Summary
Gilles Troude: Ethnic conflicts in Tito's Yugoslavia
Was this conflict predictable? In 1983, a well-known American university professor
pointed out that "Yugoslavia", since it is about that country, is "divided by language, religion, culture, territory
and nationality". Even more briefly, we will say that it is no coincidence that the conflicts broke out in a country that
is located at the cultural crossroads of the Old World: on the one hand, an ancient area of Germanic culture, which
includes Slovenia, Croatia and part of Vojvodina; on the other hand, the area of Orthodox culture, the distant
successor of the thousand-year-old Byzantine Empire, with Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro; and finally, the area of Muslim culture, in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. In some regions, such as
Bosnia and Herzegovina, the situation is even more complicated, since these three cultures are closely intertwined.
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