Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

State · 1946–1991 CE · at its largest around 1946 CE

A federation of six socialist republics led by Josip Broz Tito, who broke with Stalin in 1948 and helped found the Non-Aligned Movement. It disintegrated amid wars after 1991.

On its lands while it lasted

Josip Broz Tito (1892 CE – 1980 CE): Leader of the Yugoslav Partisans in World War II and ruler of socialist Yugoslavia from 1945 until his death, a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Yugoslav Wars (1991–2001 CE): A series of ethnic conflicts and wars of independence during the breakup of Yugoslavia, in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and North Macedonia, that killed about 130,000 people.