🇧🇬🇷🇺🇨🇾🇱🇧 - Bulgarian Border Police arrested Igor Grechushkin, a dual Russian-Cypriot citizen wanted in Lebanon in connection with the vessel that carried the cargo of ammonium nitrate at the center of the 2020 Beirut Port explosion that killed 218 people, based on an Interpol red notice.

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🇭🇷 Croatia Sees Surge in Foreign Investment

Despite a global decline in foreign direct investment, Croatia has bucked the trend, with total inflows reaching €54 billion. Last year alone, foreign investment rose by 40%, amounting to €4.3 billion. The growth is largely attributed to "sustainable" and "green" projects, including a notable €80 million investment through a partnership between Croatian company Končar and Siemens Energy.

The construction sector also continues to grow, with both public and private works increasing by 33%.

Investment from Austria, Luxembourg, and Germany is contributing to Croatia’s economic momentum.

🇦🇱 Albania will officially recognize more than two genders.

According to the new law on "gender equality," gender is "inclusive" and anyone can declare the gender they want.

The draft law, supported by the government, has been submitted to parliament, where the ruling Socialist Party has a majority.

🇬🇷🇨🇳 - 2435 Chinese ship containers filled with smuggled electronics and clothes identified and confiscated in the Greek port of Piraeus - largest operation of this kind in the EU's history.

🇺🇸 🇭🇺 The United States lifts visa restrictions for Hungarian citizens, imposed by the previous American administration. Hungarians can now benefit from the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) — the U.S. Embassy in Budapest announced on Tuesday.

—There's one Historian in the channel (you know who you are), I'm definitely waiting for your comment on this!

It was never part of Croatia.

It does have a considerable amount of Christians living in the city and many of them identify as Bosnian Croat.

Many lives were lost during the war. The center of town has a plaque commemorating both Catholic and Muslim lives lost.

Very beautiful city. Never a part of Croatia.

History of Jajce:

Illyrian Tribes (Pre-Roman)

Roman Empire (1st-5th Century CE)

Bosnian Kings: Tvrtko I (1377-1391), Tvrtko II (1404-1418), Stjepan Tomaš (1443-1461)

Ottoman Pashas (1463-1878)

Austro-Hungarian Administration (1878-1918)

Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1941)

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945-1992, under Tito and later governments)

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Post-War) (1995-present)

The timeframe some ignorant people have called into question is the 9th - 10th Century from which the Kingdom of Croatia arose. The preceding periods were still considered Slavic migrations and the Kingdom of Croatia did not exist, yet.

Despite the areas around Jajce containing Catholic style churches and Croatian influence -- there is no direct evidence to say that Jajce itself was under the Kingdom of Croatia.

What does direct evidence mean?

While there are many references to various regions in the Kingdom of Croatia in medieval sources, Jajce is not explicitly mentioned in the major chronicles of the time, especially those written by Croatian historians or those detailing the Kingdom of Croatia's territorial boundaries. For example, Pavao (Paul) Radonić, a prominent Croatian historian, does not mention Jajce as part of the Kingdom of Croatia in his writings.

Medieval Croatian chronicles such as those of Thomas the Archdeacon (12th century) or later sources from Duke Branimir’s period do not list Jajce or the broader Bosnian territories under direct Croatian rule.

While the Kingdom of Croatia extended over large parts of the western Balkans, Jajce lies in the central region of modern Bosnia.

The Kingdom of Croatia's power during the 9th and 10th centuries was concentrated more towards the Dalmatian coast and western Bosnia, with Zadar, Split, and Dubrovnik as prominent centers. Jajce, being situated inland and in the midst of mountainous terrain, was strategically distant from the key urban and political centers of medieval Croatian power.

—🇭🇷❌🇧🇦 NEW: Croatian media condemned the speech of the Supreme Leader of the People's Republic of Bosnia, Walter Sarajevo, who stated that the city of Dubrovnik was historically a Bosnian royal city.

Walter attended the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the liberation of the city by the Bosnian Imperial army.

The city of Dubrovnik is currently located in the territory of Croatia, although it was historically part of Bosnia.

Making up history is fun.