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| Official language | Croatian (+ Italian in Istria county) | ||||
| Capital | Zagreb | ||||
| President | Stjepan Mesic | ||||
| Prime Minister | Ivo Sanader | ||||
| Area - Total | Ranked 124th 56,542 km˛ 0.01% | ||||
| Population | Ranked 117th 4,422,248 | ||||
| Independence | 25 June 1991 | ||||
| Currency | kuna (kn) | ||||
| Time zone - in summer | CET ( UTC+1) CEST ( UTC+2) | ||||
| National anthem | Lijepa naša domovino | ||||
| Internet TLD | .hr | ||||
| Calling Code | 385 | ||||
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Main article: History of Croatia
The Croats are a largely Slavic people, who migrated from areas of what is today Galicia (in Ukraine and Poland) and settled in present-day Croatia during the 7th century. It became one of the most powerful kingdoms in the region. In 1102 the Croatians ended a decade-long dynastic struggle by agreeing to submit themselves to Hungarian authority. By the mid-1400s, the Hungarian kingdomThe Kingdom of Hungary is the name of a multiethnic kingdom that existed from 1000 to 1918. It arose in present-day western Hungary and subsequently spread to remaining present-day Hungary, to Transylvania (in present-day Romania), Slovakia, Carpatho-Ukra was gravely impacted by the OttomanOsmanlı İmparatorluğu Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye The Ottoman Coat of Arms Imperial motto: unknown The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital İstanbul ( Constantinople) Sovereigns Sultans expansion while DalmatiaDalmatia ( Croatian Dalmacija Italian Dalmazia Serbian ) is a region of Croatia on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, spreading between the island of Pag in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. The inner Dalmatia Dalmatinska Zagora str became mostly VenetianThe Republic of Venice was a state in Venetia in Northeastern Italy, based around the city of Venice. It was known as Most Serene Republic . History The city of Venice, previously a dependency of the Byzantine Empire, had established its independence of e. The Republic of DubrovnikDubrovnik ( Latin Ragusa , population 43,770 in 2001, 49,728 in 1991 is a port and one of the most prominent tourist resorts on the Adriatic Sea coast in the extreme south of Croatia, and the center of the Dubrovnik-Neretva county, positioned at 42:39N La was independent.
The Battle of MohácsThis article explains the more well known Battle of Mohacs of 1526. There was also another battle in the same locality in 1687. The Battle of Mohacs was fought on August 29, 1526 between the Hungarian army led by Louis II and the Ottoman army led by Sulei in 1526Events January 14 Treaty of Madrid. Peace between Francis I of France and Charles V. Francis agrees to cede Burgundy to Charles, and abandons all claims to Flanders, Artois, Naples, and Milan. May 22 Francis repudiates the Treaty of Madrid and forms the L led the Croatian ParliamentThe parliament of Croatia is called Hrvatski Sabor in Croatian the word sabor means an assembly, a gathering, a congress. According to the Constitution, it is a representative body of the people and is vested with the legislative power in the Republic of to invite the Habsburgs, under Ferdinand I, to assume control over Croatia. Habsburg rule eventually did prove to be successful in thwarting the Ottomans, and by the 18th century, much of Croatia was free of Turkish control. Istria, Dalmatia and Dubrovnik all eventually passed to the Austro-Hungarian Empire between 1797 and 1815.
Following World War I and the demise of Austria-Hungary, Croatia joined the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (which became Yugoslavia in 1929). Yugoslavia was invaded during World War II and Croatia was made into a fascist puppet-state named the Independent State of Croatia. After the defeat of the Axis powers, Yugoslavia became a federal socialist state under the strong hand of Josip Broz Tito.
Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic and often bitter fighting with the Serbs before the end of the war in 1995. Peaceful reintegration of all rebel territories was completed in 1998 under UN supervision.
Croatia applied for European Union membership in 2003 and the EU leaders accepted it as an official candidate country in 2004. Accession talks will begin in early 2005, with entry into the EU expected around 2007- 2010.