Herzegovina

You see evidence in Podrinje, which is in the east.

You see evidence in Hercegovine, which is in the south.

And you have evidence in central Bosnia of rape and centers.

I mean, case in point, there's one near Sarajevo.

I see, said Rapley.

Though the plain fact is that ever since the Herzegovinian imbroglio, the ball plats is little more than a counterpoise to the Wilhelmstrasse.

Ah, said Rapley.

Indeed, as everybody knows, the whole relationship of the ball plats with the Nevsky Prospect has emanated from the Wilhelmstrasse.

I think that maybe some figures in Orthodox Church in Bosnia or in Croatia or in these parts that are not totally under state control of Serbia do have chance to do something.

There was one episcop called Grigorije who was active in Hercegovina.

He was really well educated, young, good looking man, which is really good for media, you know.

He was very, very popular and somehow he ended up in Düsseldorf.

the vital trading cities of southern Dalmatia too were left without support and taken by Nemanja, including Kotor and Bar.

Meanwhile, in the northwest, additional campaigns were taken by Nemanja's brother Miroslav and Hum, roughly corresponding to Herzegovina to the south of Bosnia.

In this wider region, the structure and culture remained highly archaic, with large extended family units, led by the elder male, tied in loose correspondence to a local ban, or governor, at this time of local origin.

Hum, in particular, saw a growing Serbian influence, and also happened to be more tied in to the growing mercantile culture of Dalmatia, with local Vlach herders growing wealthy from ferrying trade from the Adriatic inland to Serbia and Constantinople.

The other day, I stopped by the restaurant Romanca just outside the city and saw the stalls from the Herzolovest being packed away.

I'm told that was the first edition of that festival, Zlatna Kopi Herzgovani, the golden drops of Herzegovina.

I managed to taste a little of the local oil, and it was unlike anything I've had before, grassy and peppery and bright.

I bought a small bottle to take home with me.

Herzegovina's olive oil is something that deserves to be more famous than it is.

But I also couldn't shake the bigger picture.

The Neretva is low this year, lower than it should be in August.

First of all, the Russians are taking it out of context because the Russians are not talking about that base.

The Russians are defining Herzegovina in test and test and the issue of open windows.

So I don't really know what the Russians would say to your question, but in theory, that could be the floor with this issue that will force us in Sunday, Monday to build a new frontier.

I say, look, you know, so just work there and don't be so finicky.

I don't know.

Bosnia or Herzegovina or Czech Republic or something.

I'm terrible at remembering these things these days.

But a guy scores the very last minute, and then they call it back.

So I, I, I was...

When they, you know, beat Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Is it Herzegovina or Vogina? It was like we beat two countries, so good for us.

And everyone singing "Country Roads," I mean, that's a, that was a moment.

I was-