I hired a tv series with a Danish guy travelling from Denmark to
Romania on the European waterways. He visited some tripoints, but they only
showed HRHUYU. The local guide said the eastern Danube bank just inside
Yuguslavia was nomans land, he could very well be true.
Jesper
I think it depends on who's doing the mapping, and when.
Biger
describes the border as being mainly along the Danube, but with
some
deviations. "The northern sector of the boundary was settled in
1945 as a
boundary line between Yugoslavia's Croatian and Serb
republics. Delimitation
was carried out on the basis of an opinion
provided by a special federal
boundary commission (the Dilas'
Commission, named after its chairman) The
region of Baranya, on the
right bank of the Danube, was allotted to Croatia
on the grounds of
possessing a larger Croatian community. Other deviations
from the
current riverbed of the Danube date back to the old municipal
limits
in the area."
But: "Since autumn 1991 the Croatian region of
Baranya, as well as
most of the Slovenian borderland along the Danube, have,
in effect
been under Serb occupation and the Serbs consider it part of
the
self-proclaimed Serbian Republic of Krajina. In March 1992 these
areas
came under international control as Sector East of the United
Nations
Protected Areas within Croatia. Despite the presence of
peacekeepers
and repeated UN Security Council resolutions ... there have been
no
moves toward reintegration of the areas into Croatia."
Since Biger
wrote, the population of Krajina have voted to stay in
Serbia, and then been
re-occupied by Croatia.
I can see why the map-makers have a
problem.
Grant