The Brotherhood and Unity Highway (Serbo-Croatian: Autoput "Bratstvo i jedinstvo", "Братство и јединство"; Croatian: Autocesta "Bratstvo i jedinstvo"; Slovene: Avtocesta "Bratstvo in enotnost"; Macedonian: Автопат „Братство и единство“) was a highway that stretched over 1,180 km (730 mi) across former Yugoslavia, from the Austrian border at Rateče near Kranjska Gora in the northwest via Ljubljana, Zagreb, Belgrade and Skopje to Gevgelija on the Greek border in the southeast. It was the one and only modern highway in the country, connecting four constituent states.
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