During the interwar years, famous Serbian poet Jovan Dučić (1919-1921) and Ivo Andrić (1928-1929, 1961 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature) were serving as ambassadors of the newly founded Kingdom of Yugoslavia to Spain.

[2] Department of Hispanic Studies of the University of Belgrade was founded in 1971 while Luis Miguel Dominguín bull fight (event protested against by an animal welfare group) attracted 5000 spectators in the same year.

[1] Yugoslavia refused to establish formal relations with Franco's regime which postponed appointment of the first Spanish ambassador in Belgrade till 1977.

[1] In 1991 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain Francisco Fernández Ordóñez proposed to the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Community to initiate a quick recognition and enlargement procedure with Yugoslavia as the only way to prevent the breakup of the country.

[3] Spain preferred to be perceived as the neutral player in the region during the conflict but its foreign policy was generally sympathetic towards Serbia which was perceived as the core state of former multinational and diverse Yugoslav state.