Serbia and Montenegro

found: Reuters, 02-04-2003(Yugoslavia officially buried what remained of the ... federation Tuesday ... and formed a loose union of Serbia and Montenegro to take its place. The federal assembly cleared the final hurdle for establishing the ... union by passing its founding charter ..., consigning the name Yugoslavia to history after almost 75 years ... The charter comes into force immediately, but it is expected to take about a month before the ... union--simply named Serbia and Montenegro--are set up)

found: Info. from chairman, United States Board on Geographic Names, Feb. 13, 2003(Foreign Names Committee, USBGN, approved the change of name from Yugoslavia [short form], Federal Republic of [conventional] to Serbia and Montenegro)

found: One world nations online Web site, Feb. 18, 2003(short form: Serbia and Montenegro (former Yugoslavia); long form: State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; on Feb. 4, 2003 the Yugoslav parliament adopted the Constitutional Charter of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, marking the beginning of a new reformed state, replacing the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.)

found: International Telecommunication Union home page, Mar. 19, 2003:overview/member states (Serbie-et-Monténégro; Serbia and Montenegro; Serbia y Montenegro)

found: GEOnet, 03-19-04(Serbia and Montenegro; PCLI, 43°45ʹ00ʺN, 20°45ʹ00ʺE; variant: Srbija i Crna Gora; earlier names: Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of; Jugoslavija, Savezna Republika; Jugoslavija; Yugoslavia)

found: vgazeta.kw.ukrtel.net/events/world(On 4 Feb. 2003 the former government of Yugoslavia ceased to exist after nearly 75 years and a new government named Serbii︠a︡ i Chernogorii︠a︡ came into existence)

found: Yahoo! News, June 3, 2006(Montenegro's parliament declared independence from Serbia June 3, 2006, forming Europe's newest country; the proclamation formally ended the Serbia-Montenegro union)

found: Wikipedia, July 11, 2006(Serbia and Montenegro (Serbian: Srbija i Crna Gora, abbreviated as SCG, State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, abbreviated as SUSM), was a confederated union of Serbia and Montenegro, which existed between 2003 and 2006. The two republics, both of which are former republics of the SFR Yugoslavia, initially formed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992. In 2003, the FRY was reconstituted as a State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The state union effectively came to an end after Montenegro's formal declaration of independence on June 3, 2006 and Serbia's formal declaration of independence on June 5)