Highway "Brotherhood and Unity"

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Highway "Brotherhood and Unity" (Serbian: "Братство и јединство", Croatian/Bosnian: "Bratstvo i jedinstvo", Slovenian: "Bratstvo in enotnost", Macedonian: "Братство и единство") stretched across former Yugoslavia, from the Austrian border in the northwest, near Triglav, via Ljubljana, Zagreb, Belgrade, Skopje to Gevgelija on the Greek border in the southeast.

It was named autoput or autocesta (generic Serbo-Croatian words for highway, motorway), because at the time it was the one and only modern highway in the country. This use is gradually fading out as new roads get built.

During SFRY, the road was brought up to modern standards (four lanes, two for each direction, plus an emergency lane for each direction) on sections Kranj-Ljubljana, Zagreb-Slavonski Brod and Sremska Mitrovica-Belgrade-Niš.

Work on the parts that ran through Croatia commenced in 1977. As of 2006, modern freeway is completed through Croatia (from Slovenian to Serbian border), on approximately 80% length through Slovenia (fully completed by 2008) and almost complete in Macedonia (small part between Kumanovo and Serbian border is missing). In Serbia, most recent construction is section Niš-Leskovac-Grdelica and section between Grdelica and Macedonian border is in planning phase.

The road is part of the modern-day european routes E61 (Austria-Ljubljana) E70 (Ljubljana-Belgrade) and E75 (Belgrade-Greece). It is also part of the Pan-European corridor X.

The project to build this road was an idea of Tito, who called the project the "Road of brotherhood and unity" (Cesta bratstva i jedinstva).