Croatia
Croatia (Hrvatska) is a country in Central Europe and the former republic of Yugoslavia. Its area is 56.542 km ². Croatia includes the Dalmatian coast, the islands in the Adriatic and Slavonia (Slavonia) – part of the northern lowlands of the former Yugoslavia. To the north borders Croatia to Slovenia, south to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia, west to the Adriatic and east also for Serbia and Montenegro. One of the most visited places, along the Adriatic Coast, Plitvice Lakes.
History of Croatia
The area is part of ancient Illyria, who in the 7th century was conquered by Slavic Croats and Slovenes, which in the 11th century became an independent kingdom. Starting in 1091 heard the area under Hungary in the 16th century under the Ottomans, and in 1699 the Habsburgs in Austria-Hungary.
In 1918 Croatia became a part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, was in opposition to the Serbian regime and worked for independence. After the Italian and German attacks and subsequent invasion against Yugoslavia was formed on 10 April 1941 a formal independent aksemagtlydstat called Independent State of Croatia (Hrvatska Nezavisna Država) on the German model. The country was ruled by fascist Ante Pavelic as poglavnik (“driver”). Duke never came to Croatia and renouncing royal dignity in 1943 by Pietro Badoglio’s capitulation to the Allies.
In 1943 Croatia occupied the rest of Dalmatia, who was Italian. In the years 1944-1945 liberated Croatia from the fascist regime of Tito’s forces and became a republic in the Yugoslav federation.
Cuba & Cote DIvoire
