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Krajina (around various versions) occurs as Slavic toponym which means:

borderland i.e. Krajna (on the border of Greater Poland and Pomerania provinces) Military Krajina (Military Frontier, Militärgrenze), borderland of Austria against the Ottoman Empire. It was divided into: Banat Krajina (on the Serbian-Romanian border) Slavonian Krajina (on the border of Vojvodina and eastern Croatia towards Bosnia) Croatian Krajina (on the border of western Croatia & Bosnia) Cazinska Krajina, borderland of Bosnia towards Croatia around the city of Cazin. Occasionally call for it Turska Krajina (Turkish Krajina) since a majority of the people in that locality come Muslims. Bosanska Krajina, same, however about Banja Luka and encompassing a big area Timočka Krajina, borderland of Serbia towards Bulgaria around river Timok Negotinska Krajina, a section of Timočka Krajina in a city of Negotin Bela Krajina, borderland of Slovenia towards Croatia Cetinska krajina, the watershed of flow of any stream Cetina in Dalmatian hinterland, touching a border by owning Herzegovina Political regions inside formed in a areas of previous Slavonian & Croatian Krajina in the period of the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s: Republic of Serbian Krajina SAO Krajina SAO Kninska Krajina, Kninskthe Krajina since the Yugoslav wars is utilized by a bit of to signify ii regions Knin & its surroundings, & to a larger extend Krajina proper (refering to independent part of Republic of Serbian Krajina). SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem, sometimes called Podunavska Krajina SAO Bosanska Krajina

In which a term "Serbian Krajina" or even "Krajina" alone is utilized, it probably refers to either a Military Krajina or even a previous RSK (Republic of Serbian Krajina).

country,state or province (versions: Pokrajina, Kraina, Kraj. Krai) we.e. Krais of Russia

Ukrajina is Ukrainian ethnonym for Ukraine.

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The Invasion of Serbian Krajina
Article sympathetic to the Serbian viewpoint.

Dossier "Storm"
Croatian viewpoint on the operation in Krajina.

Krajina Serbs
Serbian viewpoint on the conflict with Croatia over Krajina. Includes a chronology.






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