It's crazy that Yugoslavia split into so many countries afterwards. Tito was either a brilliant leader or totally screwed up the whole region.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Kosovo.
Either he was keeping a region that was destined to be split up into a thousand little countries together, or his actions fueled tensions that caused a region that could have been unified or mostly unified to become deeply balkanized.
By the way, I never realized until editing this post that Yugoslavia is actually part of the Balkan peninsula, meaning the use of the word balkanized is deeply fitting and in fact the country was formed in response to the Balkan wars where in the first war the Ottomans were expelled and in the second the different Balkan states were warring with each other pre-WWI and then World War I, both of which resulted in a large number of countries that were partially hostile to one another -- World War 1 was in fact caused as a direct result of the Balkan conflict, with a Serbian nationalist killing Franz Ferdinand)
Holy crap there's a lot of important history jammed into what from a map looks like a country changing into other countries!
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Kosovo.
Either he was keeping a region that was destined to be split up into a thousand little countries together, or his actions fueled tensions that caused a region that could have been unified or mostly unified to become deeply balkanized.
By the way, I never realized until editing this post that Yugoslavia is actually part of the Balkan peninsula, meaning the use of the word balkanized is deeply fitting and in fact the country was formed in response to the Balkan wars where in the first war the Ottomans were expelled and in the second the different Balkan states were warring with each other pre-WWI and then World War I, both of which resulted in a large number of countries that were partially hostile to one another -- World War 1 was in fact caused as a direct result of the Balkan conflict, with a Serbian nationalist killing Franz Ferdinand)
Holy crap there's a lot of important history jammed into what from a map looks like a country changing into other countries!
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@sj_zero i have no idea the history, but i imagine there some serious infighting going on. i did read an article that the kosovo-serbia war started with a food fight in the 80s that later spiraled out of control.