The "National anthem of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia" ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Himna Kraljevine Jugoslavije, Химна Краљевине Југославије, Anthem of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) was created in December 1918 from the national anthems of the Kingdom's three historical constituent lands:
Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
The Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia ( hr, Kraljevina Hrvatska i Slavonija; hu, Horvát-Szlavónország or ; de-AT, Königreich Kroatien und Slawonien) was a nominally autonomous kingdom and constitutionally defined separate political nation with ...
(Croatia),
Kingdom of Serbia
The Kingdom of Serbia ( sr-cyr, Краљевина Србија, Kraljevina Srbija) was a country located in the Balkans which was created when the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Milan I, was proclaimed king in 1882. Since 1817, the Prin ...
(Serbia) and
Duchy of Carniola
The Duchy of Carniola ( sl, Vojvodina Kranjska, german: Herzogtum Krain, hu, Krajna) was an imperial estate of the Holy Roman Empire, established under Habsburg rule on the territory of the former East Frankish March of Carniola in 1364. A ...
(Slovenia).
At the time, the Yugoslav authorities considered the three dominant
South Slavic ethnic groups –
Croats
The Croats (; hr, Hrvati ) are a South Slavic ethnic group who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language. They are also a recognized minority in a number of neighboring countries, namely Austria, the Czech Republic ...
,
Serbs
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, and
Slovenes
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– as three interchangeable names for one ethnic group (
Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia an ...
and sl, narod "nation" or "people"), while the
Pan-Slavic politicians and parts of academia viewed them as three subgroups of one South Slavic nation ( hr, Jugoslaveni, sr-Latn-Cyrl, Jugosloveni, Југословени sl, Jugoslovani; "
Yugoslavs
Yugoslavs or Yugoslavians ( Bosnian and Croatian: ''Jugoslaveni'', Serbian and Macedonian ''Jugosloveni''/Југословени; sl, Jugoslovani) is an identity that was originally designed to refer to a united South Slavic people. It has b ...
"). Accordingly, the official language was thus called
Serbo-Croato-Slovene.
History
Although a law on the national anthem did not exist, the anthems of all three South Slavic nations were unified into a single anthem of the Kingdom. It started with a few measures from the Serbian anthem "
Bože pravde
"" ( sr-Cyrl, Боже правде, , "God of Justice") is the national anthem of Serbia, as defined by the Article 7 of the Constitution of Serbia. "Bože pravde" was the state anthem of the Kingdom of Serbia until 1919 when Serbia became a pa ...
", continued with a few lines from the Croatian anthem "
Lijepa naša domovino", which were in turn followed by a few lines from the traditional Slovenian anthem "
Naprej zastava slave". The anthem finished with some lines from the Serbian anthem again.
It was officially used between 1919 and 1941; there was no official document that declared it invalid or void. The Constitution of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was not in effect after the
April capitulation.
Lyrics
See also
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Hej Slaveni
Notes
References
External links
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{{National Anthems of Europe
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