Croatian Krajina

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Croatian Military Frontier.

The Croatian Krajina or Croatian Military Frontier is a territory formed out of the then Kingdom of Croatia in the late 16th century on the border of the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire, as part of the Military Frontier. Most of the soldiers were Serb and Vlach refugees from parts of Bosnia, Kosovo and Serbia. They fled from the Turkish soldiers who occupied the Balkans. In the Krajina zone, the Austrians promised freedom of religion, language and living to the Serbs in trade for their military expertise. Final life rules in Croatian Krajina has been established in 1630 with emperor Statuta Wallachorum. It was known that the soldiers had to fulfill military service from the age of 16 until 66. It existed until 1881, when it is restored to the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

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[edit] Geography

This part of the Military Frontier included the geographic regions of Lika, Kordun, Banija and bordered the Adriatic Sea to the west, Venetian Republic to the south, Habsburg Croatia to the west, and the Ottoman Empire to the east.

It extended onto the Slavonian Krajina near the confluence of the Una river into Sava. Like the rest of the Military Frontier, it ceased to exist as a political entity in the late 19th century.

[edit] Sections

Croatian Krajina included three sections: Varaždin Borderland (Bilogora and Podravina), Karlovac Borderland (Lika and Kordun), and Zagreb Borderland (Banija/Banovina).