Curious about the Town of Neum in Bosnia

**Vojnik** · 08-09-2018, 10:00 AM

It's such a small stretch of coastline for Bosnia. Why was only that small stretch of coast given to you? Why didn't Croatia just consume the whole of it. Whats the story behind it?

**TheMaestro** · 08-09-2018, 10:09 AM

Lol, I have never seen this I thought Croatia is totally surrounding Bosnia. I was even laughing at one point, so now I know even Bosnia has access to sea. I would make the city as big as possible.

**Vojnik** · 08-09-2018, 10:15 AM

Yeah. They don't even own those islands, Mljet and Korchula. I've just realised that i've been on those islands before. So close to Neum.

**Vojnik** · 08-09-2018, 02:08 PM

Bump.

Ima li neki Bosanac koji bi mogao da mi kaze?

**Jana** · 08-09-2018, 03:43 PM

It was posession of Dubrovnik Republic sold to Ottoman Empire to avoid Direct Border with arch rival Venice, so it Remained in BiH. Population in region and town is Nearly entirely Croat.

That is pretty much the story.

**Jovan Ovcar** · 08-09-2018, 04:16 PM

Neum belonged to Ragusa before they granted that stretch to Ottomans in order to separate themselves from Venice. With the building of Peljesac bridge it will soon be a dead town, which I'm happy for. Croats fought tooth and nail to get that bridge built there and now they'll pay for it.

**Vojnik** · 08-09-2018, 04:19 PM

Ok thanks guys.

Dobrodosli Jovan Ovcar.

**StormBringer** · 08-09-2018, 07:03 PM

Originally Posted by Jovan Ovcar

Neum belonged to Ragusa before they granted that stretch to Ottomans in order to separate themselves from Venice. With the building of Peljesac bridge it will soon be a dead town, which I'm happy for. Croats fought tooth and nail to get that bridge built there and now they'll pay for it.

I reckon then they'll finally decide to build a decent road to it from Stolac or Čapljina, instead of these goat trails they have now, and the place will live off local people and Bosniak patriots visiting their sea

Obviously it will be a big blow to Neum's economy, I remember sitting in a restaurant in Neum last year, overhearing the manager talking to a foreign tourist.He goes on about how foreign tourists traveling from Dubrovnik to Split and vice versa just pass through, visit his restaurant, eat and drink plenty, leave him good cash and go on their merry way.Whereas the locals sit for three hours drinking coffee

He closed off his monologue saying how once the bridge is built, he will move to Zagreb, to a restaurant he opened there.

**Jovan Ovcar** · 08-09-2018, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by StormBringer

I reckon then they'll finally decide to build a decent road to it from Stolac or Čapljina, instead of these goat trails they have now, and the place will live off local people and Bosniak patriots visiting their sea

Obviously it will be a big blow to Neum's economy, I remember sitting in a restaurant in Neum last year, overhearing the manager talking to a foreign tourist.He goes on about how foreign tourists traveling from Dubrovnik to Split and vice versa just pass through, visit his restaurant, eat and drink plenty, leave him good cash and go on their merry way.Whereas the locals sit for three hours drinking coffee

He closed off his monologue saying how once the bridge is built, he will move to Zagreb, to a restaurant he opened there.

1. The road won't be built. It's against Bosniak interest. Croats can enjoy their bridge and products of it. And neither will we come as tourists. Neum will become a cesspool thanks to the disrupted currents which will no longer clear the bay and due to all the illegal objects built that dump sewage into the sea directly. No one will want to visit, and with the bridge no one will have a reason either. Talk about self destruction.

2. Just like many other Croats, they'll move, sell their objects for cheap and abandon city. In 30 years or so it may become a port and an industrial city with Bosniak majority.