Victory Day (Croatia)
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Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of Croatian Defenders, commonly shortened to Victory Day, is a public holiday in Croatia that is celebrated annually on 5 August, commemorating the Cr
Soldiers raising the Flag of Croatia on Knin Fortress, 5 August 2011
A banner marking Victory Day on a construction site in Zagreb, 2010
Victory Day flag parade in Knin, 2015
Republic of Serbian Krajina
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The Republic of Serbian Krajina or Serb Republic of Krajina, also known as the Serbian Krajina or simply Krajina, was an unrecognised geopolitical entity and a self-proclaimed Serb quasi-state, a terr
Victory Day (Croatia)
…Independence. On that date in 1995 the Croatian Army took the city of Knin during Operation Storm, which effectively brought an end to the proto-state of Republic of Serbian Krajina. In 2008, the Croatian Parliament also assigned the name Day of Croatian Defenders (Dan hrvatskih branitelja) to the holiday, which honors the current…
Serb-populated areas in Croatia (according to the 1981 census)
Change in the ethnic composition of Krajina from April 1991 to July 1992. Serbs increased from 52.3% to 88% of the total population
Two proposed autonomous districts of Croatia are shown in dark green.
1992: RSK president Goran Hadžić.