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Croatia has always been something of a frontierland: straddling the line between the Western Roman and Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empires and the line between the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires; and, more recently, as part of Yugoslavia, lying as a buffer between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
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Everett-Heath, J. (2000). Croatia. In: Place Names of the World - Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286733_7
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