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17 unusual facts about Yugoslavia


1942–43 Serie C

Istrian sides had to leave the league after annexation of the region by Yugoslavia.

1974–75 Derby County F.C. season

However, that was to be as good as it got for The Rams as Yugoslavian Velež Mostar where able to overturn a 3–1 first league deficit to win 5–4 on aggregate and reach the Quarter Finals.

An Numaniyah

It is also the site of a base that was built by the Hussein regime and constructed by Yugoslavian contractors Mostogradnja.

Antártica Chilena

Puerto Williams and Porvenir were established in the late 19th century, mainly by Western European immigrants (esp. from British Isles, Scandinavia and the former Yugoslavia) and navigators in cruise ships and fish boats.

Daniel Shanahan

Professor Shanahan received his PhD from Stanford, and was twice Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Studies, once in Yugoslavia and once in Czechoslovakia.

Koloman Sović

Koloman Sović (22 July 1899 – 23 January 1971) was a Croatian cyclist who competed in two events at the 1924 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia.

Linz Airport

On 8 January 1968, Douglas C-47B YU-ABK of Jugoslovenski Aerotransport was operating an international scheduled cargo flight from Riem Airport, Munich, West Germany to Pleso Airport, Zagreb, Yugoslavia when a fire developed in one of the engines.

Mike Buncic

Michael ("Mike") Buncic is a former NCAA record holder in the discus, born to Yugoslavian parents.

Mustafa Balel

He had his stories, articles and translations published in the journals and in publications published in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, France, Brazil and Iran.

No. 148 Squadron RAF

It dropped men and materiel behind enemy lines in the occupied countries such as Yugoslavia, Poland etc.

Rrahman Morina

In 1988, Morina was installed as leader of the Kosovan wing of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, due to the "anti-bureaucratic revolution", Milošević-orchestrated removal of Azem Vllasi and Kaqusha Jashari from the Kosovan party leadership, as he was one of very few non-Slavic opponents of tendencies of Kosovan separatism.

The Serbian leader once went to the Yugoslavian president Lazar Mojsov, furiously demanding Morina's removal from the Kosovan government (and the rest of it).

Serbian Figure Skating Championships

The Serbian Figure Skating Championships are a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of Serbia (Serbia and Montenegro prior to 2006 and Yugoslavia prior to 2002).

Verano azul

It was also broadcast in Latin America, Portugal, France and some Slavic countries like Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Poland and Czechoslovakia.

VFA-14

Once past the Rock of Gibraltar, VF-14 began flying air superiority and reconnaissance missions in the Adriatic Sea in support of UN policies in the former Yugoslavia.

During this deployment, the Tophatters also participated in several highly successful exercises with Egypt, Morocco and Turkey, while continuing to support operations off the coast of the former Yugoslavia and Operation Provide Comfort in Iraq.

VFA-37

From October 1992 to April 1993, the Bulls deployed to the Mediterranean Sea and were key participants in Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq and Operation Provide Promise in the airspace near the former Yugoslavia.


1973–74 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup

KK Crvena Zvezda defeated Spartak Brno in the final, held in Udine, to become the first Yugoslav team to win the competition, after unsuccessful appearances by KK Crvena Zvezda itself and Jugoplastika Split in the two previous finals.

1980 Thayer Tutt Trophy

It was held from March 8–16, 1980 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.

1990 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

These are the official results of the Men's 4x400 metres event at the 1990 European Championships in Split, Yugoslavia.

Agonum muelleri

In Europe, it is found in Albania, the Azores, Baltic states, Belarus, Benelux, Great Britain including the Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, mainland Portugal, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily (doubtful), mainland Spain, Ukraine, Scandinavia, Yugoslavian states, and Central Europe.

Alma Alexander

In addition to her fantasy novels, Alexander has published a memoir about growing up in Africa and an epistolary novel (written with her husband, then an acquaintance from a Usenet newsgroup) about the NATO war in Yugoslavia.

AP Vojvodina

Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, SFR Yugoslavia (1990-1992), FR Yugoslavia (1992-2003), Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006), independent Serbia (since 2006)

Boris Bandov

Boris Bandov (born November 23, 1953 in Livno, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia) is a retired Yugoslavian-American soccer player who currently coaches youth soccer.

Borislav Stevanović

Born in Titova Mitrovica, Stevanović played club football in Yugoslavia, Spain and Romania for Radnički Niš, Mérida, Rad, Zemun, Universitatea Craiova and BASK.

Braco Dimitrijević

Slobodan “Braco” Dimitrijević was born on 18 June 1948 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia.

Butcher of the Balkans

Slobodan Milošević (1941–2006), the former president of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Chile at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Chile competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia after missing the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Corfu Declaration

In 1916, the Serbian Parliament in exile decided the creation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia at a meeting inside the Municipal Theatre of Corfu, Greece.

Duško Vujošević

As head coach of the junior national team of Yugoslavia (players born in 1970), Vujošević won the 1988 European Under-18 Championship in Titov Vrbas and Srbobran.

Elpida Karamandi

Her mother emigrates to Republic of Macedonia (then part of kingdome of Yugoslavia) in Bitola, to her relatives and there marries for the second time.

Eva Ras

She performed in theatres throughout the former Yugoslavia and Serbia, on television in series written by Siniša Pavić and Dragoslav Lazić, and in films directed by Dušan Makavejev, Aleksandar Petrović, Živko Nikolić, Emir Kusturica, and Ferenc Kardos among others.

Goran Nerić

Goran Neric (born in Goražde, Yugoslavia) is an international (Canada, France, USA) filmmaker and cinematographer.

