- SAO Kninska Krajina
Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Kninska Krajina (
Serbian Cyrillic : Српска аутономна област Книнска крајина, Croatian: Srpska autonomna oblast Kninska krajina) or SAO Kninska Krajina was aSerb ian self-proclaimed autonomous region (oblast) inCroatia . It was formed in1990 and was subsequently transformed intoSAO Krajina and included intoRepublic of Serbian Krajina .History
After multi-party elections in Croatia in 1990 ethnic tensions increased to the point that Serbs expected that
Franjo Tuđman , Croatian president, wouldn't give them autonomy after depriving them of constitutionality and was planning to leave Yugoslavia. In August they created an autonomous region around the city ofKnin called "SAO Kninska Krajina", which in October 1990 they declared to be theSAO Krajina after it came to encompase of Community (Association) of Municipalities of NorthernDalmatia andLika .SAO Kninska Krajina refers to the original Serbian Autonomous Region (SAO) which was just Knin and the area around it. However some use it to mean
SAO Krajina prior to the creation of theRepublic of Serbian Krajina , while some just use "Kninska Krajina" to refer to Krajina prior.ee also
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Kninska Krajina
*SAO Krajina
*Republic of Serbian Krajina
*Croatian war of independence
*Serbs in Croatia External links
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