Word: herzegovina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Serbia had been expanded into a nation twice its original size as a result of the post-War treaties and plebiscites, which gave Serbia Montenegro, the Austrian provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the semiautonomous region of Croatia and other generous slices of Hungary. The population was thus trebled (to 15,000,000) and all the south Slavs (Yugoslavia means "land of south Slavs") were united. Yugoslavia became, after Rumania, the second largest Balkan State (area: 96,000 square miles...
...regents will have much more than the unruly Croats to contend with. Jugoslavia's population is 11% Mohammedan. Dalmatia is filled with Italians, the scene of much Italian intrigue. Bosnia and Herzegovina have important German minorities. Montenegrans are wondering why they ever gave up their independence...