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# TWIL #84 - Verdis
- URL: https://www.mattrutherford.co.uk/twil-84-verdis/
- Published: 2025-08-23T05:00:16.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-23T05:00:16.000Z
- Author: Matt
- Tags: TWIL

Every week, I share something I learned in the previous seven days. I usually find these while I'm putting my weekly newsletter together but somehow, they don't quite fit! 

This week I learned how a 14 year old boy founded his own 'micronation', somewhere on the border between Serbia and Croatia. 

[‘We would love to enter Eurovision!’ The boy who saw some unclaimed land – and founded his own countryDaniel Jackson was just 14 when he and his friends saw a strip of forest between Serbia and Croatia, and decided to claim it. Now 20, he is the president of Verdis, but has been forced to live in exile![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/c2/2e/c22ecd6b-9412-4701-b914-97051141e207/content/images/icon/apple-touch-icon-512-2.png)The GuardianLucy Knight![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/c2/2e/c22ecd6b-9412-4701-b914-97051141e207/content/images/thumbnail/4640.jpg)](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/19/daniel-jackson-unclaimed-land-croatia-serbia-verdis?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk)

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