Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia was the state of the South Slavs in the Balkans from 1918 to 1992 (the rump Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003, Serbia and Montenegro until 2006). It began as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, from 1929 the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and after the Second World War became the socialist federation of Josip Broz Tito.

History

Kings of the Karađorđević dynasty: Peter I (1918–1921), Alexander I (1921–1934, assassinated in Marseille) and Peter II (1934–1945). After the occupation of 1941 and the partisan war a federal republic was proclaimed in 1945; Tito ruled until 1980, and after 1991 the federation broke up in civil war.

Currency and coins

The currency was the dinar (1 dinar = 100 para). Royal coins: nickel-bronze 50 para, 1 and 2 dinara (1925), silver 10, 20 and 50 dinara (1931–1938, 50 dinara = 15 g, .750), the gold ducat of 1931–1934 (3.49 g, .986) with Alexander I, struck in Paris, Brussels, London and Belgrade. Socialist Yugoslavia went through reforms in 1965, 1990 and 1992–1994 with hyperinflation; coins in aluminium, copper-nickel and brass.

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