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[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 94 points 2 months ago

Bosnia does have a 12 mile coastline

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 201 points 2 months ago

The reason it exists is so bizarre too. It stems from the rivalry between the republics of Venice and Ragusea (modern day Dubrovnik). Venice was gradually asserting control over more and more of the Adriatic coastline and Ragusea didn't much fancy sharing a land border with its rival, so it just gave up one tiny stretch of land each to its north and south to the Ottoman Empire. Venice would therefore have to come by sea or risk angering the Ottomans. Eventually Austria manages to annex the Dalmatian territory of both Venice and Ragusea, but the Ottomans still held those two tiny strips of land. The Ottomans were not typically on the best of terms with Austria, and they held on to the two tiny bits of Adriatic coast up until the treaty of Berlin in 1879. By this point, Neum (the Bosnian one) had been part of Ottoman Bosnia for 179 years, so the borders were pretty damn entrenched, and they survived through the shifts to Austrian, Yugoslav, and eventually independent Bosnian-Herzegovinan political structures. So a petty but clever move of hiding behind a bigger empire in the 1600s created the tiny bit of Bosnian coastline today.

[-] sznowicki@lemmy.world 73 points 2 months ago

This is the Lemmy we all fighting for!

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Mah boi! Peace is what all true warriors strive for.

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 11 points 2 months ago

I half expected this comment to end with "in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table"

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

But it has to share it with Herzegovina, so more like 6 miles for Bosnia and 6 miles for Herzegovina

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 16 points 2 months ago

That's in Newtonian cartography. In quantum cartography, all 12 miles are in superposition.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

In Gaussian Cartography nobody knows which coastline is which.

[-] theilleists@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

In Aristotelian geography, the coastline is infinitely divisible.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

Neum is actually in Herzegovina but whatever. It's inside a bay that Croatia controls from both sides, and in fact has a bridge over. If B&H got naughty again, they could turn it into a lake just by dumping enough clay from the bridge.

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