Dear Len
Great map.
Will you tell where you got the map from and the scale?
Jesper
----- Original Message -----
From: "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:44 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Vennbahn in Yugoslavia
> When the US Forces drew maps on computers a few years ago to outline
> the borders between Croatia and divided Bosnia into it's two ethnic
> parts, details of what it did to a rail line between Croatia and
> Bosnia has left what may be similar to the Vennbahn or a combination
> of the situations in Kleinwalsertal & at the Vennbahn.
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> I posted a map in the photos section, and an enlargened version at
> http://exclave.info/anomalies/yugo-vennbahn.jpg
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> The route takes the train as follows:
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> Strmica (Croatia) (customs)
> Drenovac (Bosnia)
> Tiskorac, Kaldrma & Dugopolje (Croatia) (customs)
> Radenovici (Bosnia) (cut off except by road from Croatia)
> Beghiji (Croatia) locale w/o train station
> Veliki & Martin-Brod (Bosnia)
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> NW of Veliki, the rails stay in Bosnian side for a few kilometers,
> passes into Croatia NW of Klisa (another Bosnian place accessible by
> road only from Croatia) and runs on the Croatian side of the Una river
> for another few km, returning for good to Bosnia just north of
> Zeljezno-Polje.
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> Curious is that between Strmica and Kaldrma customs points, there are
> is a Bosnian and Croat stations, and after the northern customs point
> at Kaldrma, when one rides back into Croatia, there are still a couple
> of Bosnian stations, Radenovici & Nr Veliki, that have a Croatian
> station between them). After Bosnian-Veliki, the train returns to
> Croatia.
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> Such a situation leaves at least two customs free zones or some other
> weird sovereignty-compromising arrangements in this area as
> unavoidable.
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> Note also the very odd bird's beak border routing at Donji-Tiskovac -
> the "corridor" looks like it's a coupel of kilometers long and perhaps
> no more than 50 meters wide, perhaps encompasesing nothing more than a
> stream from Croatia that supplied water to the Bosnian village below.
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> Enjoy!
>
> Len Nadybal
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