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Croatia is wrong, should be "Tesla is a serb". Tito is controversial at most.
 
They have Neum. I had the worst Vienna schnitzel of my life there, the meat was in the fridge since the Van Basten era. They also nonchalantly devastate the coast via date shell extraction which is banned in Croatia, you need to pluck out a cubic square of natural rock to get just 1kg. Also you need to drive out of Croatia and EU for that matter twice just to make a round trip from any city in Croatia to Dubrovnik. Fuck that part of the coast.
 
Black Wizard said:
How did that part of the coast end up in Croatia then?
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Neum is in Bosnia. Let's try simple and from start :) There is this in the middle ages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmatian_city-states

The hinterland behind and between these was always contested, first by medieval balkan kingdoms, Franks, Byzantines, etc. And later by Venice and Ottoman Empire. Ottomans at their greatest extent held a lot of it, together with parts of Adriatic coast between those established cities. The cities themselves lost the free city status and got permanently taken by Venice in early 15th century. Apart from Dubrovnik. So in 1684 Venice went to

The Morean War (Italian: Guerra di Morea) is the better-known name for the Sixth Ottoman–Venetian War. The war was fought between 1684–1699, as part of the wider conflict known as the "Great Turkish War", between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. Military operations ranged from Dalmatia to the Aegean Sea, but the war's major campaign was the Venetian conquest of the Morea (Peloponnese) peninsula in southern Greece.
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Venice won, reclaiming territories and setting the historical Dalmatia/Bosnia border. And this was part the aftermath;

The Neum corridor dates back to the Treaty of Sremski Karlovci of 1699, whereby the Republic of Ragusa was separated from the Dalmatian possessions of its rival Venice by two buffer zones ceded by Venice to the Ottoman empire: north of its territory Neum and the bay of Klek, and south of its territory Sutorina with the port of Herceg-Novi on the Bay of Kotor, now part of Montenegro since 1947
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Since Dubrovnik was Ottoman vassal for 200 yrs at that moment they made a bit of a buffer.

Austria tried to buy Neum area but failed, eventually Neum fell into same realm as the rest of the coast around it when Austria annexed Bosnia. But it was still a part of Bosnia. When royal Yugoslavia came, they didn't care about historical agreements and handled Neum area like any other county. Socialist Yugoslavia brought back the historical stuff and that's the current situation.
 
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