Word: macedonia
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...Yugoslavia, whose name means Land of the South Slavs, the non-Slavic Albanians were at a special disadvantage. The Slovenes had Slovenia, the Croats Croatia, and the Macedonians Macedonia, but the Yugoslav Albanians never had a republic of their own. Instead, they were concentrated in the province of Kosovo in southern Serbia. Worse luck still, that piece of real estate included the site of the famous battlefield where Lazar lost to Murad...
...quote belongs to Socrates, who lived in a 5th century energy crisis. After cutting down their own forests for fuel, the ancient Greeks were forced to import shipfulls of timber from Thrace and Macedonia...
...time of his death in 1980, the country was already unraveling. Political power had decentralized, the relatively prosperous economy was faltering, and old tensions began to rise. The richer republics of the northwest, Slovenia and Croatia, felt their development was hampered by the poorer republics of Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. Serbia was hated by the rest for dominating the government and the army; in turn it saw preserving unity at all costs as a mission, given weight by fears that Serbs in other republics were threatened by emerging nationalist regimes...
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO, that's what. The 12-member European Community and the U.S. have recognized the independence of the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The E.C. recognized Slovenia and Croatia last January, and Washington has now followed suit. And while Macedonia has declared its independence, the E.C. has not yet recognized it out of deference to Greece, which also contains a region it calls Macedonia and fears that an independent state could lay claim to some parts of Greek territory. The White House said the U.S. would coordinate its plans with the E.C. to recognize Macedonia, possibly...
...future status of the ethnically mixed republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina seemed more likely to be settled by bullets than by ballots. But in two days of polling last weekend, 64% of the registered voters in the central Yugoslav republic cast votes on whether to follow Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia into independence. Strong support among the republic's Muslims and Croats made for a virtually unanimous approval. Orthodox Serbs had been instructed to boycott the referendum. Even so, Western diplomats estimated that as many as 15% of Serbs also voted...