War

I wandered into a naval museum on a hill off the port of Split. It shared space with a school inside the high walls of an old fort. Perhaps built by the Venetians or the Ottomans who contested for control of the Adriatic for hundreds of years.

The museum had a variety of rusting munitions in addition to a few ships: anti aircraft machine guns, mines to protect a harbor or blow up a ship, torpedos...set on a terrace above a church built within the fortifications.







And, later, in one of the city's museums, I came across some early engravings of battles in this area...identifying the positions of Turk and Venetian forces...




as they fought for control of the city...




And then along one of the walls a series of pikes used way before the time of machine guns and mines...







And what was gained, what was lost...Croatia is an interesting spot of consider these weapons...the battles have gone on for so very long and continue so close to the present date.

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Location:Split, Hvratska