Subject: Sastavci<br/>
Date: Jun 02, 2004 @ 23:30<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (Brendan Whyte &lt;bwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1218223197"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt; So, does it still exist, and when was it formed? Certainly post WW2....<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Some Serbian articles on the enclave mention that the situation is a relic <br/>
&gt;from the time it was the ATTR border.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I do not believe this without further evidence (I am not aware of any <br/>
mention of such an enclave in Hertslett&#39;s opus &quot;The Map of Europe by <br/>
Treaty&quot; for example (which details the Balkans in the 19th and early 20th <br/>
centuries very well), as the evidence I have of WW2 era and later maps <br/>
shows no enclave until the early 1990s.<br/>
Which together with reports on the war of the time of Serbs expelling <br/>
Bosnians from border areas including Sastavci and surrounding villages <br/>
leads me to suspect that Serbs forced out ethnic Bosnians from the villages <br/>
in the small part of BH that fell south and west of the Lim river, west of <br/>
Priboj, to create a more &#39;natural&#39; boundary.<br/>
Somehow  BH managed to retain/regain the one village of Sastavci as an <br/>
enclave (though it lost the surrounding lands south and west of the Lim) <br/>
and it MAY have been swapped with Serbia since then for land somewhere else.<br/>
<br/>
Brendan</div>