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Mostar(MOH-star)encapsulatesthebestandtheworstoftheformerYugoslavia.Duringthe
Tito years, its residents—Catholic Croats, Orthodox Serbs, and Muslim Bosniaks—enjoyed
an idyllic mingling of cultures, all living together in harmony, their differences spanned by
an Old Bridge that epitomized an optimistic vision of a Yugoslavia where ethnicity didn't
matter. But then, as the country unraveled in the early 1990s, Mostar was gripped by a
gory three-way war among those same peoples...and that famous bridge crumbled into the
Neretva River.
