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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 …

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If you think my oversimplified abbreviated summary of Balkan history provided some degree of clarity about the region, prepare to be tossed back into a whirlpool of chaos because today we’re starting our journey to the triangular shaped country of …

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A lunchtime lesson to solve a currency puzzle. Those of you with sharp attention and memory might recall that the currency used in Montenegro is the euro. Some might have wondered how that could be since Montenegro is not a member …