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    Yugoslavia (Former)

    What Slovenians call Gradiska, Italians call what?Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia (St Sava Jr.)

      Gradisca. Gradisca means a 'small town' in Slovenian. All the other cities are in Italy.

    What is the Serbian name for Albanian Korca?Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia (St Sava Jr.)

      Gorica. Medieval Gorica belonged to Serbian landlord Radoslav Hlapan and it means 'small mountain'. Peshkopi is derived from Biskupija, a Bishop's place in the Serbian language. Albanian Berat is in Serbian Belgrad, the capital of Serbia. Bari is in Italy.

    To the south. In Albanian it is Skhodra. What it is called in Serbian?Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia (St Sava Jr.)

      Skadar. Skadar has a long history of conquests. Founded in the 4th century B.C. as Scodra, it was first Illyrian, then Roman, Byzantine, Serbian (1040-1396), Venetian (1369-1479), Ottoman (1497-1913), Serbian (1913) and has been Albanian since then. Debar is in the FYR of Macedonia. Skradin is in Croatia.

    To the east now. What is the Romanian city of Timisoara called in Serbian?Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia (St Sava Jr.)

      Temisvar. Temisvar was the capital of Banat province of Austria-Hungary. It was inhabited by Hungarians, Romanians and Serbs. Today Romanians are the majority of the city's population. Kaposvar is in Hungary, Titograd is today's Podgorica. Beckerek is in Serbia.

    Now to Turkey. What is the city of Istanbul called in Serbian?Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia (St Sava Jr.)

      Carigrad. Carigrad means the "Tsar's city" and the name is connected to the time when it was Greek Constantinople, the Byzantine capital.

    Now to Italy. What is the Italian town of Gorizia called in Slovenian?Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia (St Sava Jr.)

      Gorica. Gorica means 'a litlle mountain' in Slovenian. Postojna is famous cave system, Idria is a mercury mining town, both are in Slovenia. Gradiska is a border town on both sides of Italian-Slovenian border.

    Celovec is what in German?Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia (St Sava Jr.)

      Klagenfurt. Celovec, Beljak and Gradac (Klagenfurt, Villach and Graz) are main Slovene towns alogside Slovenian border. Laibach is German name for Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital.

    Beljak in Slovenian is called what in German?Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia (St Sava Jr.)

      Villach. The region is called Koruska in the Slovenian language.

    Austria first. Gradec in Slovenian language is called what in German ?Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia (St Sava Jr.)

      Graz. In the 10th century AD the region along the southern border of Austria was part of Slovene Great Karantanija and today is inhabited by a Slovene minority (as well as Austrians). This territory was disputed between Yugoslavia and Austria after WWI. Austria acquired it through a referendum.

    And finally to Greece. Solun in Serbian is called what in Greek?Slavic Names of Cities near former Yugoslavia (St Sava Jr.)

      Thessaloniki. The Slovenes received Christianity from St. Cyril and St. Methodus, Greek missionaries from Thessaloniki, who took the language of Slovenes the at the time lived in areas surrounding the city. They devised an alphabet, which was later called Cyrillic alphabet. The first Slovene Bible was written in this script. The city is closely related to Serbian cultural and political history.

Frequently Asked Questions about Yugoslavia (Former)

    • How many war criminals from the wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s have actually been convicted? ( goto )


    • The Bandung Conference in 1955 was hosted by which of the following: Nasser of Egypt, Tito of Yugoslavia, Nehru of India, or Sukarno of Indonesia? ( goto )


    • Which country was recently readmitted to the United Nations after 8 years of absence: Argentina, Bulgaria, Myanmar, or Yugoslavia? ( goto )


    • Out of the following European countries which ones are not land-locked: Slovakia, Croatia, Belarus, Latvia, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova, Belgium, and Austria? ( goto )


    • What was the former name of Bermuda? ( goto )


    • What was the former name of Detroit? ( goto )


    • Bobby Fischer, 61, is wanted in the United States for attending a chess match in Yugoslavia in violation of international sanctions imposed during the Balkan wars. In what year did that chess match take place? ( goto )


    • Robert (James) Fischer, after breaking international sanctions by going to Yugoslavia to play chess against Boris Spassky in 1992, disappeared and lived undetected in Europe and Japan until 2004, when he was found (and arrested) in what city ( goto )


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