Krajišnik is
Serbian surname
This article features the naming culture of personal names of ethnic Serbs and the Serbian language. Serbian names are rendered in the "Western name order" with the surname placed after the given name. "Eastern name order" may be used when multi ...
. The name is derived from the Serbian language term ''krajina''
or ''krajište'' ( sr, krajište, крајиште) that had originally served as an administrative unit of the Serbian Empire or
Despotate
Despot or ''despotes'' ( grc-gre, δεσπότης, despótēs, lord, master) was a senior Byzantine court title that was bestowed on the sons or sons-in-law of reigning emperors, and initially denoted the heir-apparent of the Byzantine emperor.
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to designate border regions where the emperor or despot had not established solid and firm control due to raids from hostile neighboring provinces. The
Albanian
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variant of the surname is
Kreshnik.
Notable people with Krajišnik surname include:
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Damjan Krajišnik
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Momčilo Krajišnik
Momčilo Krajišnik (; 20 January 1945 – 15 September 2020) was a Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Serb political leader, who along with Radovan Karadžić co-founded the Bosnian Serb nationalist Serb Democratic Party (Bosnia and Herz ...
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Munever Krajišnik
See also
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Krajišnik (disambiguation)
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Bosanska Krajina
Bosanska Krajina ( sr-cyrl, Босанска Крајина, ) is a geographical region, a subregion of Bosnia, in western Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is enclosed by a number of rivers, namely the Sava (north), Glina (northwest), Vrbanja and Vrba ...
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Bosansko Krajište
The Ottoman conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina was a process that started roughly in 1386, when the first Ottoman attacks on the Kingdom of Bosnia took place. In 1451, more than 65 years after its initial attacks, the Ottoman Empire officially es ...
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Krajišnik (Gradiška)
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NK Krajišnik Velika Kladuša
NK Krajišnik Velika Kladuša is a football club from Bosnia and Herzegovina based in Velika Kladuša
Velika Kladuša ( sr-cyrl, Велика Кладуша, ; lit. "Great Kladuša") is a town and municipality located in Una-Sana Canton of t ...
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Surnames of Serbian origin
Toponymic surnames