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	Knin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Knin is a historical town in the Šibenik-Knin county of Croatia, located near the source of the river Krka at 44°02′18″N, 16°11′59″E, in the Dalmatian hinterland, on the railroad Zagreb–Split.
		In the 2001 census, the population of Knin was 11,128 in the city and 15,190 in the municipality, and the majority of its citizens were Croats with 76.45% and Serbs with 20.8%.
		Knin is mentioned in the 10th century in the history of Constantine Porphyrogenitus as a center of parish.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Knin (892 words)

	Knin, Croatia
		Knin is a historical town in the Šibenik-Knin county of Croatia, with a population of 11,128 in the city and 15,190 in the municipality (2001), at 44° 02′ 18″ N 16° 11′ 59″ E.
		Town of Knin is mentioned in 10th century in history of Constantine Porphyrogenitus as a center of parish.
		Knin passed on to the Habsburgs together with Dalmatia in 1797, and briefly to the Illyrian Provinces of France.
	creekin.net /c2933-n48-knin-croatia.html (509 words)

	Knin (Sibenik-Knin, Croatia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Knin is a city in the ibenik-Knin County situated in the hinterland some 60 km northeast of ibenik.
		Knin was a community in Zadar-Knin County (Županija Zadarsko-kninska), until 1997 when it gained status of a city and included in the (since then called) ibenik-Knin County.
		The Coat of Arms of Knin is: Azure a lamb passant argent holding a cross-staff or an in the canton Zvonimir's crown or with stones gules.
	www.fotw.net /flags/hr-si-kn.html (293 words)

	Knin \| Croatia > Adriatic > Dalmatia > Sibenik-Knin County
		Knin is situated 55km northeast from > The oldest Croatian town on the Adriatic which is unique because of its extraordinary location in a...">Sibenik to which it is connected by the road that connect Dalmatia with its hinterland.
		Knin was the capital of the Croatian kings and it reached its prosperity during the reign of the King Zvonimir, between 1074 and 1088 and that's why the town is often called Zvonimir's town.
		Knin was not spared in recent Homeland War, too as it became the centre of the rebels against the Croatian Republic.
	www.infoadriatic.com /knin/index.shtml (916 words)

	Creation of a Greater Serbia - The Knin Area
		The elevation of Knin to the status of a "krajina metropolis" was the breaking point of the greater Serbian strategy, perpetrated by people who overnight became self-styled ministers and premiers.
		The two villages, just outside the town of Knin, and Kijevo, which is further from town, are principal Croatian oases in the area and represent a stumbling block to the power-wielders in "krajina".
		The exodus from Knin was simply a prelude to a more massive flight of civilians from other areas of Croatia, who by then had not yet realized they would follow the same trend in months to come.
	www.hic.hr /books/creation/part-06.htm (698 words)

	Rivieras Inland Knin Dalmatia .INFO - Croatia, Dalmatia travel and tourism hub ★ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Knin is a town in the ibenik-Knin county of Croatia, population 15,190 (2001).
		Knin is a town of some historical importance to Croatia as it was the seat of one of the first native bishoprics since 1040 and briefly the capital of the medieval Croatian state around 1080 during the rule of king Zvonimir.
		In the beginning of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, Knin became the main stronghold of rebel Serbs and eventually the capital of the Republic of Serbian Krajina.
	www.dalmatia.info /Rivieres/Inland/Knin.html (235 words)

	The Centre For Peace In The Balkans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The 1995 Croat attack on Knin was part of a campaign that eventually forced 200,000 Croatian Serbs in the country from their homes.
		Although the town of Knin was not a military target, it was strategically important, Gen. Forand testified.
		"Knin had strategic value [for] it was the city where the parliament of the Krajina Serbs was located," testified Gen. Forand, who was in the town as commander of the UN's Sector South for Croatia.
	www.balkanpeace.org /cib/cro/cro03.html (935 words)

	newStandard: Saturday, August 5, 1995
		The Navy EA-6B Prowler fired on a surface-to-air missile radar unit near the Serb stronghold of Knin, Croatia, according to NATO officials in the region.
		When their equipment indicated that they had been "painted" by Serb radar, a sign that an antiaircraft missile might be on the way, one of the planes fired a radar-homing HARM missile.
		Knin shook under an artillery barrage that began at dawn and continued all day.
	www.s-t.com /daily/08-95/08-05-95/0805APserbattack.HTML (793 words)

