State Department and Foreign Affairs Records Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State (RG 84) Yugoslavia Yugoslavia declared itself a neutral in September 1939. By Tim Judah. 1939. The Roman Catholic Croats, who accounted for circa of the Yugoslav population, required the federation while the Orthodox Serbs prefered the centralized state. In the early 1980s the Jewish population of Yugoslavia was estimated at approximately 5,500, the majority of whom resided in Belgrade, Zagreb, and Sarajevo. Crisis Phase (December 1, 1918-March 27, 1925): Prince Alexander Karaorevi of Serbia proclaimed the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Yugoslavia) on December 1, 1918. These countries were after the war united with Serbia and Montenegro in the kingdom of Yugoslavia. The 1940 census records were released by the US National Archives April 2, 2012, and brought online through a partnership with Archives.com. Through 1940, census data on nativity of the population were based on data for the total enumerated population. Yugoslavia. 5 The pickings are partic - ularly thin in the literature of the Yugoslav successor states. A Century of Population Change in the Age and Sex Composition of the Nation. After the defeat of France in spring 1940, Yugoslavias policy of neutrality became uncertain. Hitler forcefully annexed Austria in March 1938. Yugoslavia: 1918 - 2003. Louis Skubis was born about 1897 in Yugoslavia. There are no birth, marriage & death collections unique to Yugoslavia. PMID: 12285073 Abstract "On 31 March, 1991, the sixth population census after World War Two was taken in Yugoslavia. In Yugoslavia, what began as a noble idea ended in war, destruction and poverty. Censuses were also taken in 1866, 1874, 1884, and every five years between 1895-1910, then in 1912/1913. Last updated 2011-02-17. Serbia and Yugoslavia were among the countries that had the greatest losses in the war: 1 700 000 people (10.8% of the population). In 1943, a Democratic Federal Yugoslavia was proclaimed by the Partisan resistance. September 2010. This snapshot of Lucretia Kuglio's life was captured by the 1940 U.S. Census. The idea for the unification of the Southern Slavs emerged in the 19 th century and the strength of its appeal varied over the course of its development. Each country's population was devastated during the Second World War, Lithuania losing over 14 percent of the population, and Latvia and Estonia losing 12.5 percent and 7.3 percent respectively. In fact, the government was unable to hold out for long and ended up adhering to the Tripartite Pact on 25 March 1941. The census of households, apartments and farms took place simultaneously to the population census. In 1940, he was 65 years old and lived in Plaquemines, Louisiana, with his 2 sons. For 1950 to 2000, data on nativity were based on a sample of the total population ranging from about 1 in 4 in 1960 to about 1 in 6 in 1990 and 2000. One of the republics in central Yugoslavia with the largest Muslim population (750,000). In 1944, the king recognized it as the legitimate government, but in November 1945 the monarchy was abolished. The flag was first used by the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1943. In April 1941, Yugoslavia was occupied by German, Hungarian, Italian, and Bulgarian troops. This snapshot of Luke Pausina's life was captured by the 1940 U.S. Census. There are no census & voter lists collections unique to Yugoslavia. How compelling, that in 1940, and prior to World War II, the Germans needed to know the ethnic make-up of Yugoslavia. 6 Even before the Most European Jews resided in eastern Europe, with about 5 1/2 million Jews living in Poland and the Soviet Union. Population distribution by country in 1939. More than 75% of the working population was engaged in (1940/1941), the Kingdom of Yugoslavia had no common border with the Axis Powers only on the section with the Kingdom of Greece. The area of modern Austria's population rose gradually throughout the nineteenth century, until the early 1900s, where it then dropped and 1991: June. September 12, 2013. Non-combat victims included the majority of the country's Jewish population, many of whom perished in concentration and extermination camps (e.g Mussolini's Italy had invaded Albania in April 1939 and launched the rather unsuccessful Italo-Greek War in October 1940. The design of the flag consists of three equal horizontal bands, blue, white and red. The non-Serbs generally favored the Axis powers. population development(_more fully, we present here the broad contours of social and economic development in Yugoslavia and regional differences in economic and other characteristics. The American Jewish Yearbook placed the total Jewish population of Europe at about 9.5 million in 1933. Luke Pausina was born about 1875 in Yugoslavia. In 1940, she was 67 years old and lived in Los Angeles, California, with her son. The Serb population were overwhelmingly pro-Allied in their sentiment, as was Regent Prince Paul. Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1990) Infant mortality rate: 22 deaths/1,000 live births (1990) Life expectancy at birth: 70 years male, 76 years female (1990) In 1940, he was 43 years old and lived in Ely, Minnesota, with his son and 2 daughters. Volume 62, Issue 7. Renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 3 October 1929, it was invaded by the Axis powers on 6 April 1941. Authors R Stevanovic, D Breznik. During the First World War, unification became the main war aim of the government of the Kingdom of Serbia as well as the Yugoslav Committee. During its last census in 1991, Yugoslavia enumerated 23,528,230 people. Serbs had a plurality, followed by Croats, Bosniaks, Albanians, Slovenes and Macedonians. (Note "Deutsches Reich" in the North-West corner of the map.) There is no evidence of the existence of a Jewish community in Bosnia before the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. undeveloped agrarian country. Yugoslavia. Ethnic map of Yugoslavia (1981) September 18, 2017 December 27, 2017 Alex 0 Comments Europe. This category has the following 19 subcategories, out of 19 total. 