Krajina (pron) is a Slavic toponym, meaning `frontier` or `march`. The term is related with kraj or krai, denoting a region or province, usually distant from the metropole. ==Etymology== In old-Croatian, this earliest geographical term appeared at least from 10th century within the Glagolitic inscriptions in Chakavian dialect, e.g. in Baška t...
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(from the article `Serbia`) ...and southern Bosnia across the Danube and Sava. There they were settled and became the basis of the Austrian Militärgrenze, or Military Frontier. ... ...the democratic opposition. This gave him the freedom to adopt a new stance with respect to the international community. Thus, when a Croatian ... ...
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Region on the frontier between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina; the chief town is Knin. Dominated by Serbs, the region proclaimed itself an autonomous Serbian province after Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. Krajina was the scene of intense inter-ethnic fighting during the civil war in Croatia 1991–92 and, f...
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