State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs | ||||||||||||||||||
Država Slovenaca, Hrvata i Srba Држава Словенаца, Хрвата и Срба (Serbo-Croatian) Država Slovencev, Hrvatov in Srbov (Slovene) |
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Capital | Zagreb | |||||||||||||||||
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Political structure | Unrecognized provisional government | |||||||||||||||||
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• | 1918 | Anton Korošec | ||||||||||||||||
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• | 1918 | Ante Pavelić | ||||||||||||||||
• | 1918 | Svetozar Pribićević | ||||||||||||||||
Legislature | National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs | |||||||||||||||||
Historical era | Interwar period | |||||||||||||||||
• | Proclaimed secession | 29 October 1918 | ||||||||||||||||
• | Joined Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
1 December 1918 |
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Today part of |
Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Montenegro Serbia Slovenia |
The State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (Serbo-Croatian: Država Slovenaca, Hrvata i Srba/Држава Словенаца, Хрвата и Срба; Slovene: Država Slovencev, Hrvatov in Srbov) was a short-lived entity formed at the end of World War I by Slovenes, Croats and Serbs residing in what were the southernmost parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Although internationally unrecognized, this was the first incarnation of a Yugoslav state and had been founded on the Pan-Slavic ideology behind the initiative. A month after it was proclaimed, the State joined the Kingdom of Serbia to form the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
The Serbs identified in the name were those resident in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia-Slavonia, Syrmia and Dalmatia (including Boka Kotorska and Montenegrin Littoral as far as Spič, near Bar, Montenegro), not those residing in the Kingdom of Serbia (which included the territory of the present-day Republic of Macedonia), nor those living in the Kingdom of Montenegro or Vojvodina (including Banat, Bačka and Baranja).