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Yugoslavia – Winter Olympics Sarajevo 1984
8th Mediterranean Games – Split
1979
1978 Proof Silver 200 Dinara 32mm (15.10 grams) 0.925 Silver (0.4461 oz. ASW)
Reference: KM# 67
SFR JUGOSLAVIJA – СФР ЈУГОСЛАВИЈА 1978 ДИНАРА DINARA DINARJEV ДИНАРИ 200,
Coat-of-arms left, ancient urn right.
JOSIP BROZ TITO POKROVITELJ VIII
MEDITERANSKIH IGARA .SPLIT1979., Tito facing left.
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The VIII Mediterranean Games – Split 1979,
commonly known as the 1979 Mediterranean Games,
were the 8th Mediterranean Games. The Games were
held in Split, Yugoslavia, from 15 to 29
September 1979, where 2,408 athletes (2,009 men
and 399 women) from 14 countries participated.
There were a total of 192 medal events from 26
different sports.
The games’ mascot was a Mediterranean monk
seal named Adrijana.
.svg/120px-Flag_of_Yugoslavia_(1946-1992).svg.png) Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian: Jugoslavija/Југославија, Slovene: Jugoslavija, Macedonian: Југославија) was a country in Southeast Europe during most of the 20th century. It came into existence after World War I in 1918[i] under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes by the merger of the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (itself formed from territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire) with the formerly independent Kingdom of Serbia. The Serbian royal House of Karađorđević became the Yugoslav royal dynasty. Yugoslavia gained international recognition on 13 July 1922 at the Conference of Ambassadors in Paris. The country was named after the South Slavic peoples and constituted their first union, following centuries in which the territories had been part of the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary.
  Renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 3 October 1929, it was invaded by the Axis powers on 6 April 1941. In 1943, a Democratic Federal Yugoslavia was proclaimed by the Partisan resistance. In 1944, the king recognised it as the legitimate government, but in November 1945 the monarchy was abolished. Yugoslavia was renamed the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946, when a communist government was established. It acquired the territories of Istria, Rijeka, and Zadar from Italy. Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito ruled the country as president until his death in 1980. In 1963, the country was renamed again as the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).
 The constituent six socialist republics that made up the country were the SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SR Croatia, SR Macedonia, SR Montenegro, SR Serbia, and SR Slovenia. Serbia contained two Socialist Autonomous Provinces, Vojvodina and Kosovo, which after 1974 were largely equal to the other members of the federation. After an economic and political crisis in the 1980s and the rise of nationalism, Yugoslavia broke up along its republics’ borders, at first into five countries, leading to the Yugoslav Wars.
After the breakup, the republics of Serbia and Montenegro formed a reduced federation, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), which aspired to the status of sole legal successor to the SFRY, but those claims were opposed by the other former republics. Eventually, Serbia and Montenegro accepted the opinion of the Badinter Arbitration Committee about shared succession. Serbia and Montenegro themselves broke up in 2006 and became independent states, while Kosovo proclaimed independence in 2008.
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