- Sanjak was supported by Turkey, Iraaq,, and Saudi-Arabia
It was a constituent state of the CSDS, but like Bosnia *here* (perhaps
even more so), it was an artificial entity. Sanjak had never been
independent before, and only became a "state" (insofar as the constituent
Soviet Republics making up the CSDS can be considered states) until the
establishment of the CSDS in 1947. And like Bosnia *here*, both Dalmatia,
and to a much greater degree, Serbia, had designs on the territory of
Sanjak. As it stands today, the Dalmatian government *officially*
maintains a policy of peaceful coexistence with the IRS, but secretly they
view Sanjak as a useful thing to have there, as any time new weapons need
to be tested, a little conflict can be fomented...Anyways, Sanjak wouldn't
exist if the war had ended as I said above, because either Dalmatia or
more likely Serbia would have conquered and incorporated Sanjak into
itself. You mentioned also re Slovenia that the world is rather reluctant
to accept new states, and Sanjak would be an even newer state than
Slovenia, since Slovenia did have a year as an independent Principality in
1917...
I can see this also being the case re Sanjak, but pressure from
the Islamic world saved Sanjak
that Sanjak could make it
thanks to strong pressure from the Islamic world, while Slovenia simply missed
a strong ally (not much left with Germany and Austria preferring to cooperate
with Croatia, while France, Spain and the Italies would rather support
Dalmatia).
Well Sanjak, and to a lesser extent, Albania (well, Albanian Muslim
fundamentalists) received military and other aid from several Muslim
states, Turkey probably, and probably others too (but I don't know enough
about the Middle East in IB to say what countries there would have shipped
arms). Sanjak's Islamic Revolution took place 5 May, 1991. One was
attempted shortly thereafter in Albania but it failed, mainly because
Albania is/was already far to secular for such a thing to happen, and also
because there are a large number of Catholics in Albania.
Sandzacki. That is, a South Slavic language. From a linguistic and neutral
point of view we could say it is basically ekavski Serbocroatian with
heavy Turkish influence, and many Arabic loanwords. A lot of the Arabic
loanwords came after the Language Revitalisation Plan of 1992, after the
Islamic Revolution. So in short we can say it's like Bosnian *here*, but
with an even heavier Turkish/Arabic influence. It is written in Arabic
script officially, though Latin is used and acceptable. Cyrillic *could*
be used, but is illegal.
Sanjaki Islamism came as a reflex action to the rising Croat nationalism
in the DC after Broz's death, much like how Islam became important in
Bosnia *here*, as a reaction to rising Serbian nationalism in Yugoslavia.
However, it went a lot further *there* than *here*.
Ahh so, then I misread it. Sorry. Then Iguess it would be sfae to assume
that Saudi Arabia supported Sanjak and to write that into the history
files!
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> Iraaq i'm sure would have supported Sanjak as well, at least until they
> were kicked back out of Kuwayt and the Revolutionary Ecotopic Republic of
> al-Basrah declared its independence. They probably still send Sanjak
> money, even if they don't have enough weaponry to send them anymore.
> Maybe now that the Sanjaki war is ending, Sanjak may send Iraaq back some
> weapons so Iraaq can try and reconquer al-Basrah and Kuwayt. Iraaq is
> more of a greedy dictatorship than a fundamentalist state, though.
I'm not certain whether Sanjak would really be prepared to send weapons
back to Iraaq just yet. Sure the war between the IRS and Dalmatia is over,
but they are still in somewhat of a precarious position. For one, there is
Dalmatia to the west and south who they just finished a long war with.
Then to the north is the Serbian Kingdom, who still has designs on Sanjak,
and vice versa there are still some Muslim minorities withing Serbia that
the IRS would certainly love to liberate from the Serbs. Bulgaria to the
west is not a threat; they have become something of a "Switzerland" since
they left the Danubian Confederation. The Bulgarian Army is mainly a
defensive army, and the Bulgarians, if they have any expansionist ideas at
all, would only really want southern Macedonia and eastern Greece.
However, being a mainly Christian country they have no love for Sanjak,
and they have enough problems with their own Muslim minorities. Attacking
Sanjak would only cause to anger the Bulgarian Muslims. Bulgaria is also
the channel through which Sanjak received its arms, and the government
apparently received some money or oil or some other form of incentive to
not notice the arms smugglers.
Back to the point at hand, if Sanjak sent any aid to Iraaq in a form of
thanks for the weapons, it would probably have been elements of the 1st
"Handzar" Shock Division (the elite air-mobile unit of the Holy Army of
Sanjak) and other "volunteer" mudzahedin (note theres a hachek on the z
there, that is the Sanjaki spelling of mujaheddin) units. It is a known
fact that there were foreign mujaheddin units operating in Sanjak both
during their war of independence and during the recent war with Dalmatia
(by then however they were part of a foreign legion type unit, believed to
be called the Legions of Allah, though that information may not be
accurate). The nationalities of these mujaheddin are not known for
certain. There are probably representatives of every Muslim nation there,
but I would assume the majority were Iraaqis, Saudis and Turks.
