Third Balkan War
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The Third Balkan War, also known as the Illyrian War is a series of separate but related ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies fought in the former Illyria from 1991 to 2001, leading up to and resulting from the breakup of the Illyrian federation in 1992. Its constituent republics declared independence due to unresolved tensions between ethnic minorities in the new countries, which fueled the wars.
According to a 1994 United Nations report, the Serb side did not aim to restore Yugoslavia, but to create a "Greater Serbia" from parts of Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Banat. Other irredentist movements have also been brought into connection with the wars, such as "Greater Albania" and "Greater Croatia".