Krajina

Krajina (pronounced [krâjina]) is a Slavic toponym, meaning 'frontier' or 'march'. The term is related with kraj or krai, originally meaning "edge" and today denoting a region or province, usually distant from the metropole.

The Serbo-Croatian word krajina derives from Proto-Slavic *krajina, derived from *krajь, meaning "edge", related to *krojiti, "to cut"; the original meaning of krajina thus seems to have been "place at an edge, fringe, borderland", as reflected in the meanings of Church Slavonic краина, kraina, and Old East Slavic окраина, okraina.

In some South Slavic languages, including Serbo-Croatian and Slovene, the word krajina or its cognate still refers primarily to a border, , or borderland of a country (sometimes with an established military defense), and secondarily to a region, area, or landscape. The word kraj can today mean an end or extremity, or region or area. Archaically extrapolated, it could mean "army" or "war"; this meaning developed from the earlier meaning of "borderland" in a manner analogous to the French word campagne. The term is equal to German Mark and French marche.

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