"Verdis": the Illusion of Statehood at the Heart of the Serbian-Croatian Border Dispute

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In the region known as “pocket three”, located on the banks of the Danube between Serbia and Croatia, an unusual initiative has emerged: in 2019, a twenty-year-old Briton, Daniel Jackson, declared the establishment of the so-called Free Republic of Verdis – a self-proclaimed “state” on no-man’s land, as some media outlets call it, covering less than 50 hectares.

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A 20-year-old youth has found an unpredictable land face between Croatia and Serbia, on the small Danube, and decided to create his own country. The new "Republic" has a government, rank, currency, citizens and even a president.

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A man was self-proclaimed as president of an invented country - located on a ground floor on the ground floor of the Danube, debated by Croatia and Serbia - which has a rank, government, currency and nearly 400...