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'''South Slavs''' are [[Slavs|Slavic people]] who speak [[South Slavic languages]] and inhabit a contiguous region of [[Southeast Europe]] comprising the eastern [[Alps]] and the [[Balkans|Balkan Peninsula]]. Geographically separated from the [[West Slavs]] and [[East Slavs]] by [[Austria]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], and the [[Black Sea]], the South Slavs today include [[Bosniaks]], [[Bulgarians]] (including [[Pomaks]]), [[Croats]], [[Macedonians (ethnic group)|Macedonians]] (including [[Torbeši|Torbešis]]), [[Montenegrins]], [[Serbs]], [[Slovenes]] and [[
In the 20th century, the country of [[Yugoslavia]] (from [[Serbo-Croatian]], literally meaning "South Slavia" or "South Slavdom") united a majority of the South Slavic peoples and lands—with the exception of Bulgarians and Bulgaria—into a single state. The [[Pan-Slavism|Pan-Slavic]] concept of ''Yugoslavia'' emerged in late 17th-century Croatia, at the time part of the [[Habsburg monarchy]], and gained prominence through the 19th-century [[Illyrian movement]]. The [[Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]], renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929, was proclaimed on 1 December 1918, following the unification of the [[State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs]] with the kingdoms of [[Kingdom of Serbia|Serbia]] and [[Kingdom of Montenegro|Montenegro]]. With the [[breakup of Yugoslavia]] in the early 1990s, several independent sovereign states were formed. The term "[[Yugoslavs]]" was and sometimes still is used as a synonym for "South Slavs", but frequently excludes Bulgarians, and sometimes only refers to the citizens or inhabitants of former Yugoslavia, or only to those who officially registered themselves as ethnic Yugoslavs.
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