Native Name: | |
Conventional Long Name: | Serb Autonomous Region of North-East Bosnia |
Common Name: | SAO North-East Bosnia |
Status: | Unrecognised |
Status Text: | Self-proclaimed entity |
Government Type: | Provisional government |
Era: | Breakup of Yugoslavia |
Event Start: | Proclamation |
Event End: | Proclamation of the Republic of the Serb people of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Life Span: | 1991–1992 |
P1: | Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Flag P1: | Flag of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg |
S1: | Republika Srpska (1991–95) |
Flag S1: | Flag of Republika Srpska.svg |
Flag: | Flag of Republika Srpska |
Capital: | Bijeljina |
Coordinates: | 44.7569°N 19.2161°W |
SAO North-East Bosnia (Serbian: САО Североисточна Босна / SAO Severoistočna Bosna) 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 1991, 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 (Serbian: САО Семберија) in November 1991, and SAO Semberija and Majevica (САО Семберија и Мајевица[1]) in December 1991. It included three municipalities (Bijeljina, Lopare and Ugljevik[2]), with a population of 150,000, out of whom 56–59% were ethnic Serbs. The capital was Bijeljina.