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Borislav Mikelić
Borislav Mikelić ( sr-cyr, Борислав Микелић; 13 September 1939 – 12 May 2018) was a Serbian businessman and politician. He was of Croatian Serb background. Early life A Serb born in Dobrljin, a village near Kostajnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the time in Yugoslavia, numerous members of Mikelić's family, including his parents, were killed in the Second World War by the Ustaše, along with masses of other Serbs, for involvement in the Partisan resistance movement. Eight of his relatives died in the notorious Jasenovac concentration camp. After the war, Mikelić grew up in orphanages in Slovenia and Croatia. He came to reside in the municipality of Petrinja in the Croatian region of Banovina, where he soon rose in the political structure. In the 1970's he served as mayor of Petrinja, and was an important figure there for the rest of the Socialist period. He set up the enterprise Gavrilović, a meat processing farm which was very successful, and he was recogni ...
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Republic Of Serbian Krajina
The Republic of Serbian Krajina or Serb Republic of Krajina ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Република Српска Крајина, Republika Srpska Krajina, separator=" / ", ; abbr. РСК / RSK), known as the Serbian Krajina ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српска Крајина, Srpska Krajina, separator=" / ", label=none) or simply Krajina (Крајина), was an unrecognized geopolitical entity and a self-proclaimed Serb quasi-state, a territory within the newly independent Republic of Croatia (formerly part of Socialist Yugoslavia), which it defied, and which was active during the Croatian War of Independence (1991–95). It was not recognized internationally. The name ''Krajina'' ("Frontier") was adopted from the historical Military Frontier of the Habsburg monarchy (Austria-Hungary), which had a substantial Serb population and existed up to the late 19th century. The RSK government waged a war for ethnic Serb independence from Croatia and unification with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavi ...
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Banovina (region)
Banovina or Banija is a geographical Regions of Croatia, region in central Croatia, between the Sava, Una (Sava), Una, Kupa (river), Kupa and Glina (river), Glina rivers. The main towns in the region include Petrinja, Glina, Croatia, Glina, Hrvatska Kostajnica, Kostajnica, and Dvor, Croatia, Dvor. There is no clear geographical border of the region towards the west and the neighboring region of Kordun. The area of Banovina is today administratively almost entirely located within the Sisak-Moslavina County. Name The region's principal names come from the word "ban (title), ban", with other names in use having included ''Banska Zemlja'' ("Ban's Land") and ''Banska Krajina'' ("Ban's Krajina, Frontier"), which is a reference to the medieval Ban of Croatia and the Military Frontier, specifically Croatian Military Frontier.Dalibor Brozović, ''Hrvatska enciklopedija'' (LZMK), 1. sv. (A – Bd), Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, Leksikografski zavod »Miroslav Krleža«, Zagreb, 19 ...
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Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević ( sr-Cyrl, Слободан Милошевић, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the President of Serbia between 1989 and 1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 until Overthrow of Slobodan Milošević, his оverthrow in 2000. Milošević played a major role in the Yugoslav Wars and became the first sitting head of state charged with war crimes. Born in Požarevac, he studied law at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law during which he joined the League of Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia. From the 1960s, he was advisor to the mayor of Belgrade, and in the 1970s he was a chairman of large companies as the protégé of Serbian leader Ivan Stambolić. Milošević was a high-ranking member of the League of Communists of Serbia (SKS) during the 1980s; he 8th Session of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia, came to power in 1987 after he ousted opponents, includin ...
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Gavrilović
Gavrilović (Cyrillic script: Гавриловић) is a predominantly Serbian and to a lesser extent Croatian surname, derived from the male given name "Gavrilo" (Gabriel). It may refer to: *Andrija Gavrilović (born 1965), Serbian-Italian basketball coach * Bogdan Gavrilović (1864–1947), Serbian mathematician, philosopher, and educator * Dragutin Gavrilović (1882–1945), notable Serbian and, later, Yugoslav military officer * Goran Gavrilović (born 1963), former Serbian professional footballer *Mihailo Gavrilović (1868–1924), prominent Serbian historian and diplomat * Miroslav Gavrilović (1930–1920), Serbian Patriarch as Irinej I * *Sanja Gavrilović (born 1982), hammer thrower from Croatia *Željko Gavrilović (born 1971), veteran Serbian footballer It may also refer to: * Gavrilović (company), the oldest Croatian meat and sausage manufacturer, founded in 1620 and based in Petrinja See also *Gavrić Gavrić () is a Serbian surname. Notable people with the name incl ...
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Croatian Democratic Union
The Croatian Democratic Union (, , HDZ) is a major conservative, centre-right political party in Croatia. Since 2016, it has been the ruling political party in Croatia under the incumbent Prime Minister Andrej Plenković. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Croatia, along with the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDP). It is currently the largest party in the Sabor with 55 seats. The HDZ governed Croatia from 1990 before the country gained independence from Yugoslavia until 2000 and, in coalition with junior partners, from 2003 to 2011, and since 2016. HDZ is a member of the Centrist Democrat International, International Democracy Union, and the European People's Party, and sits in the European People's Party Group in the European Parliament. HDZ is the first political party in Croatia to be convicted of corruption. History Origins The HDZ was founded on 17 June 1989 by Croatian dissidents led by former major general Franjo Tuđman. It was off ...
