Subject: Sastavci<br/>
Date: Jun 04, 2004 @ 02:01<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (Brendan Whyte &lt;bwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-181112792"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt;From: &quot;kontikipaul&quot; &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:contikipaul@...">contikipaul@...</a>&gt;<br/>
&gt;Subject: Re: Sastavci (BH enclave in Serbia)<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;As a former UN peacekeeper in Sarajevo for 2 years there were hundreds of <br/>
&gt;&#39;enclaves&#39; littered around former Yugoslavia.  Republika<br/>
&gt;Srpska (serb republic) is an ethnic area of BiH that is in contrast to the <br/>
&gt;rest of Bosnia (Croat and Muslim federation).<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;   The enclave of Croatia that allows Bosnia to have sea access, <br/>
&gt; (Dubrovnik) I thought was the last true, delineated enclave.  Parts<br/>
&gt;of Kosovo now have Serb enclaves that will be part of Serbia and <br/>
&gt;Montenegro sooner or later.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Let me clarify:<br/>
an enclave is a part of one country (or other political unit) **totally** <br/>
surrounded by another. It is not an &#39;ethnic enclave&#39;, nor a part of one <br/>
country surrounded by more than one other country, or a coastal fragment.<br/>
Certainly the enclave of Sastavci is not mentioned by Catudal because<br/>
a) the border in question was internal, not international, until c.1990, and<br/>
b) Sastavci doesn&#39;t appear to have existed as an enclave until 1990 at any <br/>
level. I have Yugoslav maps from the 1940s to 1970s that show Sastavci as <br/>
and integral and connected part of BH.<br/>
<br/>
Thus most of what you describe as &#39;enclaves&#39; are not in fact such because <br/>
they are not political units, they have a coast (ie Dubrovnik), or more <br/>
than one neighbour, etc. They might be popularly termed so in the press, <br/>
but I am using the word enclave in the technical geographical sense.<br/>
<br/>
Several recent maps now show Sastavci as a disconnected part of BH embedded <br/>
in Serbia, ie the Serbians have somehow, somewhen acquired the land between <br/>
Sastavci and the rest of BH, thus enclaving it. The border is not shown as <br/>
in dispute, claimed etc, but as a distinct line. The question of the <br/>
ethnicity of the inhabitants (and whether this differed between pre 1990 & <br/>
currently) is a completely separate issue.<br/>
<br/>
My question is on what basis are these maps showing this boundary: has <br/>
there been some interim/final agreement that has established the enclave? <br/>
If so, what/when (and then why) are these?<br/>
and does the enclave currently still exist, given previous talk of a land <br/>
exchange.</div>