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Krajina

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, following the ceasefire in January 1992, 10,000 UN troops were deployed here and in eastern and western Slavonia. Krajina and the area around Okucani were reintegrated into Croatia under the 1995 Dayton peace agreement; Eastern Slavonia was reintegrated in early 1998 after two years under UN administration.

Croatian forces recaptured the region in a major offensive in August 1995, forcing an estimated 150,000 Serbs to flee their homes.



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The split had more to do with stara krajina ("the old country") than Philadelphia, as Liberties immigrants were primarily from western Slovakia, especially Dolny Hricov and vicinity in Trencin county, where many had practiced the wireworking craft they continued to pursue in Philly.
Looking back, though, only eight years to 1995, one cannot discount the possibility that Canadians will be caught between conventional forces (the Krajina in 1995) or ordered to defend an enclave against the threat of attacks on defenceless individuals (the Dutch at Srebrenica in 1995).
Tesla, the son of a Serbian Orthodox priest, was born in a Yugoslav territory called Krajina during the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
 
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