Former Yugoslavia
For journal articles published in various regions of Former Yugoslavia from the end of the 18th century to 1945, this very ambitious retrospective series is an excellent source.
After the disintegration of Yugoslavia the scope of the title altered to reflect the new shape of the country, thus Croatian, Slovene, and Macedonian periodicals were no longer included.
www.library.uiuc.edu /spx/class/Periodicals/Yugoslavia/yugper.htm   (1432 words)

  
 The Albanians in Yugoslavia in light of historical documents
Yugoslavia was prevented from carrying out the plan because of the outbreak of World War II.
Under the SFRY (Socialist Fefederal Republic Yugoslavia) government, the Kosovars have been treated as harshly as they were under the government of the Kingdoms of Serbia and Yugoslavia, despite the fact that the principle of nationality is supposed to constitute its basis.
Very little has been written about the Kosovars, their fate may be described by what a statesman is supposed to have said with respect to oppressed population, "The death of a person is a tragedy; deaths of thousands of people are merely a matter of statistics".
www.alb-net.com /juka2.htm   (18187 words)

  
 Former Yugoslavia Bibliographies of Bibliographies
Please note that all of the online catalogs of the countries of Former Yugoslavia are annotated on the national bibliography pages for each country.
Below are the printed ones for Former Yugoslavia that are held in the University of Illinois collection.
In general this is an area of bibliography that is not well-developed in the Former Yugoslav countries so there are few such works to be found.
www.library.uiuc.edu /spx/class/Bibliographies/Yugoslavia/yugbob.htm   (996 words)

  
 International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia - International Justice - Global Policy Forum
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic still refuses to cooperate with the court that he perceives as "an institution created to convict him" and his actions may set a precedent for future trials of leaders, such as Saddam Hussein, at the International Criminal Court.
Whether the two former Serb leaders remain at large due to unstated NATO policy, Muslim and Croatian politicians’ fear of war secrets revelations or Serb authorities’ unwillingness to take political risks, the author affirms that the fugitives are “a source of embarrassment” to NATO and former Yugoslavia Tribunal officials.
Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski and his former bodyguard were charged with the murders of Albanians during the 2001 conflict.
www.globalpolicy.org /intljustice/yugoindx.htm   (5503 words)

  
 The Yugoslav idea, the former Yugoslavia and its Social and Geographical Features
non-alignment."[17] This view of the geostrategic position of the former Yugoslavia is outlived since an ideological, inter-ethnic, and religious war is waged in it, and not in the corridors, while the policy of non-alignment came to its anticipated end.
The non-aligned policy of Yugoslavia was often supported by a large number of the states in the world, because it geostrategic and political position in the troubled Balkans was very important.
One of major contradictions of the former Yugoslav geo area is the dispersion of the Serbian people, which was, together with other factors, in the background of the non-existence of a Serbian state.
www.coursework.info /i/70924.html   (741 words)

  
 COURTTV.COM- TRIALS
In this May 16 ruling, The International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia grants a prosecution request to ask the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina to defer the trial of three highly-placed Bosnian Serb officials to the tribunal.
The prosecutor is investigating the individual responsibility of the three Bosnian leaders for alleged acts of genocide, violations of the customs of war, and crimes against humanity perpetrated during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
In this February 13, 1995 indictment, Dusko Tadic and Goran Borovnica are charged with war crimes stemming from the alleged mistreatment, sexual assault, and murder of prisoners held at the Omarska camp in the former Yugoslavia.
www.courttv.com /casefiles/warcrimes/documents   (882 words)

  
 Radicus Internet - Former Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria
Former Serbian president surrenders to UN court in The Hague
PODGORICA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- A popular politician who wants to move Montenegro toward a full break from Serbia appeared to have won the most votes in presidential elections Sunday, but he conceded that the vote was invalid because of low turnout.
PODGORICA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Voters were expected to back a pro-independence candidate in presidential elections Sunday in a test of Montenegro's resolve to break away from the ailing Yugoslav federation.
www.radicus.net /news/list/world.europe.balkans.asp   (743 words)

  
 The Impact of War on Child Health in the Countries of the Former Yugoslavia -- Executive Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Yugoslavia, a once reasonably affluent country with Western medicine and good standards of child health, was being destroyed in some of the most brutal ways imaginable, and children were suffering greatly.
Invited participants from the countries of the former Yugoslavia included leaders in child health from their respective countries as well as physicians who knew and could speak about conditions of child health.
We are particularly grateful to Thomas McDermott, the special representative from UNICEF to the former Yugoslavia, and Michel Duprat, the UNICEF physician in the former Yugoslavia, who regularly visits all of the regions.
www.nap.edu /execsumm/NX004721.html   (2718 words)

  
 History of Yugoslavia
The Yugoslavia which emerged from World War II was a six republic federation.
Yugoslavia has been gradually disintegrating since the death of Tito.
The government and Serbian people of Yugoslavia are totally opposed to losing any more territory to independence or autonomy movements.
www.religioustolerance.org /yugo_his.htm   (1136 words)

