Yugoslavia

Well today I thought I would talk a little bit about Yugoslavia, seem a little random to you? Well not to me since I am traveling here at the moment. Its quite interesting because there are a lot of new countries, like Croatia (where I am now) wasn't official until 1991, this is not something I was suspecting. I usually consider Canada really new and didn't really think there was a newer one. Of course there have been Croatians from the 19th century, so in that view point its not a new country. Also it has history that is hundreds of years old, where as Canada (even though we've had people around a long time they lived a nomad life style, so they didn't leave much history) does not. The only reason Croatia didn't become a separate country sooner is because the rule they were under wouldn't allow them.


So here is a chart I made about to big powers that controlled now Yugoslavia.

	Ottomans	Hapsburgs
When?	1299-1922	Countries and provinces that were ruled by the junior Austrian branch of the House of Habsburg between 1521 and 1780 and then by the successor branch of Habsburg-Lorraine until 1918.
Who were the rulers?	First monarch Osman I (c. 1299–1323/4) Last monarch Mehmed VI (1918–1922) There were 36 sultans.	The Hasburg Family
Who were the citizens?	The political and geographical entity governed by the Muslim Ottoman Turks. Their empire was centered in present-day Turkey, and extended its influence into south eastern Europe as well as the Middle East.	Christians.
What religions?	They were mainly Islamic, but there were also Christians and Jews.	Christian, kinda the same answer for both questions.
What languages?	Turkish	The recognition of the Hungarian nation was an important step for the Habsburg empire, and yet it belies the much more complex diversity of the Imperial territory. A 1910 census found that 23% of the empire’s citizens spoke German as a mother-tongue, 20% Hungarian, 13% Czech, 10% Polish, 8% Ruthenian (Ukrainian), 6% Romanian, 5% Croat, 4% Slovak, 4% Serbian, 2% Slovene, 2% Italian, and 5% another of the languages which the survey asked about, including Bulgarian, Bunjevac (a Štokavian dialect of Croatian), and Romani[1][2] (N.B. the percentages do not add up to 100% due to rounding). This sample of languages contains representatives from many different language groups: Germanic (German), Uralic (Hungarian), Slavic (Bulgarian, Bunjevac, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Ruthenian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian), Romance (Romanian, Italian) and Indo-Aryan (Romani).
What former or current countries?	It reached its greatest extent in 1590, when the empire comprised central Hungary, the Balkan Peninsula, Anatolia, Mespotamia, Syria and Palestine, western Arabia, Egypt, and lands in the Caucasus and western Iran. In Europe, Transylvania, Walachia, Moldavia, and the Crimea were tributary principalities, while in North Africa, Tripoli, Tunis, and Algiers were semiautonomous provinces. Between 1603 and 1606, the Ottomans lost the lands in Iran and the Caucasus that had been ceded to them in 1590. In 1669, however, they took control of Crete. By 1450, the Ottoman Empire was a regional power, comprising western and northern Anatolia and much of the Balkan Peninsula. Mehmed II (ruled 1451–1481) expanded and consolidated Ottoman rule in this region. His conquest of Constantinople in 1453 finally extinguished the Byzantine Empire. In the Balkans, he annexed Serbia between 1455 and 1458, Bosnia in 1463, and, in 1466, defeated George Kastriote (Scanderbeg) in central Albania. In 1460 he removed the last two Byzantine rulers of the Peloponnese, and in 1461 conquered Trebizond, the last independent Greek city.	The Hereditary Lands, which covered most of the modern states of Austria and Slovenia, as well as territories in northeastern Italy and (before 1797) southwestern Germany. To these were added in 1779 the Inn Quarter of Bavaria; and in 1803 the Bishoprics of Trent and Brixen. The Napoleonic Wars caused disruptions where many parts of the Hereditary lands were lost, but all these, along with the former Archbishopric of Salzburg, which had previously been temporarily annexed between 1805 and 1809, were recovered at the peace in 1815, with the exception of the Vorlande.

Your still here... damn I thought I scarred you away with the chart, oh well I guess I will have to tell you more. 

Well I will tell you the thing that kinda started the reason for Yugoslavia. Well it all started with royals, and this is a very ironic story if I might add. Well anyways it started with the Hapsburg family which was ruling Yugoslavia at the time.

I should probably also tell you that this is in 1914 and can probably be blamed for starting in motion WW1. So anyways back to the story (secret history lesson), well the funny part (not that I think WW1 is funny) is that is was started by a guy trying to do good. Prince Ferdinand.

You see his dad passed over the throne and this here dude (also know as Prince Ferdinand) was thinking beyond his time. So this here royal dudez dude (moms like "YARROW ITS PRINCE FERDINAND, HE HAS A NAME") was going to make it more like a democracy, because at the time it was still on the king, queen sort of "90% of you don't want this? Well I don't care I'm the KING/QUEEN" but then there was a group (I'm assuming that they were not educated) of teens who decided they would assassinate this guy even though he was helping there country. So then he got assassinated and then his second in command decided to attack the country, even though the assassins said no country hired them, and then through a series of events started by this WW1 happened. All because I man was trying to do good and uneducated people killed him.

Thank you for reading and have a great day.