Virovitica-Karlovac-Karlobag line

Greater Serbia as proposed by Serbian Radical Party.

The Karlobag-Ogulin-Karlovac-Virovitica line is a hypothetical boundary often used to describe the western extent of an irredentist nationalist Serbian state.^{[citation needed]} Everything east of this line would form a part of Serbia, while the west of it would be within Slovenia, and all which might remain of Croatia. Such a boundary would give the majority of the territory of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the Serbs.

This line was frequently referenced by Serbian politician Vojislav Šešelj.

Some Serbian nationalists supported the line and a greater Serbian state for national and economical reasons^{[citation needed]}. 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 Socialist Republic of Croatia. Also, it would gather over 98% of Serbs of Yugoslavia in one state. In his speeches and books, Šešelj claimed that all of the population of these areas are in fact ethnic Serbs, of Orthodox, Roman Catholic or Muslim faith. However, outside of Šešelj's Serbian Radical Party the line was never promoted in recent Serbian political life, and in recent years that party has abandoned actively advocating the line, (though it still officially considers it a long-term goal)^{[citation needed]}.

See also

• Greater Serbia
• Stevan Moljević
• Vojislav Šešelj

External links

• http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/serbian_digest/3/t3-1.htm
• http://www.nsf-journal.hr/issues/v3_n3-4/pdf/11-footnotes.pdf
• Evidence from the ICTY trial Case No. IT-94-1-T that details Stevan Moljevic's Greater Serbia plan
• ICTY transcripts of court case discussing the Virovitica-Karlovac-Karlobag line: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
• Vojislave Seselj trial - ICTY information sheet