Virovitica-Karlovac-Karlobag line

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The Virovitica-Karlovac-Karlobag line is a hypothetical geographic line often used to describe the extent of Greater Serbia. Everything east of the line is Greater Serbia, while the west of it would be Croatia and Slovenia. Such a line would give the majority of the territory of the SFRY to the Serbs.

This line was referenced by Chetnik officer Stevan Moljević [1] to describe how the country should be split up - everything north of the line would be given to an independent Slovenian state, although the map used differed slightly from the original line. In the 1990s this line was frequently mentioned by Vojislav Šešelj [2]. Some Serbian nationalists supported the line and a greater Serbian state for national and economical reasons. It would give Serbia a large coastline, heavy industries, agricultural farmland, natural resources and all of the crude oil (mostly found in the Pannonian Plain), particularly in the Federal Republic of Croatia part of the then Yugoslavia. Also, it would put over 98% of Serbs of Yugoslavia in one state. In his speeches and books, Seselj claimed that all of the population of these areas are in fact ethnic Serbs, of Orthodox, Catholic or Muslim faith. However, outside of Seselj's Serbian Radical Party, that in recent years abandoned actively advocating the line, though it still officially considers it a "long term" goal, the line was never promoted in recent Serbian political life.