SLAVC 90 Lecture 11: Yugoslavia
Document Summary
Cyril and methodius failed in mission to moravia; disciples went south to first bulgarian empire (including current day macedonia) and slavonic flourishing that began in moravia took place in bulgaria. Cyrillic alphabet invented in bulgaria (modeled on greek alphabet), glagolitic cast aside once cyrillic invented idea of pan-south-slav state (yugoslavia) Yugoslavia should look like-- provinces relatively arbitrary instead of divided by ethnic group, which would constitute a federation) Cyril had success in converting pannonian slavs (in hungary); after tenth century became. Slovenian language was transitionary language between west and south slavic languages (before magyar settlement in hungary, south and east europe composed of continuum of. 1991-1995: yugoslav war originally involved yugoslavia vs slovenes bloodier, longer fight between yugoslav army and serbs vs croats later fighting was serbs vs croats vs bosniaks. 1989-- 500th anniversary of battle of kosovo polje conflict in kosovo. 1999-- serbian and albanian conflict in kosovo, eu and nato recognized kosovo as independent country.
