Yugoslavs

Yugoslavs (Serbo-Croatian: Jugoslaveni, Jugosloveni; Serbian Cyrillic: Југословени; Slovene: Jugoslovani; Macedonian: Југословени, Bulgarian: Югославяни) is a designation that was originally designed to refer to a united South Slav people. It has been used in two connotations, the first in an ethnic or supra-ethnic connotation, and the second as a term for citizens of the former Yugoslavia. Cultural and political advocates of Yugoslav identity have historically ascribed the identity to be applicable to all people of South Slav heritage, including those of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and the presently disputed region of Kosovo, Slovenia, and the Republic of Macedonia. Efforts were made to incorporate Bulgaria into Yugoslavia, but this did not succeed.