Head of state of Yugoslavia
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| Style | His Majesty |
| First monarch | Peter I |
| Last monarch | Peter II |
| Formation | 1 December 1918 |
| Abolition | 29 November 1945 |
| Residence | Royal Compound, Belgrade |
| Appointer | Hereditary |
| Pretender(s) | Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia |
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| Formation | 29 December 1945 |
| First holder | Ivan Ribar |
| Final holder | Stjepan Mesić |
| Abolished | 5 December 1991 |
| Succession |
 Franjo Tuđman Dobrica Ćosić Alija Izetbegović Kiro Gligorov Milan Kučan
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This article lists the heads of state of Yugoslavia from the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Kingdom of Yugoslavia) in 1918 until the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992.
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a monarchy ruled by the House of Karađorđević from 1918 up until World War II. The SFR Yugoslavia was headed first by Ivan Ribar, the President of the Presidium of the People's Assembly (president of the parliament), and then by President Josip Broz Tito until his death in 1980, when the collective federal presidium rotated the presidency among the republic representatives. However, until 1990 the position of President of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia was usually the most powerful position (the position often coincided with the position of President). With the reforms in 1990, individual republics elected their own heads of state, but the country's head of state continued to rotate among appointed representatives of the republics until the country's dissolution.
The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was created by the unification of the Kingdom of Serbia (the Kingdom of Montenegro had united with Serbia five days previously, while the regions of Kosovo, Vojvodina and Vardar Macedonia were parts of Serbia prior to the unification) and the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (itself formed from territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire) on 1 December 1918.
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