1.   Fighting in Croatia stopped and started throughout October, as ceasefire agreements were announced but broke down, and ports on the Adriatic coast came under blockade.

2.   The Cathedral has much in common with contemporary Norman cathedrals on the Italian southern Adriatic coast opposite.

3.   Along the rugged Adriatic coast, a few of the bunkers have been turned into novelty restaurants and shops.

4.   Artillery exchanges between Croatian government troops and rebel Serbian forces continued for the second day near the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, on the Adriatic coast.

5.   As does the striking Adriatic coast, with its cliffs and turquoise waters, its comforting harbors and sheltering islands.

6.   As we were driving toward Mostar, I fell asleep with the Adriatic coast outside my window.

7.   Blasts of thunder rolled out over the rocky, razorbacked precipices that rise and fall in profusion along the Adriatic coast.

8.   Croatian forces, continuing the swift assault, also captured Benkovac, a strategic city on the Adriatic coast.

9.   Every day, news shows and newspapers chronicle the desperate traffic in refugees who are smuggled along the Adriatic coast in crowded dinghies by criminal gangs.

10.   Every year, tens of thousands of Albanian, Kurdish and North African refugees come ashore on the Adriatic coast.