Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 1918
Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1929
In late 1918 a new state, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, was formed by the newly united Kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro with the short-lived State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs that encompassed the southern Slavic lands of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1929 it was renamed Jugoslavija (in Serbian Cyrillic: Југославија); "jugo" means "south", hence "the land of the Southern Slavs". As Kosovo had been incorporated into Serbia in 1912, it became part of this state also.