I am a bit bothered by how the modern borders of Croatia seem like they are designed just to prevent Bosnia and Hercegovina from having a coast. I get that you can have a thin country, but they are really pushing it. Give them one beach!

[–] ReeferPirate@lemy.lol 7 points 10 months ago

They have Neum

[–] lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

They have one beach! Let them have 2.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

croatia was already funny shaped when it was in personal union with the kingdom of hungary. that's the upper half of modern croatia. most of the lower thin bit was dalmatia, which was also historically inhabited by croats and unified with (a newly independent) croatia immediately after ww1.

so while yeah, it looks like the west meddled to deny serbia access to the sea, i dunno how true that is. the region really was mostly croats and some italians, i think...

i could much more easily believe that montenegro was the result of such meddling