Serbia or Yugoslavia?

Question

what happened to Yugolslavia exactly? and what happened to the nation of Serbia? did Serbia existed before WWI?

Answer 1

Note that name Serbia existed long before Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia was country of south Slavs (name Yugoslavia means south-Slavic), with all republics of south Slavs together (Serbs, Croats, etc.), so Serbia was one republic in that country: Socialist Federate Republic of Yugoslavia, country made after WWW II, that don't exist anymore and now all of it's countries are independent republics. Before WW II, there was Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians. Before that, check here, it's too much to write:
http://www.serbia-info.com/enc/history.html

Answer 2

Yugoslavia was the name adopted by the kingdom of the Serbian and Croatians born after the first world war. The name means Slavs of the south. \all the Yugoslavians nations have many similarities in culture and language, their main different is in their history. Meanwhile the Croats and Slovenes belonged for centuries to the Austrian empire, the Serbs and Macedonians and Bosnians were part of the ottoman empire.
Croats and Slovenes are mainly catholic, Serbs and Macedonians are mainly orthodox, Bosnians have a little bit of everything, but a majority of Muslims.

Serbia has a long history that can be traced to the middle ages when Slavs settle in that territory of the Balkan peninsula, it had a powerful kingdom that only collapsed when the ottomans made their apparition in Europe. For several centuries the Serbs survived, but heavily influenced by the traditions of their conquerors.

It was not until the nineteen century when Serbia got is autonomy again.

As other Balkan nations, they were very nationalistic and bellicose, they battled and expanded, they lost and got smaller.

It was at the end of the WWI that all the countries of former Yugoslavia got together under the tutelage of te king of the Serbs. The kingdom as said before was known AS the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. I dont know well which reason pushed the change of the name to Yugoslavia in the end of the 20s.

Then WWII came, Yugoslavia disintegrated and joined again, Tito and the communist came, the 80s arrived nobody liked each other and everybody fought for their independence. The Serbs hold to Yugoslavia for long until the middle of the 90s when only |Serbia and Montenegro were left as part of the Federation, and decided to drop the name. Last year Montenegro declared their independence, and with that the end on Yugoslavia.

The only place where Yugoslavia is still remembered is in official name of Macedonia, FY ROM, former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia.

My question to everybody is as follows, when in history Servia with v, became Serbia with b, in my old history books Serbia is spelled with v.

Answer 3

Yes, Serbia most definitely existed before WW1, but as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After WW1, because the immediate cause of that war was felt to be the shooting of Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand by the Serbian nationalist Gabriel Princep, and also because the Balkans were a by-word for instability, the Great Powers formed the artificial country of Yugoslavia, to include Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzogovinia and Macedonia.