SAO North-East Bosnia (Serbian: САО Североисточна Босна / SAO Severoistočna Bosna) was a Serb Autonomous Region (Serbian: САО / SAO), a Serb break-away province, in the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SR BiH). It was established in September 1991, proclaimed by the Serb Democratic Party on 19 September 1991,[1] along with other SAOs (Eastern Herzegovina, Bosanska Krajina, Romanija), and included five districts in northeastern SR BiH.[2] It existed between September 1991 and 9 January 1992, when it became part of Republic of the Serb people of Bosnia and Herzegovina (later Republika Srpska). It was renamed SAO Semberija (Serbian Cyrillic: САО Семберија) in November 1991, and SAO Semberija and Majevica (САО Семберија и Мајевица[3]) in December 1991.[2] It included three municipalities (Bijeljina, Lopare and Ugljevik[4]), with a population of 150,000, out of whom 56–59% were ethnic Serbs.[5] The capital was Bijeljina.[2]
Serb Autonomous Region of North-East Bosnia | |||||||||
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| 1991–1992 | |||||||||
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| Status | Self-proclaimed entity | ||||||||
| Capital | Bijeljina 44°45′25″N 19°12′58″E / 44.75694°N 19.21611°E | ||||||||
| Government | Provisional government | ||||||||
| Historical era | Breakup of Yugoslavia | ||||||||
• Proclamation | 19 September 1991 | ||||||||
• Proclamation of the Republic of the Serb people of Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2 January 1992 | ||||||||
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References
edit- ^ Gow 1997, p. 34.
- ^ a b c Thomas & Mikulan 2013, p. 9.
- ^ Vojska. Vojnoizdavački i novinski centar. 1993.
- ^ National Security and the Future. St. George Association. 2005.
- ^ Ahrens 2007, p. 577.
Sources
edit- Ahrens, Geert-Hinrich (6 March 2007). Diplomacy on the Edge: Containment of Ethnic Conflict and the Minorities Working Group of the Conferences on Yugoslavia. Woodrow Wilson Center Press. pp. 577–. ISBN 978-0-8018-8557-0.
- Gow, James (1997). Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. pp. 34–. ISBN 978-1-85065-208-3.
- Thomas, Nigel; Mikulan, K (20 February 2013). The Yugoslav Wars (2): Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia 1992?2001. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-1-4728-0244-6.
