a mountainous republic in southeastern Europe bordering on the Adriatic Sea; formed from two of the six republics that made up Yugoslavia until 1992; Serbia and Montenegro were known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003 when they adopted the name of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro
"The mountainous region of Montenegro, once part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, now borders the Adriatic Sea."
a former country of southeastern Europe bordering the Adriatic Sea; formed in 1918 and named Yugoslavia in 1929; controlled by Marshal Tito as a communist state until his death in 1980
"Tito's Yugoslavia included Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro"
A former country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now-independent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, and Slovenia; it disintegrated in the 1990s.
"The breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s led to the formation of seven independent nations on the Balkan Peninsula."
The name Yugoslavia comes from Serbo-Croatian, where it originally meant "the land of the South Slavs." It is formed by combining the words for "south" and "Slavia," the land of the Slavs.