If you see the world map before the 1990s, you would get a totally different picture. In it, you have Yugoslavia, a large country that included Croatia. Bosnia- Herzegovina, Dalmatia, Serbia, Slovenia and Montenegro. These Balkan states were either ruled by the Ottoman or the Austria-Hungary Empire before its unification.
Though Yugoslavia was torn apart during the Second World War, it pieced itself together in 1945 under a communist government. But its people found it difficult to live with such religious and ethnic diversity. This tension led to war which later split the country into five different nations in the 1990s. They are Croatia, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Dalmatia, Slovenia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In 2003, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was renamed as Serbia and Montenegro. Now, we have five different nations in place of Yugoslavia.
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