The title for this post might seem a bit, "non Balkany", but please bare with me. 

I can't tell you how many times over the years, I have travelled along the road from Gradiška towards Banja Luka, passing through the villages of Nova Topola and Aleksandrovac. 

I would never have thought back on those trips, that for some 65 years at the end of the 19th an…