• Microw@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    The Republic of Ragusa/Dubrovnik ceded this strip of land (Neum corridor) to the Ottomans in 1699 in order to prevent Venice from taking it.

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      Actually, in order to not have a land border with Venice. They hated them so much.