Krajina - Political Regions

Political Regions

Subdivisions of Austria-Hungary:

  • Military Krajina (Military Frontier, Militärgrenze), borderland of Austria against the Ottoman Empire. It was further divided into:
    • Banat Krajina (on the Serbian-Romanian border)
    • Croatian Krajina (on the border of western Croatia and Bosnia)
    • Slavonian Krajina (on the border of Serbia and eastern Croatia towards Bosnia)

Political units formed during the war in Croatia in the 1990s:

  • Republic of Serbian Krajina
  • SAO Krajina
  • SAO Kninska Krajina, Kninska Krajina since the Yugoslav wars is used by some to signify two regions Knin and its surroundings, and to a larger extend Krajina proper (referring to main portion of Republic of Serb Krajina).
  • SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem, sometimes called Podunavska Krajina

Political unit formed during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s:

  • SAO Bosanska Krajina

Where the term "Serbian Krajina" or "Krajina" alone is used, it probably refers to the former Republic of Serbian Krajina.

In Russia:

  • "krai" or "kray" is the word for the territories of Russia, a second-level subdivision

In Slovakia:

  • "kraj" is used for the regions of Slovakia, a first-level subdivision

In Czech Republic:

  • "kraj" is used for the regions of the Czech Republic, a first-level subdivision

In Ukraine:

  • Krajina or країна - means country, land in Ukrainian. Ukrajina is Ukrainian ethnonym for Ukraine. See also: Name of Ukraine.

Read more about this topic:  Krajina

Famous quotes containing the words political and/or regions:

    “The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.”
    —Oswald Spengler (1880–1936)