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Introduction

Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian War, conflict from 1991 to 1995 that represented a clash of states amid the dissolution of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). One state, Serbia, attempted to create the borders of a new federal state for Serbs, which was intended to incorporate territory taken from two of the others, Bosnia (see Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Croatia, where there were large ethnic Serb communities. This state project was countered by the two states from which Serbia sought to carve territory, both of which, along with two other states (Slovenia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) sought to maintain their territorial integrity and to establish their independence (although Croatia, with territory under Serb control, also made an attempt to seize territory from Bosnia in the course of the conflict).