![]() ![]() ![]() It used to take many long and uncomfortable hours in a bus, car, or train to journey between the deep interior of Croatia and the coast. Yet, as in the case of Italy, where geography tells different stories depending on the age of technology under consideration, geography and geopolitics in Croatia are now actually quite different than during the 1990s war. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia also had the effect of further pulling political and economic power inland. ![]() With this, Zagreb, the nexus of old Slavonia, deep in the interior, emerged as the Croat capital. The late Croatian historian and emeritus professor at Yale Ivo Banac writes that the “nucleus” of medieval Croatia was the Adriatic seaboard, but the Venetian expansion south along the Adriatic, coupled with the Ottoman conquest of adjacent Bosnia, “occasioned the slow migration of Croat nobility toward the north and effected a lasting change in the political map of Croatia,” distancing it from its Adriatic roots. ![]()
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