Yugoslavs

Yugoslav was an ethnic designation used by some people in former Yugoslavia, which continues to be used in some of its successor countries. The designation was used by people who did not have a strong ethnic identity or did not wish to express it, but who still had patriotic feelings for the country and did not want their ethnicity to be recorded as undeclared.

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After the break up of Yugoslavia, most Yugoslavs switched back to traditional nationalities such as Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, Slovenes, Macedonians, Montenegrins etc, but the designation continues to be used by some. In the 2002 census, 49,881 inhabitants of Vojvodina declared themselves to be Yugoslav (at a time when Vojvodina was part of the country still called FR Yugoslavia).

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Serbs: Serbs (in the Serbian language ????, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina....

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