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Author: HI my name is Chelsea.  My family is from Ecuador and Ireland .

Geography

The Name of the country I have been researching is Yugoslavia. The capital is Belgrade. It is in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent it is located on is Europe. The Neighboring countries are Croatia Belgrade, Hungry and Mace.

Population

The population in my country is: 10,656,929. The life expectancy is 73.72 years. The literacy rate is ages 15 and older can read and write. The total population that can read and write is 93%. 92% male and 88% female can read and write.

Climate

The climate in the winter is generally cold. Summers are cool in the mountains and valleys. A natural disaster is a destructive earthquakes. 

Economy

The currency in my country is a new Yugoslav Diner note in Montenegro the German Deusche mark is legal tender. People typically provide for themselves depending on how much money people have if you a poor person living in Yugoslavia then you eat off your crops. If you are a person living in Yugoslavia that has a lot of money they usually  will have a job and normally buys food or goes out to a restaurant. 

 Government

Laws are made based on the civil law system. People choose leaders just like presidents. They choose a new leader every with 2 four year terms. The next president will be chosen in 2004. The Yugoslavian Government has a legislative branch  a judicial branch and they also have an executive branch. 

Cultural Arts

This is an example of  architecture from Yugoslavia.

Alexandre Nevsky Cathedral (Yellow brick road) Yugoslavia

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• Here is a link to a famous art museum Astrapas Gallery 

• Yes there is one Dance it is called the Hora

•  Museum of the Revolution, Museum of Painting and Museum of Archaeology

Food

The kind of crops that are grown are corn, rye, wheat and additional produce.

People get food by growing it themselves; whatever the plant they eat. A staple food is wheat but a food that Yugoslav's eat a lot is French fried potatoes and stuffed cabbage.  

A typical day's menu for breakfast they eat eggs. For lunch the eat chicken noodle soup. For dinner the eat pork chops.

Religion

Three major religions practiced in Yugoslavia are: Eastern Orthodox Roman Catholicism, and Islam. 

Social Etiquette

Everybody eats together at dinner breakfast and lunch. You are supposed to be very polite. Everybody shares in the clean up after dinner wiith the help of the mothers but not the fathers.

Family Values

Grandparents do live with the family. Also when an older member of the family is sick a younger person does help care for the ill person.

The responsibilities of the mother is to work inside; the father usually works outside with the crops  There is a special holiday - it is Mothers Day on March 8th. 

Children's Rights

Responsibilities: the boys work in the farms, the girls work in the house. sons and daughters are treated equally but the male is more dominant.  Children do go to school. The high school only goes up to 10th grade. aAter this you graduate and attend a 4 year college in the big cities.

Holidays and Festivals

On most holidays in Yugoslavia a tradition is to eat a pot of chicken soup. Some holidays are the following:

Sports and Recreation

What people do for fun is they enjoy getting together for coffee at outdoor cafes. People also enjoy arguing about culture and politics. Most adults like singing. Kids entertain themselves in many ways  in Yugoslavia by playing hide-and-go-seek, hopscotch and video games. Many sports are also played there like hockey, basketball and soccer.

Useful Expressions:

Languages spoken in the Yugoslavia are Serbian and Albanian. In Yugoslavia 95% of the people speak Serbian and 6% speak Albanian. One person greets another person by saying hello.

English

Translation

Good-bye

  Dovidjenja

Hello

   Zdravo

Help

   U Pomoc!

I'm sorry

   Zao mi je / Izvinit / Izvinite