Krajina

Krajina (in various versions) is a Slavic toponym which means:

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borderland i.e.

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• Krajna (on the border of Greater Poland and Pomerania provinces)
• Military Krajina (Military Frontier, Militärgrenze), borderland of Austria against the Ottoman Empire. It was divided into:
• Banat Krajina (on the Serbian-Romanian border)
• Slavonian Krajina (on the border of Vojvodina and eastern Croatia towards Bosnia)
• Croatian Krajina (on the border of western Croatia and Bosnia)
• Cazinska Krajina, borderland of Bosnia towards Croatia around the city of Cazin. Some call it Turska Krajina (Turkish Krajina) since the majority of the population in this area are Muslims.
• Bosanska Krajina, same, but around Banja Luka and encompassing a larger area
• Timočka Krajina, borderland of Serbia towards Bulgaria around river Timok
• Negotinska Krajina, a part of Timočka Krajina around the city of Negotin
• Bela Krajina, borderland of Slovenia towards Croatia
• Cetinska krajina, the watershed of river Cetina in Dalmatian hinterland, near the border with Herzegovina
• Political regions in formed in the areas of former Slavonian and Croatian Krajina during the Yugoslav wars 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 (refering to main portion of Republic of Serbian Krajina).
• SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem, sometimes called Podunavska Krajina
• SAO Bosanska Krajina

Where the term "Serbian Krajina" or "Krajina" alone is used, it probably refers to either the Military Krajina or the former RSK (Republic of Serbian Krajina).

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country,state or province (versions: Pokrajina, Kraina, Kraj. Krai) i.e.

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• Krais of Russia

Ukrajina is Ukrainian ethnonym for Ukraine.

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