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Name: SAO Western Slavonia

Type: Polity

Start: 1991 AD

End: 1992 AD

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Was a Serbian self-proclaimed Serb Autonomous Region (oblast) within Croatia.

Establishment


  • August 1991: Formation of Western Slavonia.
  • October 1991: Lipik and a part of Pakrac were captured.
  • October 1991: The Yugoslav People's Army were pushed away from Grubišno Polje.
  • November 1991: The mountains of Papuk and Bilogora, north of Pakrac where the Croatian Serb militia was not supported by the JNA, were brought under Croatian control in the same period.
  • November 1991: Croatian forces take Nova Gradiška.
  • December 1991: Lipik was recaptured by the Croatian forces, now renamed the Croatian Army (HV), in 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence.
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    1. Yugoslav Wars


    Were a series of independence wars and insurgencies that resulted in the breakup of Yugoslavia.

    1.1.Croatian War of Independence

    Was a war between the government of Croatia (that had recently gained its independency from Yugoslavia) and several local Serb forces.

    1.1.1.Indipendence and breakaway regions in Croatia

    Several territories seceded from Croatia when the country became independent from Yugoslavia.

  • January 1992: SAO Western Slavonia joined the Republic of Serbian Krajina.

  • 1.1.2.Offensive by the SAO of Krajina

    Was a military offensive by the Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Krajina during the Croatian War of Independence. .


    1.1.3.Croatian Counteroffensive in Western Slavonia

    Was a Croatian offensive against the breakaway Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Western Slavonia during the Croatian War of Independence.


    Disestablishment


  • January 1992: SAO Western Slavonia joined the Republic of Serbian Krajina.
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