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Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe. Its coast lies entirely on the Adriatic Sea. Croatia borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west. Its capital and largest city, Zagreb ...
Croatian Wikipedia. The Croatian Wikipedia ( Croatian: Wikipedija na hrvatskome jeziku) is the Croatian language version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, started on February 16, 2003. [1] This version has 220,677 articles and a total of 6.93 million edits have been made. It has 313,717 registered users, out of which 523 have been active in ...
The Kingdom of Croatia ( Croatian: Kraljevina Hrvatska; Latin: Regnum Croatiæ ), or Croatian Kingdom ( Croatian: Hrvatsko Kraljevstvo ), was a medieval kingdom in Southern Europe comprising most of what is today Croatia (without western Istria and some Dalmatian coastal cities), as well as most of the modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Official status. Areas with an ethnic Croatian majority (as of 2006) Standard Croatian is the official language of the Republic of Croatia [53] and, along with Standard Bosnian and Standard Serbian, one of three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina. [2] It is also official in the regions of Burgenland (Austria), [54] Molise (Italy) [55 ...
Split ( / ˈsplɪt /; [4] [5] Croatian pronunciation: [splît] ⓘ ); Italian: Spalato: pronounced [ˈspalato] see other names ), is the second-largest city of Croatia after the capital Zagreb, the largest city in Dalmatia and the largest city on the Croatian coast. It lies on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea and is spread over a central ...
1 August. Battle of Saint Gotthard (1664) : Ottoman forces were dealt a decisive defeat by the League of the Rhine at Szentgotthárd . 10 August. Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664): The Peace of Vasvár was signed, ending hostilities for twenty years and ceding some Croatian land to the Ottoman Empire .
The culture of Croatia has historically been influenced by Central European, Mediterranean, and Balkan cultures. [1] [2] [3] Croatia's unique culture and identity can be traced back to the historical llyricum. The Croatian language is believed to have been formed in the 6th or 7th century, [4] with the written language present in Glagolitic ...