	Articles written by Daniel Pearl -- 22 April 1999
		Krajina Serbs broke into armed rebellion in 1991 as Yugoslavia collapsed, and Knin, with its ancient hilltop fortress, became the capital of the Republic of Serbian Krajina.
		Knin's Serbs had just minutes to pack on Aug. 5, 1995, when their army warned them to leave.
		Knin officials say Croatia's plan doesn't require them to evict people if no other homes are ready.
	www.geocities.com /spyjaguar/22499.html (2100 words)

	Apartments - Villa Raste \| Riviera Sibenik
		The Sibenik - Knin county assesses a surface of 2939 km2, with 5 towns: Sibenik, Drnis, Knin, Skradin and Vodice, 12 municipalities and 194 settlements and has according to the national census from 1991 a total of 152.125 inhabitants.
		The area covered by the county borders is physically divided into two parts by the canyon cut deep into the country side by the rivers Krka and Cikola and by the Prukljansko lake and the Sibenik sea channel.
		It is connected by the Adriatic coast road with the coastal region and by a main road with Knin and the inland of Croatia.
	www.villa-raste.com /index.php?riviere_sibenik (376 words)

	CNN.com - Bodies found at suspected war grave - April 24, 2001
		KNIN, Croatia -- Forensic teams excavating a suspected mass grave have unearthed at least six bodies from a site believed to contain the remains of hundreds of ethnic Serbs.
		Knin was the hotbed of rebel Serbs' attempts to prevent Croatia's independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.
		Croatia claims none of those buried in Knin were victims of war crimes but "collateral casualties," interred according to international conventions.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/04/24/croatia.dig (551 words)

	The Little Lighthouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A lot of cities had really cook scenes, and the city of Knin was one of the most interesting.
		Knin was a multinational city and as everything else that was multinational in the former country it was about to be destroyed.
		Through the years they kept recordings of their old favorite local highschool bands from Knin as some sacred religious scriptures and now they put them all together giving the final strike against the supidity of war with the fistful of rock'n'roll music.
	www.math.lsu.edu /~zabic/lighthouse/knin.htm (680 words)

	MTGL -- From previous issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When he and his elderly parents were driven from their home near Knin in the heart of the Croatian Krajina in the summer of 1995, his forced journey took him first to Bosnian Serb territory, then to Serbia and finally back to Knin.
		Today, there is only a handful of the former residents of Knin left, and Drago finds himself a stranger in a city now populated mostly by the Croatian military mixed with Bosnian Croatian refugees and the staff of various refugee agencies.
		Knin is not what it used to be, as far as I am concerned....We have to understand that things will not return to the way they used to be....My greatest fear is the future.
	www.hamline.edu /world/backissues/backissue4.html (974 words)

	The FAME: Sibenik and Knin County - Cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1997 the communities of Skradina and Vodice were given city status, as well as Knin that was removed from Zadar and Knin County at the same time.
		Knin was a community in Zadar and Knin County, until 1997 when it gained status of a city and included in (since then called) Sibenik and Knin County.
		The coat of arms used by Knin in last half of the 20th century is a lamb passant in blue shield on green base, this being the simplification of the traditional coat of arms from which are removed religious symbols.
	jagor.srce.hr /fame/descr/hr-si1.html (519 words)

	Sibenik-Knin County (Croatia)
		The crown of Zvonimir is called this design, based on the representation of the crown on the head of Croatian king found on the old Croatian engraving on a baptistery in early romanic style of XI century.
		The Coat of Arms of Sibenik-Knin county seems to be red shield with the "crown of Tomislav" and sword, and I am not aware of the crown element above.
		Long time ago I have reported, and several times latter, but very rarely seen it again, a flag that was supposed to be the flag of the county (even possibly when it was still called "only" Sibenska before 1997).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/hr-si.html (849 words)

	Rezultat1 - opis muzeja
		A museum in Knin was again founded in 1973, and housed in the Old Town Fortress, one of the largest and most valuable monuments of its kind in Dalmatia.
		The archives from the Knin Franciscan monastery and parts of the archaeological collection from Plitvice were also stored in the museum.
		Because of the complete lack of organisation and the lack of documentation prior to the war, as well as the missing inventory numbers on the holdings that were found, professional workers at the museum are encountering problems with the revision of museum collections.
	www.mdc.hr /RatneStete/eng/rezultat1.asp?g=&m=17 (801 words)

