Part of former Yugoslavia Crossword Clue

• (noun)
  1. a mountainous republic of south-central Europe; formerly part of the Ottoman Empire and then a part of Yugoslavia; voted for independence in 1992 but the mostly Serbian army of Yugoslavia refused to accept the vote and began ethnic cleansing in order to rid Bosnia of its Croats and Muslims
  2. the northern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina

• YUGOSLAVIA (noun)
  1. a mountainous republic in southeastern Europe bordering on the Adriatic Sea; formed from two of the six republics that made up Yugoslavia until 1992; Serbia and Montenegro were known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003 when they adopted the name of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro
  2. a former country of southeastern Europe bordering the Adriatic Sea; formed in 1918 and named Yugoslavia in 1929; controlled by Marshal Tito as a communist state until his death in 1980
• FORMER (adjective)
  1. belonging to some prior time
  2. belonging to the distant past
• FORMER (noun)
  1. the first of two or the first mentioned of two

• CROATIA
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BASION