YUGOSLAVIA

YUGOSLAVIA. This modern nation-state, now dissolved, was formed in 1919 as the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes under the Serbian crown. It lasted through the deposition of the Karageorgevic dynasty and the installation of Communist rule by Marshal Tito (Josip Broz) following World War II. But it began to break up into its constituent parts (Serb, Croat, Slovene, Muslim Slav, Slavic Macedonian, and Albanian) in 1990 and 1991. The Orthodox Church of Serbia (q.v.) ministers to Orthodox believers throughout the territories of the former federation, although the civil war being waged at the time of writing indicates that a widespread redistribution of the populations is both certain and already under way.