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As the title says, make the South Slavs unite differently from the OTL Yugoslav state that was centred in Serbia but attempted to appease the other ethnic groups. The borders do not need to be those of OTL Yugoslavia. Any South Slavic nation state that contains a few South Slavic ethnicities (for this challenge, Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks will count as separate ethnicities, but if anyone tries to convince me Montenegrins are not ethnic Serbs, I'll laugh at them), controls at least about 1/3 of South Slavic lands, and is motivated at least in part by some variety pan-Slavism is acceptable.

The POD must be 1800 or later and plausible.

Beyond that, do whatever you want. There are plenty of options. You could have another country be the unifying force the Croatian Illyrian movement succeed or make Bulgaria do the unifier. You could have a complete unification (OTL Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and maybe even more like Dobruja or parts of Albania). You could also have a Serb-Centred state with different borders, or anything else you can think of.

This challenge isn't so much about the premise being hard, it's quite easy (well, some specific PODs are hard) it's more about coming up with an interesting alternative.

It was originally going to be about the Illyrian movement, but I figured that was too obscure so I left more options. If you want a more specific challenge, make the Illyrian movement succeed.

For those that don't know what I mean by South Slavs, here are some reference maps:

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