Republic of Croatia Republika Hrvatska CAPITAL: Zagreb FLAG: Red, white, and blue horizontal bands with the Croatian coat of arms (red and white checkered). ANTHEM: Lijepa Nasa Domovina. MONETARY UNIT: The Croatian kuna (HRK was introduced in 1994,...
Croatia The Republic of Croatia is located in southeastern Europe, bordered by the Adriatic Sea to the south, Hungary to the north, Slovenia to the west, and Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, and Herzegovina to the east. According to the 2001 census, the...
Croatia POPULATION 4,390,751 ROMAN CATHOLIC 87.83 percent EASTERN ORTHODOX 4.42 percent OTHER CHRISTIAN 0.58 percent OTHER 1.4 percent AGNOSTIC, UNDECLARED, NOT RELIGIOUS, OR UNKNOWN 5.77 percent Country Overview Introduction The Republic of Croatia is...
IN ONE MORNING, Croatia dissipated much of the edge it has enjoyed over Serbia in Western favor. The Croats wasted this crucial asset by the manner of their thrust yesterday into rebel Serb-held Krajina, which constitutes a third of their country. Seeing the attack...
Jim Fish in his article on Yugoslavia {Oct. 20} points out that 500,000 Serbs in Croatia have "long and bitter memories of the slaughter of uncounted thousands in World War II concentration camps run by in the fascist puppet 'Independent Capital State of Croatia'...
Area: 56,594 sq km (21,851 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 4,450,000Capital: Zagreb Chief of state: President Stipe Mesic Head of government: Prime Minister Ivo Sanader Croatia entered 2006 with great optimism that it would achieve its principal foreign-policy goal, full membership in the European Union,...
Politics and soccer will mix in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup, which can't make FIFA happy.South and North Korea will meet in Asian qualifying for the tournament, and the United States could face Cuba in the CONCACAF semifinals.England also was drawn with the same...