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Status Quo Ante Bellum
The term is a Latin phrase meaning 'the situation as it existed before the war'. The term was originally used in treaties to refer to the withdrawal of enemy troops and the restoration of prewar leadership. When used as such, it means that no side gains or loses any territorial, economic, or political rights. This contrasts with , where each side retains whatever territory and other property it holds at the end of the war. Historical examples An early example is the treaty that ended the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 between the Eastern Roman and the Sasanian Persian Empires. The Persians had occupied Asia Minor, Palestine and Egypt. After a successful Roman counteroffensive in Mesopotamia finally ended the war, the integrity of Rome's eastern frontier as it was prior to 602 was fully restored. Both empires were exhausted after this war, and neither was ready to defend itself when the armies of Islam emerged from Arabia in 632. Another example is the sixteenth-cent ...
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Jovan Rašković
Jovan Rašković ( sr-cyr, Јован Рашковић, ; 5 July 1929 – 28 July 1992) was a Serbs of Croatia, Croatian Serb psychiatrist, academic and politician. Early life Rašković was born in Knin in 1929. During World War II in Yugoslavia, after an Ustaše, Ustasha pogrom which resulted in the Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia, deaths of his relatives, he was exiled to Kistanje in Governorate of Dalmatia, Italian-occupied Dalmatia. Witnessing, in 1941, the psychological effect of genocide on a bereaved man from Kistanje who had lost his family left a strong impact on his worldview. He passed his secondary school exams in Šibenik, and graduated in Zagreb. He then studied electrical engineering and medicine at the University of Zagreb, where he obtained his diploma and a Doctor of Philosophy, PhD from the university's medical school. Career Before the wars In the 1960s, he served as director of Šibenik city hospital and later director of the medic ...
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Serb Democratic Party (Croatia)
The Serb Democratic Party (, СДС/SDS) was a political party in Croatia whose primary constituency was representing the Serbs of Croatia. It led the Republic of Serbian Krajina between its foundation in 1990 until its collapse in 1995. History The SDS was founded in the Socialist Republic of Croatia on February 17, 1990. It was organized by Jovan Rašković in 1990, with the wake of incoming democratic parliamentarism and rebirth of nationalism across Yugoslavia. The Croatian Democratic Union desired to gather the Croats, while SDS' aim were the Croatian Serbs. A sister party was founded in the neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina which took over the same lead, while the minor sister-parties in Serbia and Montenegro, where socialism was still strong, never became prominent. SDS participated in the first democratic elections in Croatia in April and May 1990, winning 1.55% of the vote in the first, and 2% in the second round, giving them several seats in the Croatian Parli ...
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Ivica Račan
Ivica Račan (; 24 February 1944 – 29 April 2007) was a Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2000 to 2003, heading two centre-left coalition governments. Račan became the first prime minister of Croatia not to be a member of the Croatian Democratic Union, namely the opposition coalition headed by his Social Democratic Party of Croatia, Social Democratic Party won the 2000 Croatian parliamentary election, 2000 parliamentary election and came to power for the first time since independence. He was the leader of the party, the successor of the League of Communists of Croatia, from 1990 to 2007. Before becoming prime minister, Račan served in the capacity of Leader of the Opposition (Croatia), Leader of the Opposition on two occasions: firstly, from the first multi-party elections in 1990 Croatian parliamentary election, May 1990 until the formation of a Cabinet of Franjo Gregurić, national unity government under Franjo Gregurić in July 1991; and seco ...
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Social Democratic Party Of Croatia
The Social Democratic Party of Croatia (, SDP) is a Social democracy, social democratic political party in Croatia. The SDP is Anti-fascism, anti-fascist, Progressivism, progressive, and strongly Pro-Europeanism, pro-European. The SDP was formed in 1990 as the successor of the League of Communists of Croatia, the Croatian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, which had governed Socialist Republic of Croatia, Croatia within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia since World War II. The party first won the elections in 2000 Croatian parliamentary election, 2000 and formed a coalition government headed by Ivica Račan. After losing the 2003 Croatian parliamentary election, 2003 general election, the party remained in opposition for eight years. In the 2011 Croatian parliamentary election, 2011 parliamentary election, SDP won 61 out of 151 seats in the Croatian Parliament, and managed to form the Cabinet of Zoran Milanović, 12th Croatian Government under Zoran Mil ...
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Socialist Party Of Croatia – Party Of Yugoslav Orientation
Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes the economic, political, and social theories and movements associated with the implementation of such systems. Social ownership can take various forms, including public, community, collective, cooperative, or employee.: "Just as private ownership defines capitalism, social ownership defines socialism. The essential characteristic of socialism in theory is that it destroys social hierarchies, and therefore leads to a politically and economically egalitarian society. Two closely related consequences follow. First, every individual is entitled to an equal ownership share that earns an aliquot part of the total social dividend ... Second, in order to eliminate social hierarchy in the workplace, enterprises are run by those employed, and not by the representatives of private or st ...
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League Of Communists Of Yugoslavia
The League of Communists of Yugoslavia, known until 1952 as the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, was the founding and ruling party of SFR Yugoslavia. It was formed in 1919 as the main communist opposition party in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and after its initial successes in the elections, it was proscribed by the royal government and was at times harshly and violently suppressed. It remained an illegal underground group until World War II when, after the invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, the military arm of the party, the Yugoslav Partisans, became embroiled in a bloody civil war and defeated the Axis powers and their local auxiliaries. After the liberation from foreign occupation in 1945, the party consolidated its power and established a one-party state, which existed in that form of government until 1990, a year prior to the start of the Yugoslav Wars and breakup of Yugoslavia. The party, which was led by Josip Broz Tito from 1937 to 1980, was the first commun ...
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