This is the Neum corridor, and it cuts Croatia neatly in two. Dubrovnik gives up land to keep Venice at arm's length. In the Great Turkish War of the late 17th century, the city-state of Dubrovnik ...

When the former Yugoslavia broke up in the early 1990s, Croatia came to dominate the Adriatic Sea with almost 4,000 miles of coastline. Macedonia and Kosovo, meanwhile, have no coastline at all.