Naming
The far northwest corner of Bosanska Krajina is also known as Cazinska Krajina named after the city of Cazin. It is also sometimes called Ljuta Krajina, meaning Mad Frontier, due to the uprisings that often originated there while it was a part of the Ottoman Empire and later Austria-Hungary.
Between the 16th and 19th centuries the territory between the Una and Vrbas rivers was referred by the name Turkish Croatia. The name was first used consistently by Austian military topographers who worked in the Austro-Ottoman border commission after the Treaty of Karlowitz of 1699. In the mid 19th century the name Turkish Croatia was replaced by cartographers in favor of Bosanska Krajina.
The name Turkish Croatia was given to the area by the Ottoman Turks and accepted by Austrian, Italian, and German cartographers. In 1860, the Serbian population of the area wanted that name abolished in favor of Bosanska Krajina (Bosnian Frontier). Bosanska Krajina first appears on maps in 1869.
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Famous quotes containing the word naming:
“Husband,
who am I to reject the naming of foods
in a time of famine?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul—half a drop! ah, my Christ!—
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!—
Yet will I call on him!—O, spare me, Lucifer!—
Where is it now? ‘T is gone; and see where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!—
Mountains and hills, come, come and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)