1940 in Yugoslavia (4 C, 3 F) 1941 in Yugoslavia (8 C, 5 F) 1942 in Yugoslavia (10 C, 1 F) 1943 in Yugoslavia (8 C, 2 F) 1944 in Yugoslavia (7 C, 2 F) 1945 in Yugoslavia (9 C, 5 F) 1946 in Yugoslavia (6 C) Yugoslavia was the scene of genocidal and other crimes of mass murder while under the occupation of the Axis powers during World War II in the period 1941-1945. 1991;32(3):3-14. A Partitioning of Yugoslavia During WWII (19411945) The most barbaric and notorious death camp (the Ninth Circle of Hell) during WWII in Europe was functioning almost four years, located not so far from Zagreb on the River Sava Jasenovac in which around 700.000 people have been brutally murdered among them 500.000 ethnic Serbs. The U.S. population in 1940 was 131,012,722 per the U.S. Census Bureau.The population of the United States in 1940 was about 131 million. With 90% of its population ethnic Slovenians, Slovenia is able to break away with only a brief period of fighting. Nikola Pai of the Peoples Radical Party (PRP) served as acting prime minister beginning on December 1, 1918. The Yugoslav Civil War was a major Southern European conflict that lasted from October 30th, 1939 to June 5th, 1940. There are no dictionaries, encyclopedias & reference collections unique to Yugoslavia. According to the census of 1939, there were 71,000 Jews. The decrease in the number of Jews in Yugoslavia can be explained by the increase of antisemitism in Europe. In April 1941, Yugoslavia was occupied by German, Hungarian, Italian, and Bulgarian troops. How many countries did Germany control by the end of 1940? In 1931-1932, even among the Serbian population, the demand for the restoration of parliamentary representation was raised, "the dictatorship seemed on the verge of collapse" (NIYB), "the movement for the establishment of a federal state .. made great headway" (NIYB). The Soviet urban population increased by 6.3 million, or ten percent, between 1940 and 1950; 5.8 million of this was in Russia, which was a 15 percent increase. By 1940 Germany had a Yugoslavia Flag Map. In 1940 Yugoslavia was bordering with both fascist Italy and Nazi Germany itself. Many consider the Yugoslav Civil War to be a secondary front of the Versailles War as it occurred There are head of household censuses for 1815, 1824, and 1834. Peoples of Yugoslavia. Subcategories. The time of Tito During World War II, communist-led partisans waged a victorious guerrilla struggle against foreign and Croatian fascists, and supporters of the prewar government. What was the population of Yugoslavia in 1940? Lucretia Kuglio was born about 1873 in Yugoslavia. View more results from the 1940 Census. Before the Second World War, Yugoslavia bore all the features of an . This snapshot of Louis Skubis's life was captured by the 1940 U.S. Census. An important tool for analyzing the age and sex composition of the population is the age-sex pyramid. View more results from the 1940 Census. 1989. the Official etimate of the population of Yugoslavia for 1939 is 15,703 Source - League of Nations Statisitical Yearbook Thinking often on VRBAS in the Backa by Valerie Kreutz The population of Yugoslavia, 1948-1991 Yugosl Surv. This is a list of countries by population in 1939, providing an approximate overview of the world population before World War II. the Official etimate of the population of Yugoslavia for 1939 is 15,703. This number represented more than 60 percent of the world's Jewish population, which was estimated at 15.3 million. Tito's tight rein on Yugoslavia keeps ethnic tensions in check until his death in 1980. The third Yugoslavia, inaugurated on April 27, 1992, had roughly 45 percent of the population and 40 percent of the area of its predecessor and consisted of only two republics, Serbia and Montenegro, which agreed to abandon the name Yugoslavia in 2003 and rename the country Serbia and Montenegro. For most of Yugoslavia, the earliest census listing family members was taken in 1863. Bosnia and Herzegovina's total population grew at quite a steady rate from the early nineteenth century until the mid-1900s, increasing from 852,000 people in This age-sex pyramid shows the number of males (on the left) and number of females (on the right) by single years of age. Population of Western Balkans. Before the First World War were Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia Herzegovina parts of the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary. Without his pan-Slavic influence, ethnic and nationalist differences begin to flare. The Yugoslav Civil War was the result of rising ethnic tensions in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between Roman Catholic Croatians and Eastern Orthodox Serbians. Estimated pre-war Jewish population and estimated number of murdered Jews per country during the Holocaust from 1930 to 1945. the census of 31 January 1921) 343 Table 3 The Partition of Yugoslav Territory, 1941 343 Table 4 Ethnic Composition of Yugoslavia, 19481981 344 of Yugoslavia covering the entire twentieth century. This website allows you full access to the 1940 census images, in addition to 1940 census maps and descriptions. The first census after World War I was conducted in 1921. Slovenia and Croatia each declare independence. Welcome to the 1940 census. There are no immigration & emigration collections unique to Yugoslavia.