	Messages from The ConferenceAugust.20.1995.12.30.06 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The road to Knin is dotted with small villages, none of which is untouched by burning or looting.
		Pupovac represents the `refugees from the camp of sector south in Knin' and reported on the mood and future of the refugees.
		A doctor from the Knin hospital, now a refugee, said that during the first 2 days the Croatian Army consisted of professionals who behaved correctly towards the population and their belongings.
	mediafilter.org /sj/Conf/0895/August.20.1995.12.30.06 (1215 words)

	Milan Babic - Factual Statement
		In the multi-party elections held in Croatia in April and May of 1990, Milan BABIC was elected President of the Knin municipality.
		On 6 July 1990, Milan BABIC convened a meeting of the Association and of all municipalities in Croatia with a Serb majority to consider proposed changes to the Croatian Constitution which were perceived as counter to the interest of those with a Serbian identity.
		On 18 March 1991, Milan BABIC endorsed, in his capacity as President of the Knin Municipal Assembly, a decision of the Assembly "completely and permanently" separating the Knin Municipality from the Republic of Croatia.
	www.un.org /icty/babic/trialc/plea_fact.htm (3779 words)

	Fifth periodic report on the situation of human rights in the territory of the former Yugoslavia submitted by Mr. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Knin authorities, however, have reacted to some complaints and have arrested and detained suspects in the murder of four Croats from Podlapaca.
		In the areas of Sector West under the control of the Knin authorities, there are approximately 35,000 to 40,000 inhabitants, of whom 500 are ethnic Croats.
		On 21 September 1993, two former high-ranking members of the Knin authorities were accused of cooperation with Croats and arrested because of their participation in a social reconstruction project co-sponsored by UNOV/UNDP and a non-governmental organization.
	www.unhchr.ch /Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/2848af408d01ec0ac1256609004e770b/5793c2d636a30ac9802566710057034c?OpenDocument (8775 words)

	The Guardian: Tudjman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Il Duce has been waiting a long time for the apotheosis marked by the fall of Knin, doing two terms in communist jails for his unremitting nationalism, and spending the past four years licking his wounds and building his army after the military disasters of 1991.
		But for a president who talks millenia, not months or years, and is obsessed with posterity's verdict, the co nquest of Knin, where medieval Croatian kings once sat and from where the Serb rebels crippled and partitioned his country, is an orgasmic victory.
		For the Serbs of Krajina, the old frontier area that historically marked the divide between Christian Europe and the sway of the Sublime Porte, the fall of Knin, the Krajina capital, may prefigure the end of their 400-year-old presence in these parts.
	www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosta/ndh/ndh-ildceofbalkans-guardian2.html (1601 words)

	KNIN TV 9 - TV station in Boise, Idaho USA covering Boise general entertainment at Mondo Times
		KNIN TV 9 is a TV station in Boise, Idaho, USA covering general entertainment.
		KNIN TV 9 is an affiliate of the UPN television network.
		KNIN TV 9 contact information is available to Mondo Times Advanced and Professional Members.
	www.mondotimes.com /1/world/us/12/695/13448 (123 words)

	CNN Balkan Conflict: Knin captured (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		KNIN, Croatia (CNN)-- The Croatian army has accomplished in 36 hours what political pressure failed to do for four years: return the city of Knin to Croat control.
		It was after a meeting broke up that the battle front reports of the fall of the Knin reached the capital.
		A NATO spokesman said the jets, which were on patrol for the United Nations, destroyed the site after having been detected by radar at a Croatian Serb ground-to-air missle base in the Croation Serb area of Krajina.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/Bosnia/updates/august95/8-05 (449 words)

	Croatian President Franjo Tudjman's Speech on "Freedom Train" Journey after Driving 250,00 Serbian ...
		As long as they the Serbs were in Knin, as long as Knin was under occupation, the future of the Croatian state was not assured.
		Knin, which - as I have said - was the capital of Croatia until 1522, Knin in which, until - despite the fact that the remaining population was given some sort of concessions from Turkish, Austrian and Hungarian times, and they multiplied.
		Here in Knin they Serbs were creating their own Serb state in order to unify it with those Bosnian Serbs and Serbia proper and their Yugoslavia.
	emperors-clothes.com /docs/tudj.htm (942 words)

	The FAME: Sibenik and Knin County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The hinterland of Sibenik coastal area, the region around Knin was the core of medieval Croatian kingdom, that is indicated in the coat of arms with the crown of that period.
		In north of Dalmatia, most part of the current County of Sibenik and Knin was occupied in 1991.
		Larger part of those was until 1997 included in the County of Zadar and Knin (now County of Zadar), as it was part of District (Kotar) of Knin.
	jagor.srce.hr /fame/descr/hr-si.html (294 words)

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