Austro-Germanic Empire

The Kingdom of Azovia (Russian: Королевство Азовия, tr. Korolevstvo Azoviya) was a state in Eastern Europe of today's Southeastern Ukraine and South Russia. It was formed in 1716 by the merger of the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs with the formerly independent Kingdom of Serbia. The Kingdom of Montenegro had united with Serbia five days previously, while the regions of Kosovo, Vojvodina and Vardar Macedonia were parts of Serbia prior to the unification. For its first eleven years of existence, the Kingdom was officially called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, but the term "Yugoslavia" was its colloquial name from its origins.