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Proposal to change article name

I think it would make more sense to name this article, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia' or FR Yugoslavia, instead of Serbia and Montenegro. The name Serbia and Montenegro was only used for the last three years of the country's existence, and indeed the Serbian Wikipedia version of this article uses Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as its name, and has a separate article for the brief existence of Serbia and Montenegro. Kurt Hartman 15:18, 24 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It was commonly known in English sources as "Serbia and Montenegro" during all of its existence. See the 1993 CIA World Factbook [1]. It is listed as "Serbia and Montenegro". Same in the 2000 edition. Vanjagenije (talk) 22:25, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That's not the official name though. Also, NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, not NATO bombings of Serbia and Montenegro. Kurt Hartman 17:57, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia uses most common names, not official names. See WP:COMMONNAME. Vanjagenije (talk) 20:00, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thank you. Kurt Hartman 16:26, 29 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Montenegro as a Serb majority republic?

Under the heading entitled "History" in this article, the first sentence in the first paragraph says the following:

"After the collapse of SFR Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the two Serb majority republics, Serbia and Montenegro, agreed to remain as Yugoslavia, and established a new constitution in 1992, which established the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia essentially as a rump state, with a population consisting of a majority of Serbs."

Now, I was surprised to read this, as I assumed that Montenegro is ethnically different or otherwise it would not have seceded from the union with Serbia. However, reading the Wikipedia article on that country, it turned out that Serbs is not a majority in Montenegro. Furthermore, there were in fact a separate and distinct Montenegrin culture and people, who constitutes the largest ethnic group (about 45% of the total population) in this country today according to the article on that country, with Serbs being the next largest ethnic group. Nowhere did the article on Montenegrin ethnic group say that it is a branch of Serb ethnic group or something like that.

That then leads to the question as to why the quoted sentence from this article says that both countries are "two Serb majority republics", which implies that Montenegro is or had been Serb majority. It is well possible that the Serbs were formerly a majority. However, I cannot find any information on such demographic change in Montenegro between the establishment of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) or State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, nor can I find any information that suggested that Serbs were once a majority in that country at any point during the existence of FRY. Moreover, it does raise the question as to why a separate state existed/exists in Montenegro if their majority is or were ethnically same as the country literally next door that it had peacefully joined as part of a new federation at the breakup of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY, before it seceded later.

All of that being said, I recommend either correction or clarification of this particular sentence to avoid the confusion and misunderstanding. Legion (talk) 00:49, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]