This map, created by Abel Gil Lobo for the website El Orden Mundial in 2018, depicts the break-up of Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia was established in 1918 following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia. After the Second World War, it functioned as a socialist republic under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito. Internal tensions were kept in check by a federalist model and a foreign policy of non-alignment, but with Tito’s death in 1980 and the collapse of the Soviet bloc, Yugoslav unity dissolved. From 1991 onwards, the various republics began to declare their independence:

• Slovenia, in June 1991.
• Croatia, in June 1991.
• Macedonia, in September 1991.
• Bosnia and Herzegovina, in March 1992.
• Montenegro, in June 2006.
• Kosovo, in February 2008.
• Serbia It continued to be recognised as the successor state to Yugoslavia by the international community.

The map uses different shades of blue to distinguish between the territories, with lighter colours indicating those that were the first to declare their independence. Macedonia is shown under the name it used until 2019, when the dispute with Greece was settled with the signing of the Prespa Agreement and it adopted its new name: North Macedonia.

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• A map of the break-up of Yugoslavia