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Our interview with Tportal

The Croatian portal Tportal came to meet us at our office in Zagreb to talk to us about the upcoming book on the Habsburg Empire and the Extinguished Countries project in general. They were also particularly interested in when a guide to Yugoslavia will come out…

You can read the full interview (in Croatian) here.

Giovanni Vale

Giovanni Vale was born in Gemona del Friuli (Italy) in 1987. He graduated in International and Diplomatic Sciences from the University of Trieste, studied Arabic in Morocco and France, and began working as a journalist in Paris before moving to Zagreb in 2014. Since then, he has been covering the former Yugoslavia for various European media outlets such as RSI, La Croix and OBCT. He founded Extinguished Countries in 2020.

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