I was interested while reading "Love and Obstacles" in the geography of the story. I did some research and the results are difficult to understand. It seems that former Yugoslavia has been split into several nations including Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. This story takes place mostly in Slovenia, about ten years prior to the Bosnian genocide. The history leading up to the genocide was very complicated. In some ways I saw it as being similar to the situation in Nigeria. Much of the conflict in Nigeria traces from the false borders drew up in the Berlin Conference, which grouped different ethnic groups together in one "nation." This led to power struggles down the road. Maybe it is the same in Yugoslavia. The different territories and ethnic groups were grouped together after the first world war in 1918, and much of the violence and war seemed to be ethnically driven.
http://www.kosovo.net/serhist2.html
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