The nation's capital was Belgrade, located in the Serbian state. Although each state had its own government, Serbs dominated the central government and military. At the end of World War II (1939–45), Marshal Josip Tito (1892–1980) assumed control of Yugoslavia, aligning it as a republic with six states: (1) Serbia, its majority population being Serbs (2) Slovenia, 91 percent Slovene (3) Croatia, 78 percent Croat (4) Bosnia-Herzegovina, 38 percent Muslim Slovenes, who later became known as Bosnian Muslims, 22 percent Croat (5) Montenegro, 68 percent Montenegrins and (6) Macedonia, 67 percent Macedonians. Yugoslavia, formed in 1918 following World War I (1914–18), was home to three ethnic groups-the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. The country of Bosnia-Herzegovina is located on the Balkan Peninsula, encompassing land that was the west-central part of the former nation of Yugoslavia before its political breakup in 1990–91. Excerpt from Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo
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