SAO North-East Bosnia

Serb Autonomous Region of North-East Bosnia
1991–1992
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Status	Self-proclaimed entity
Capital	Bijeljina
Government	Provisional government
Historical era	Breakup of Yugoslavia
• Proclamation	19 September 1991
• Proclamation of the Republic of the Serb people of Bosnia and Herzegovina	9 January 1992
Preceded by Succeeded by Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina History of Republika Srpska#1991-1995

SAO North-East Bosnia was a Serb Autonomous Region (Serbian: САО/SAO), a Serb break-away province, in the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SR BiH). It was established in September 1991, proclaimed by the Serb Democratic Party on 19 September, along with other SAOs (Eastern Herzegovina, Bosanska Krajina, Romanija), and included five districts in northeastern SR BiH. It existed between September 1991 and 9 January 1992, when it became part of Republic of the Serb people of Bosnia and Herzegovina (later Republika Srpska). It was renamed SAO Semberija in November 1991, and SAO Semberija and Majevica (САО Семберија и Мајевица) in December 1991. It included three municipalities (Bijeljina, Lopare and Ugljevik), with a population of 150,000, out of whom 56–59% were ethnic Serbs. The capital was Bijeljina.

Sources

• Geert-Hinrich Ahrens (6 March 2007). Diplomacy on the Edge: Containment of Ethnic Conflict and the Minorities Working Group of the Conferences on Yugoslavia. Woodrow Wilson Center Press. pp. 577–. ISBN 978-0-8018-8557-0.
• Nigel Thomas; K Mikulan (20 February 2013). The Yugoslav Wars (2): Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia 1992?2001. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-1-4728-0244-6.
• James Gow (1997). Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. pp. 34–. ISBN 978-1-85065-208-3.

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