Krajina was in the middle ages an integral part of tsarist Serbia, ruled by Serbian tsar Dusan Nemanjic. The European maps of Dusan's Serbia before the Berlin's congress of 1887 include Bosnia & Herzegovina and Krajina.
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Since the Berlin congress, the Serbian history has been adopted/ falsified: the original map of tsarist Serbia has been reduced. The purpose of that was to justify the decentralization of Serbia into smaller states, but also to protect Austro-Hungary's territorial integrity which occupied Serbian territories at that time.
In addition, On the Krajina territories, the Serbs were state-building nation in medieval Serbia, in Hungary since 1471, in Austria in 1630, in Venice in 1627 and in Yugoslavia in 1918. However, the Croatian parliament eliminated the Serbian constituent rights in 1990 and reduced them to a national minority. Following that, the Croatian army and police started to expel the Krajina Serbs from their lands, dynamiting their homes, conducting crimes amongst them, etc.
The autochthony of the Serbs in Krajina has been proved through archeological research. In Dalmatia, Lika and Bosnian Krajina Serbian tombs from the fourth century AD have been found. In that way the hypothesis of the Serbian arrival to the Balkan Peninsula only in the sixth or seventh centuries AD has been denied. The Serbs in Krajina and Croatia are mentioned in old European documents. A chronicler of the Frankish emperor refers to them in Einhard's Chronicles for the years 818 and 822 AD.
Two thirds of the Dalmatian sea-shore were part of medieval Serbia and of Serbian Bosnia. After the Turkish conquest of the Balkans the Krajina Serbs in Austria organized their own organs of local governmentand in 1630 they were given the Serbian Constitution (Statuta Valachorum) by the Austrian emperor. The Serbs had local government and even municipality courts as well as the Supreme Court. In return, they defended the Austrian border against the Turks. Austrian emperor Leopold II gives testimony about the Serbian Krajina, writing in 1790: "As for myself, I maintain that the Serbian people lived in Srem, Slavonia and Bačka even before the war with the Turks, and during the war decidedly took part in the recapture of the same regions, still living there, and this is why the Serbs most rightly claim the possession of these lands".
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