Background
The term Yugoslavs refers to Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, and Montenegrins as a single people. Slovenes and Macedonians are slightly different linguistically, but were an extended and crucial part of the Yugoslav identity— their cultural differences due to empires that ruled their tribes in the past. For instance, Austrian, Venetian, and Hungarian influence on the Yugoslavs is mainly found among the (Catholic) Croatian and Slovene regions, the (Muslim) Bosnian region under the Ottoman influence, and the Orthodox and Byzantine Serbian and Montenegrin region under Greek and Russian influence.
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