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You might think I got a bit carried away in the previous entries but making sense of B&H is akin to sweeping up all the tiny shards from the crystal wineglass you just dropped. Just when you think you’ve got …

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Shaping Bosnia – 1991-1995. Let’s recap some of what we know to prepare for the discussion of the 1991-1995 wars. After World War II, Tito controlled the republics with a strong personality (aided by a strong internal security force). With …

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In tracing the history behind the odd 20-kilometer wide strip of land that’s part of Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) and two Croatian counties, I ended the previous post when the 1878 Treaty of Berlin gave Vienna control of all of …