Which country's name, existing 1929-2003, meant 'South Slavs'?
Slavs union of the 20th century that covered most South Slavs was Yugoslavia, but it ultimately broke apart in the 1990s along with the Soviet Union. The word "Slavs" was used in the national anthem of Yugoslavia (1943–1992) and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2003), later Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006). Today the modern Slavic people come from a wide variety of genetic backgrounds, the frequency of the Haplogroup R1a which is a DNA, is a human Y chromosome lineage and ranges accordingly : 63.39% by the Sorbs, 56.4% in Poland, 54% in Ukraine, 47% in Russia, 39% in Belarus, 15.2% in
South Slavs The South Slavs are known in Serbian, Macedonian and Montenegrin as "Južni Sloveni" (); in Bulgarian as "Yuzhni Slavyani" (); in Croatian and Bosnian as "Južni Slaveni"; in Slovene as "Južni Slovani". The Slavic root "*jugъ" means "south". The Slavic ethnonym itself was used by 6th-century writers to describe the southern group of Early Slavs (the "Sclaveni"); West Slavs were called "Veneti" and East Slavs "Antes". The South Slavs are also called "Balkan Slavs", although this term does not encompass the Slovenes. Another name popular in the Early modern period was "Illyrians", the name of a pre-Slavic Balkan people, a