{
  "id": 13953242,
  "title": "Balkan countries show the dangers in obsession with ‘heritage’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/balkan-countries-show-the-dangers-in-obsession-with-heritage",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-12T12:08:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/10/balkan-countries-show-the-dangers-in-obsession-with-heritage/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "I write from Dubrovnik, a historic and heavily touristed city on Croatia’s Adriatic coast. Visiting here and other parts of Croatia and its next-door neighbor Slovenia, I’m reminded that the Balkan countries used to be part of a bigger entity called Yugoslavia. Before that, some of the Yugoslavian countries were part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, […] The post Balkan countries show the dangers…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}