Colleagues,
It has been brought to my attention that a political (not purely an ethnic)
enclave of Bosnia-Hercegovina exists (or existed) in Serbia probably from
the early 1990s, and may still exist although reports earlier this decade
suggested it was about to be removed via an exchange of land.
The enclave is the village of Sastavci, 10km west of Priboj and 10kmn west
of the trijunction of Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia-Hercegovina.
According to WW2 maps in our collection, the BH-Serbian boundary at that
time ran from the trijunction north then east to hit the Lim river a little
south of Rudo in BH, then dropped south from the river to include Sastavci
in BH, turning NE then E to hit the Lim again in the vicinity of the city
of Priboj.
From reports on the war in the early 1990s, it appears Serbians expelled
ethnic Bosnians from this area, including from Sastavci. But maps from 1992
and 1993 (inc "The Times Map of the Western Balkans", 1:1000,000, copyright
Naklada C, Zagreb, 1993) shows the middle E-W section of this land S and W
of the Lim to belong to Serbia, leaving a much smaller rectangular section
immediately south of the Lim to BH, and also leaving the village of
Sastavci to BH, as an enclave.
Can anyone provide further information on this enclave?
Was it in fact created during the conflicts of the early 1990s, or does it
predate the war?
Does it still exist, or was it indeed exchanged or ceded to Serbia in the
last few years?
Does anyone have any detailed maps showing it?
Thank you
Brendan Whyte,
Melbourne
Dr Brendan Whyte
Assistant Map Curator
ERC Library
University of Melbourne
Vic 3010
AUSTRALIA
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