Gradina, Virovitica-Podravina County

Slavko Šajber, Croatian politician, football official and former president of the Football Association of Yugoslavia

Greece at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Greece competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Ilija Stanić

Ilija Stanić (born 19 October 1945 in Colopeci near Konjic, Yugoslavia) was an agent of UDBA Yugoslav secret police, who is believed to have assassinated Vjekoslav Luburić, a Croatian Ustasha General responsible for war crimes in Jasenovac concentration camp during World War II.

Ivan Aničin

Ivan Aničin, (born 25 March 1944 in Bor, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is Yugoslav and Serbian nuclear physicist, particle physicist, astrophysicist, and cosmologist, university Full Professor and Distinguished (teaching/research) Professor of scientific institutes in Belgrade (Serbia), Bristol (United Kingdom), Grenoble (France), and Munich (Germany).

Ivan Katalinić

Debut came on 30 January 1977 when Yugoslavia beat Colombia 1–0 at Estadio El Campín in Bogotá and his last game was in Rome on 18 May 1978 versus Italy at stadio Olimpico in a

Ivković

Vladimir Ivković (born 1929), Croat water polo player who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics

Milutin Ivković (1906–1943), Serbian football defender, played for Yugoslavia at 1928 Summer Olympics

Ivo Perović

Ivo Perović (1882 − 1958) was Regent of Yugoslavia for the underage Peter II from 1934 to 1941.

Joseph Kruk

Kruk was a member of the executive between June 1928 and October 1930, sharing the seat with the Yugoslav socialist leader Živko Topalović (like Drobner had done as well).

Jouko Vesterlund

Jouko Valdemar Vesterlund (born May 1, 1959 in Rovaniemi) is a former speed skater from Finland, who represented his native country at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

László Rátgéber

László Rátgéber (born 11 October 1969 in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia (today in Serbia)) is the Hungarian head coach of the men's Hungary national basketball team.

Lotika Zellermeier

Lotika Zellermeier (Cyrillic: Лотика Цилермајер, Serbian Latin: Lotika Cilermajer) (1860, Kraków, Poland – 1938, Višegrad, Yugoslavia) was the inspiration for the main character from the 1961 Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andrić’s novel The Bridge on the Drina.

Marvin Johnson

Johnson lost to Matthew Saad Muhammad and Lottie Mwale in the build-up but won a world title—the WBC light heavyweight version—from fellow southpaw Mate Parlov of Yugoslavia with a 10th-round KO in Italy in December 1978, then lost that same title the following April, in front of his hometown Indianapolis fans, in a rematch to Muhammad in what was perhaps 1979's Fight of the Year for many observers.

Milivoj Lajovic

Born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in what was then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, he emigrated to Australia after the establishment of the Titoist regime in Yugoslavia in 1945.

Montenegrin Orthodox Church

In that vein they claim that in pre-Yugoslavia times, the independence of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church has been confirmed as late as 1905, by one of the best-known and well-traveled Balkan experts from the early 20th century, Mary Edith Durham.

National anthem of Yugoslavia

Hey, Slavs, in use in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1943-1991) and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992-2003)

Netherlands at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Athletes from the Netherlands competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Neue Slowenische Kunst

Neue Slowenische Kunst (a German phrase meaning "New Slovenian Art"), a.k.a. NSK, is a controversial political art collective that announced itself in Slovenia in 1984, when Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia.

Nino Bule

Nino Bule (born 19 March 1976 in Čapljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a retired Croatian footballer who played as a striker.

Partisan cemetery in Livno

Partisans' Memorial Cemetery in Livno was built in 1972 to honor the Yugoslav Partisans of Livno who were killed in the National Liberation Front.

Poland at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Poland competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Porges

Nenad Porges (born 1946, Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, (now Croatia)), Croatian politician, businessman, entrepreneur and former Minister of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship

Radivoje

Radivoje Janković (1889–1949), general of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Reformists of Vojvodina

It was founded in October 13, 1990 as the Alliance of Reformist Forces of Yugoslavia for Vojvodina (Savez reformskih snaga Jugoslavije za Vojvodinu) within the unified Yugoslav political movement from that time, whose founder was federal Yugoslav prime minister, Ante Marković.

Ritam Nereda

Before the album release, the German authorities took over the album recordings, claiming that the label was breaking the economic sanctions imposed to Yugoslavia by the United Nations, but, after a compromise, made with the help of UNICEF, the album release was allowed.

Rudi Glöckner

He attracted considerable criticism for his part in the games between ADO Den Haag and West Ham United in the 1976 European Cup Winners Cup and Wales and Yugoslavia at Ninian Park, Cardiff in which the Welsh were eliminated in the quarter-final; Glockner had to be escorted from the field of play.

San Marino at the 1984 Winter Olympics

San Marino competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Šeki snima, pazi se

Considering football sensation Dragoslav Šekularac (nicknamed Šeki, hence the film's title) was probably the first sports superstar in Yugoslavia whose fame transcended sporting bounds, the popularity he enjoyed during his playing heyday was the main reason that Šeki snima, pazi se came about.

Stadion Kranjčevićeva

In 1947 Kranjčevićeva hosted their single international game in the SFR Yugoslavia period, a 2–1 Balkan Cup win against Bulgaria, with both Yugoslavia's goals scored by Prvoslav Mihajlović.

Sulejman Medenčević

Sulejman "Suki" Medenčević (born 29 October 1963, Derventa, Yugoslavia, presently in Bosnia and Herzegovina) is an internationally recognized cinematographer and producer, winner of Best Cinematography Award at 2005 Valencia Festival of Mediterranean Cinema.

Werner Jäger

Werner Jäger (born September 3, 1959) is a former ice speed skater from Austria, who represented his native country at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia

Women's Antifascist Front of Macedonia

It was formed by volunteers in 1942, along with other Women's Antifascist Fronts in Yugoslavia and was one of only four to also become an organised resistance movement.