SAO North-East Bosnia

Serb Autonomous Region of North-East Bosnia Српска аутономна област Североисточна Босна (Serbian) Srpska autonomna oblast Severoistočna Bosna (Serbian)
1991–1992
Flag Coat of arms
Status	Self-proclaimed entity
Capital	Bijeljina 44°45′25″N 19°12′58″E
Government	Provisional government
• Ruling party	Serb Democratic Party (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Historical era	Breakup of Yugoslavia
• Proclamation	19 September 1991 (1991-09-19)
• Proclamation of the Republic of the Serb people of Bosnia and Herzegovina	2 January 1992 (1992-01-02)
Preceded by Succeeded by Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Republika Srpska (1991–95)

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 Cyrillic: САО Семберија) 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

• Ahrens, Geert-Hinrich (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.
• Gow, James (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.
• Thomas, Nigel; Mikulan, K (20 February 2013). The Yugoslav Wars (2): Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia 1992?2001. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-1-4728-0244-6.

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