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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A region of Croatia bordering on Bosnia and Herzegovina. Inhabited primarily by ethnic Serbs since the 1500s, the region opposed Croatia's secession from the former Yugoslavia and set up (1990) an autonomous Serbian state. It was retaken by Croatia in 1995, and the Serbian population was largely displaced.

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  • In the case of Bihac, you actually have a separatist group of Muslims fighting with Serbs from the Krajina, the so-called Krajina Serbs.

    Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1995

  • The Mohammedans form the mass of the population in the region called the Krajina in the north-west, in the district of Serajevo and in the south-eastern part of the territory; the Greek Schismatics preponderate in the district of Banjaluka.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • Mr. Hadzic is scheduled appear Monday in court, where will be read the charges he faces, including a long list of atrocities that took place in Croatia in the early 1990s when Serbs seized almost one-third of Croatian territory known as Krajina and drove out the non-Serb population, torturing and killing many.

    NYT > Home Page By MARLISE SIMONS 2011

  • Mr. Hadzic is scheduled appear Monday in court, where will be read the charges he faces, including a long list of atrocities that took place in Croatia in the early 1990s when Serbs seized almost one-third of Croatian territory known as Krajina and drove out the non-Serb population, torturing and killing many.

    NYT > Home Page By MARLISE SIMONS 2011

  • Mr. Hadzic is scheduled appear Monday in court, where will be read the charges he faces, including a long list of atrocities that took place in Croatia in the early 1990s when Serbs seized almost one-third of Croatian territory known as Krajina and drove out the non-Serb population, torturing and killing many.

    NYT > Home Page By MARLISE SIMONS 2011

  • The European Community also declared that the borders of republics could not be changed, so that, for instance, Croatia could secede, but not the Serbs in the region called Krajina who wanted to separate from Croatia, or, for that matter, the Albanians in Kosovo who wanted to secede from Serbia.

    The New York Review of Books 2010

  • Firstly if those fascists Raskovic, Hadzic, Seselj and others could, ve kept their mouths shut, now the so called Krajina would've been an autonomous region.

    Serbianna.com 2009

  • He is Goran Hadzic, former president of the so-called “Republic of Serbian Krajina” in Croatia.

    Mladic Latest to Appear Before International War Crimes Tribunal 2011

  • The rulings came after a three year trial investigating Operation Storm, a Croatian offensive carried out in 1995 to reclaim the republic of Krajina from Serb control.

    Hague Tribunal Convicts Two Former Croatian Generals 2011

  • They created their own Serb Republics, including one enclave in Krajina, where Hadzic served as president.

    Serbia Arrests Last Remaining War Crimes Fugitive 2011

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