Dubrovnik Republic (1991)

The Dubrovnik Republic () was a Serb proto-state during the Siege of Dubrovnik in the Croatian War of Independence. It was self proclaimed by the Yugoslav People's Army on 15 October 1991, in occupied areas of Croatia, after being captured by members of 2nd Corps of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA).Nigel Thomas, Krunoslav Mikulan, Darko Pavlović. The Yugoslav Wars (1): Slovenia & Croatia 1991-95, Volume 1. p. 54. Its provisional president was Aleksandar Aco Apolonio. 
Background
The territory did not correspond to the pre-1808 Republic of Ragusa borders, stretching from Neum (Bosnia and Herzegovina's only coastal town) to Prevlaka (on Croatia's maritime border with Montenegro).Anton Zabkar. The Drama in Former Yugoslavia: The Beginning of the End Or the End of the Beginning? DIANE Publishing, 1995 p. 75. They only existed in the occupied villages Cavtat and Konavle.Kako je prije 25 godina propao pokušaj uspostavljanja Dubrovačke Republike Aca Apolonija, dubrovniknet.hr The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) during the trial of Serbian President Slobodan Milošević, identified the Dubrovnik Republic as being part of several regions in Croatia that  Milošević sought to be incorporated into a "Serb-dominated state".http://www.icty.org/x/cases/slobodan_milosevic/ind/en/040727.pdf (pages 2 to 3 of the original fax print) The ICTY said that the JNA's campaign in the Dubrovnik region was aimed at securing territory for this entity.
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