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[quoteost_uid0="Nan"][color=#000000ost_uid0]Not as aggravating as Polish, though. Gdansk. Przemysl. Swietokrzyski. Kleszczele? What the hell? That's 4 consonents in a row![/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]There's always Lodz (imagine the "L" has a diagonal slash thru the upright stem, here -- I don't have that one on my keyboard) which is pronounced "woodge", or the name Szulc, which sounds the same as Schultz. Polish is fun.

[quoteost_uid0]Back to the Balkan thing: the southernmost province of Yugoslavia, Macedonia, managed to break free without any bloodshed, the only one to do so.
[/quoteost_uid0]Didn't Slovenia also manage to step out with a minimum of fuss?

More historical trivia: the area occupied by Yugoslavia managed to be on the dividing line many times, over the years.
• Western Roman Empire (Roman Catholic, Roman alphabet)/Eastern (Byzantine) Empire (Orthodox, Cyrillic alphabet) [4th-c. -> ]
• Holy Roman Empire/Arab->Turkish Empires [8th-c. -> ]
• Austro-Hungarian Empire/Ottoman Empire [15th-c. -> ]
• Axis/Allied (WWII)
etc.[/colorost_uid0]