YUGOSLAVIA, a country where various ethnic groups and religions did not BEAR with each other for long. I show you WWF maximum cards / maxicards / dorincards with The BROWN BEAR (Ursus arctos)

"The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear distributed across much of northern Eurasia and North America. It can weigh from 300 to 780 kilograms (660 to 1,700 lb) and its largest subspecies, the Kodiak Bear, rivals the polar bear as the largest member of the bear family^[2]and as the largest land-based predator.^[3]

There are several recognized subspecies within the brown bear species. In North America, two types are generally recognized, the coastal brown bear and the inland grizzly, and the two types could broadly define all brown bear subspecies. Grizzlies weigh as little as 350 lb (159 kg) in Yukon, while a brown bear, living on a steady, nutritious diet of spawning salmon, from coastal Alaska and Russia can weigh 1,500 lb (682 kg). The exact number of overall brown subspecies remains in debate.

While the brown bear's range has shrunk, and it has faced local extinctions, it remains listed as a least concern species by the IUCN, with a total population of approximately 200,000. Its principal range countries are Russia, the United States (mostly in Alaska), Canada, the Carpathian region (especially Romania, but also Ukraine, Slovakia, and so on), the Balkans, Sweden and Finland, where it is the national animal. The brown bear is the most widely distributed of all bears."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_bear

"Yugoslavia (Macedonian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene: Jugoslavija; Cyrillic: Југославија) refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans, during most of the 20th century."

Legacy

Main article: Former Yugoslavia

State and entities on the former territory of Yugoslavia, 2008.

New states

Countries created from the former Yugoslavia:

Name	Capital	Flag
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo
Croatia	Zagreb
Macedonia	Skopje
Montenegro	Podgorica
Serbia Kosovo[a]	Belgrade Priština
Slovenia	Ljubljana

See also

• History of the Balkans
• Yugoslav wars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia

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