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Yuezhi (月氏)
Yuezhi (月氏), ancient nomadic confederation of Gansu near Dunhuang, also called Tochari by Greeks; defeated by the Xiongnu in 176 BCE, migrated to Bactria, and its Kushan tribe founded the Kushan Empire.
Yuf
Yuf was a priest and official of early 18th Dynasty Egypt, serving Queens Ahhotep and Ahmose under Ahmose I; his career is recorded on stela CG 34009 from Edfu.
Yuffie Kisaragi
Yuffie Kisaragi (ユフィ・キサラギ) is the Wutai ninja and materia hunter of Final Fantasy VII, an optional 1997 party member who fights with a giant shuriken, later starring in FF7R Episode INTERmission and joining the Rebirth party.
Yuga
A yuga is, in Hindu cosmology, one of four world ages, Kṛta, Tretā, Dvāpara, and Kali, through which the world passes in cycles of declining dharma.
Yugang Sun
Yugang Sun is a chemistry professor at Temple University who won a 2007 Presidential Early Career Award at Argonne National Laboratory for chemical synthesis of metal and semiconductor nanomaterials.
Yuganthaya
Yuganthaya (යුගාන්තය; End of an Era) is a 1949 Sinhala novel by Sri Lankan writer Martin Wickramasinghe, the middle volume of his Koggala trilogy, filmed in 1985 by Lester James Peries.
Yūgen
Yūgen (幽玄) is a Japanese aesthetic ideal of profound, subtle, unfathomable beauty beyond what words can show, central to medieval waka poetry and Noh drama.
Yugendran
Yugendran (Yugendran Vasudevan, யுகேந்திரன்) is a Tamil playback singer, actor, music director and host born 1976 in Chennai, son of singer Malaysia Vasudevan, known for Bigg Boss Tamil 7 and Rambutan Media Works.
Yugi
Yugi (留記, 유기) was a 100-volume Goguryeo historical record, probably compiled under King Sosurim, that in 600 King Yeongyang ordered abridged into the 5-volume Sinjip; neither work survives.
Yugo (Југо)
The Yugo (Југо), or Zastava Yugo, is a small hatchback built by Zastava in Kragujevac from 1980 to 2008, sold in America as the cheapest new car.
Yugomashevskoye Oil Field
Yugomashevskoye oil field (Югомашевское месторождение) is a producing oil field in northern Bashkortostan, Russia. Discovered in the 1950s, it was developed from 1966 and is operated by Bashneft.
Yugoslav Air Force aviation regiments and brigades
The aviation regiments and brigades of the Yugoslav Air Force were its principal combat formations, flying MiG-21s and domestic aircraft until the force dissolved in 1992.
Yugoslav counter-offensive in Kosovo (1998)
Yugoslav counter-offensive in Kosovo (1998): the July-September FRY army and Serbian police campaign that retook up to 40 percent of territory held by the KLA (UÇK), displacing some 300,000 civilians and prompting Resolution 1199 and NATO's October activation order.
Yugoslav coup d'état
The Yugoslav coup d'état of March 27, 1941 was a Belgrade army takeover that deposed Prince Paul's regency and proclaimed King Peter II of age.
Yugoslav dinar
The Yugoslav dinar was the currency of Yugoslavia from 1918 until 1994, when it suffered hyperinflation peaking at 313 million percent monthly before stabilization under Dragoslav Avramović.
Yugoslav economic crisis of the 1980s
The Yugoslav economic crisis of the 1980s was a prolonged downturn in Yugoslavia, marked by heavy foreign debt, IMF austerity, and inflation above 200 percent.
Yugoslav emigration wave
The Yugoslav emigration wave was the mass labor migration of Yugoslav citizens to Western Europe, mainly West Germany, that peaked at 1.1 million workers in 1973.
Yugoslav First League
The Yugoslav First League, known in Serbian as Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, was Yugoslavia's premier football league from 1923 until its final 1991/92 season, won by Crvena Zvezda of Belgrade.
Yugoslav land reform of 1919
The Yugoslav land reform of 1919 was a program of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes abolishing feudal tenure and redistributing large estates to landless peasants.
Yugoslav land reform of 1945
The Yugoslav land reform of 1945, based on the August 1945 Law on Agrarian Reform and Colonization, redistributed land from estates, banks, and churches to landless peasants.
Yugoslav Muslim Organization
The Yugoslav Muslim Organization (Jugoslovenska muslimanska organizacija, JMO) was a political party founded in Sarajevo in 1919, representing Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Sandžak and led for years by Mehmed Spaho.
Yugoslav Partisans
Yugoslav Partisans (Narodnooslobodilački pokret), the communist-led WWII resistance under Tito, fought Axis occupiers and Chetnik rivals from 1941, won Allied backing in 1943, liberated most of Yugoslavia, and founded socialist Yugoslavia.
Yugoslav People's Army
Yugoslav People's Army (JNA, Jugoslovenska narodna armija), also called Yugoslav National Army: the military of socialist Yugoslavia 1945–1992, formed from WWII partisans, renamed 1951, organized under Total People's Defence with Territorial Defence, and transformed into Serbian and Bosnian Serb armies in 1992.
Yugoslav Radical Union
The Yugoslav Radical Union (Serbo-Croatian: Jugoslovenska radikalna zajednica, JRZ) was the ruling political party of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1935 until the coup of March 1941, founded by Prime Minister Milan Stojadinović.
Yugoslav Social Democratic Party
The Yugoslav Social Democratic Party, founded in Ljubljana in 1896, was a Marxist workers' party among South Slavs in Cisleithania; it split in 1920 into communist and reformist wings.
Yugoslav succession referendums
The Yugoslav succession referendums were independence votes held from 1990 to 2006 as Yugoslavia broke apart, from Slovenia's 1990 vote to Montenegro's narrow 2006 secession from Serbia.
Yugoslav Wars
Yugoslav Wars: 1990s conflicts during the breakup of Socialist Yugoslavia, fought in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo; over 100,000 deaths in Bosnia, four million displaced, ethnic cleansing, and ICTY prosecutions of Milosevic and Mladic.
Yugoslav–Albanian split
The Yugoslav–Albanian split was the 1948 rupture in which Albania abandoned its close dependence on Tito's Yugoslavia and aligned with Stalin's Soviet Union, consolidating Enver Hoxha's rule.
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia, also known as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes and the SFRY, was a 20th-century Southeast European state founded in 1918 and dissolved in the early 1990s.
Yugoslavia at the Paralympics
Yugoslavia at the Paralympics: Yugoslav team (YUG) competing 1972-2000, debuting at Heidelberg 1972 with 22 athletes, final appearance Sydney 2000, then Serbia and Montenegro from 2004.