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( Kingdom of Yugoslavia)
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croat and Slovene Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Cyrillic script ????????? ???????????) was a kingdom stretching from the Western Balkans to Central Europe which existed during the often-tumultous interwar era of 1918-1941. It was formed in 1918 by Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, while the regions of Kosovo, Vojvodina and Macedonia were parts of Serbia. For its first eleven years of existence it was officially called Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Serbo-Croatian Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca; Cyrillic ????????? ????, ?????? ? ?????????; Slovene Kraljevina Srbov, Hrvatov in Slovencev), but the term Yugoslavia was its colloquial name from the very beginning. On April 17, 1941, Yugoslavia fell prey to Nazi occupation and was reorganised into four provinces under foreign policy; the country was re-established as Democratic Federal Yugoslavia in 1945, in addition with the seizing of territory from Italy. In 1916 the Serbian Parliament in exile decided the creation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia at a meeting inside the Municipal Theatre of Corfu.[2] The kingdom was formed on 1 December 1918 under the name "Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes" (Serbian ????????? ????, ?????? ? ????????? / Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca, Croatian Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca, Slovene Kraljevina Srbov, Hrvatov in Slovencev) or Kingdom of SHS (????????? ??? / Kraljevina SHS) for short. On 1 December 1918 the new kingdom was proclaimed by Alexander Karadordevic, Prince-Regent for his father, Peter I of Serbia. The new Kingdom was made up of the formerly independent kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro (which had unified in the previous month), as well as a substantial amount of territory that was formerly part of Austria-Hungary, the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. The lands previously in Austria-Hungary that formed the new state included Croatia, Slavonia and Vojvodina from the Hungarian part of the Empire, Carniola, part of Styria and most of Dalmatia from the Austrian part, and the crown province of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The creation of the state was supported by Pan-Slav nationalists and Serbian nationalists. For the Pan-Slavic movement, all of the South Slav or "Yugoslav" people had united into a single state and hoped that the peoples would unite as Slavs and abandon past differences. For Serbian nationalists, for the first time, the long-desired goal of uniting all the Serb people from across the Balkans into one state was achieved.
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The Kingdom of Heaven by Steven Sadleir
After years of studying and writing about world religions and spiritual paths a common message appears in each of the world’s major teachings, whether it be an eastern or western religion, spiritual group or master, and that is that one day we humans...
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