Yugoslavia

State · 1919–1945 CE · at its largest around 1945 CE

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, founded in 1918 under the Serbian Karadordevic dynasty and renamed Yugoslavia in 1929. It was invaded and partitioned by the Axis powers in 1941.

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.

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