History of Yugoslavia

Probably the first "official" mention of the term Yugoslav (as opposed to simply South Slav) was the forming of the group of advocates of a joint country of South Slavs, by politicians from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which were then both in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. On 22 November 1914, Ante Trumbi , Frano Supilo, Ivan Me trovi , Hinko Hinkovi and Franko Poto njak from Croatia and Nikola Stojanovi and Du an Vasiljevi from Bosnia and Herzegovina first met with Pavle Popovi , a representative of Nikola Pa i 's Serbian government, on neutral ground in Florence, Italy, in an effort to coordinate their efforts towards building an independent state of western South Slavs. Lujo Vojnovi was also present as an observer from the Kingdom of Montenegro. The new "Yugoslav" cause (from Jugoslav, meaning "Southern Slav") was receiving an increasing amount of support: in the western states, the people were generally tired of Austria-Hungary and a union with the eastern states was probably seen as the best way to come out of the anomie caused by the Great War.

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Probably the first "official" mention of the term Yugoslav (as opposed to simply South Slav) was the forming of the group of advocates of a joint country of South Slavs, by politicians from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which were then both in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. On 22 November 1914, Ante Trumbic, Frano Supilo, Ivan MeStrovic, Hinko Hinkovic and Franko Potocnjak from Croatia and Nikola Stojanovic and DuSan Vasiljevic from Bosnia and Herzegovina first met with Pavle Popovic, a representative of Nikola PaSic's Serbian government, on neutral ground in Florence, Italy, in an effort to coordinate their efforts towards building an independent state of western South Slavs. Lujo Vojnovic was also present as an observer from the Kingdom of Montenegro. The new "Yugoslav" cause (from Jugoslav, meaning "Southern Slav") was receiving an increasing amount of support: in the western states, the people were generally tired of Austria-Hungary and a union with the eastern states was probably seen as the best way to come out of the anomie caused by the Great War.