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The Sphinx at Split  
   

The Sphinx at Split

A courtyard inside the Diocletian Palace. One of the decorations is a Sphinx brought from Egypt when the palace was built nearly 2000 years ago. The Sphinx itself is no doubt much older than that.
Croatia and Sicily

April 15th 2005
After leaving Venice, we cruised across the top of Italy’s boot to what used to be Yugoslavia, which is now split into several small countries -- Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, etc. (“the Balkans”). Croatia is a little country of five million that grabbed most of the lovely coastline on the Adriatic Sea away from the other Balkan countries. Its majority ethnic group is Roman Cath ... read more
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Croatian Flag The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia became a feder... ... read more
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