  
 Serbia Info News / Arrest of Spider group sheds light on developments in former Yugoslavia, Matic
The Yugoslav Information Secretary said that during the arrest of the Spider group, a series of documents were found, which he stressed shed new light on the developments in the former Yugoslavia, especially on what underlies the sanctions against and pressure on Yugoslavia.
It was a professional gang of executors, which placed itself at the disposal of the French Intelligence and other similar groupations and contributed with their actions to the war on the territory of the former Yugoslavia be treated as a form of Serbian aggression and expansionism, stressed Matic.
Furthermore, Matic said that this was the first operation performed by the members of "Spider" group on the territory of FR Yugoslavia, which later on planned the assassination of the Yugoslav president.
www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-12/22/16332.html   (1185 words)

  
 Yugoslavia maps from Omnimap.com, world leader in map supply.
This series offers nearly complete coverage of the former Yugoslavia; 389 of 419 sheets are available.
This map shows the locations of the units of the various armies during the 1992-1999 wars in the former Yugoslavia.
An interesting map with Yugoslavia on one side and Serbia on the reverse, with an inset map of Banja Luka.
www.omnimap.com /catalog/int/yugoslav.htm   (287 words)

  
 Pathfinder: War in the Former Yugoslavia: 1991-99   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a starting point for research on the wars that has taken place this decade in the former Yugoslavia, in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and now Kosovo.
The former Yugoslavia was located in the region of Southeastern Europe known as the Balkans.
Produced in December 1990, shortly before the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, this document provides an excellent introduction to the history of the region and its peoples, and the background of the wars that have taken place this decade.
www.ipl.org.ar /ref/QUE/PF/yugowar.html   (1203 words)

  
 Sanctions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The report stated that the FRY was abiding by its decision to close its border with the Bosnian Serbs, except for the shipment of medicine and clothing for humanitarian purposes.
Resolution 1074 (1996) of 1 October 1996, to terminate sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Bosnian Serbs, in accordance with paragraph 4 of Resolution 1022.
Resolution 1203 (1998) of 24 October 1998 demanded that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Kosovo Albanian leadership and other elements of the Kosovo Albanian community comply fully and swiftly with Resolutions 1160 and 1199.
www.un.org /News/ossg/fy.htm   (646 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
We are profoundly disturbed by the deteriorating situation in the former Yugoslavia, which constitutes a serious threat to international peace, security, and stability.
Recent meetings in Edinburgh, Stockholm and Geneva have made clear the international community's impatience with the situation, its determination that the carnage and lawlessness in former Yugoslavia be brought to a halt, and its commitment to a negotiated, peaceful and lasting settlement.
We are contributing individually and as an Alliance to the implementation of UN Security Council resolutions, and we are prepared to respond to further requests for such contributions.
wiretap.area.com /Gopher/Gov/NATO/921217.yugo   (697 words)

  
 Alphabetic Index of Websites of the United Nations System of Organizations
Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) (former IACWGE) - New York, USA (e-mail)
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) - The Hague, The Netherlands (e-mail)
United Nations Communications Group (former JUNIC) - New York, USA (e-mail)
www.unsystem.org /en/frames.alphabetic.index.en.htm   (1323 words)

  
 Reports on War Crimes in the FormerYugoslavia
Former President Tudjman, Gojko Susak, and Mate Boban (all deceased) were cited as co-conspirators.
At a time when the tribunal on war-crimes in the former Yugoslavia was engaged in major prosecutions against Croats, Muslims, and Serbs--a time when most of the activity was in prosecuting Croat war-crimes--the Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle issues a statement accusing the tribunal of foscusing almost exclusively on crimes by Serbs (a blatant falsehood).
Broz, who lived in the former Yugoslavia during the time of the Bosnia war, has identified and preserved many acts of kindness and courage in which individuals risked their lives to help members of another group.
www.haverford.edu /relg/sells/reports.html   (6181 words)

  
 ABC News: Former Yugoslavia's Army Chief Indicted   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This is June 1 2004 file photo of Gen. Momcilo Perisic, the former Yugoslavian former army chief and one-time ally of ex-president Slobodan Milosevic, seen in a military court in Belgrade, charged on suspicion of passing military secrets to a U.S. diplomat in a motel on the outskirts of Belgrade.
The sudden announcement was made through the Serbian government press office, amid intense Western pressure that the Balkan country, formerly known as Yugoslavia, to extradite all suspects living here and sought by the international court on various charges related to the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s.
BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro Mar 2, 2005 — Former Serbian army chief Gen. Momcilo Perisic, a one-time ally of ex-president Slobodan Milosevic, said late Wednesday that he has been indicted by the U.N. war crimes court and will surrender next week.
abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=546075   (478 words)

  
 International Adoption Former Yugoslavia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Department of State shares your humanitarian concern for the children of the former Yugoslavia and applauds your desire to assist them in their time of need.
The laws in the former Yugoslavia gave priority to adoptions by Yugoslavians, and made the adoption of Yugoslavian children by foreigners very difficult.
All of the republics of the former Yugoslavia permit foreigners to adopt children only in exceptional and compelling circumstances.
travel.state.gov /family/adoption/country/country_350.html   (1196 words)

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