Croatian language - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Croatian Language: Encyclopedia - Croatian Language
The Croatian language is a language of the western group of South Slavic languages which is used primarily by the Croats. It is one of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Language - Unification And Separation With Serbian
The establishment of the Yugoslavian state was an important event in the history of the Croatian language. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia (191...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Language - Unification And Separation With Serbian
The establishment of the Yugoslavian state was an important event in the history of the Croatian language. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia (191...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bosniaks: Encyclopedia - Bosniaks
Serbia and Montenegro:    c. 245,000   Serbia:   136,087 [+19,503] (2002) [1]   Montenegro:  ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mura: Encyclopedia - Mura
Mura (German Mur) is a river in Central Europe, a subsidiary of the bigger Drava and subsequently the Danube. The source of the river is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vojvodina: Encyclopedia - Vojvodina
 – Serbia    – Kosovo and Metohia        (UN administration)  &...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Dalmatia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Dalmatia - Middle Ages
History of Dalmatia - Medieval city-states and the country. Following the great Slavic migration into Illyria in the first half of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatia In The Habsburg Empire: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatia In The Habsburg Empire - 19th Century Up To Wwi
The governments of Austria and Hungary each tried to colonize Croatia over a period of several centuries: they imposed their languages on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Croatia - Croatian Lands Before The Croats Until 7th C.
The area known as Croatia today has been inhabited throughout the prehistoric period, since the Stone Age. In the middle Paleolithic, Nea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Differences In Standard Serbian Croatian And Bosnian: Encyclopedia Ii - Differences In Standard Serbian Croatian And Bosnian - Speaking
Differences in standard Serbian Croatian and Bosnian - Accentuation. Accentuation of the official languages is different. However, acce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Croatia - History
The culture of Croatia has roots in a long history: the Croats have been inhabiting the area for thirteen centuries, but there are import...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - South Slavic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - South Slavic Languages - Central Or Eastern Western Group Of South Slavic Languages
South Slavic languages - History. Each of these primary and secondary dialectical units breaks down into subdialects and accents by reg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Linguistic Purism: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Linguistic Purism - The Yugoslav Period
During Yugoslav period, from 1918 to 1990, the Croatian language was subject to "unification" with the Serbian language into Serbo-Croati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kajkavian Dialect: Encyclopedia Ii - Kajkavian Dialect - History
Dialectogical investigations of kajkavian dialect have begun at the end of the 19th century: the first comprehensive monograph was writte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vatroslav Jagić: Encyclopedia Ii - Vatroslav Jagić - Life
Jagić was born in Varaždin where he attended the elementary school and is the place where he started his middle school education. He fi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vojvodina: Encyclopedia Ii - Vojvodina - History
Main article: History of Vojvodina Throughout history the territory of present day Vojvodina has been a part of Dacia, the Roman Empire, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zadar: Encyclopedia Ii - Zadar - History
In the 9th century BC Iader was settled by the Liburnians, a tribe of Illyrians. After 59 BC Iadera became a Roman municipium, and in 48 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stjepan Mesić: Encyclopedia Ii - Stjepan Mesić - Early Years
Stjepan Mesić, commonly shortened to Stipe Mesić, was born in Orahovica, Slavonia. He graduated from the gymnasium in Požega and from ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Red Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - Red Croatia - Controversy Over Red Croatia
There is much controversy over the historical existence of Red Croatia. The main sceptics are Serbian historians . The whole controversy ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chakavian Dialect: Encyclopedia Ii - Chakavian Dialect - Characteristics
Čakavian dialect is divided along several criteria. According to the reflex of old Slavic phoneme yat (which is explained on Shtokavian ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marin Držić: Encyclopedia Ii - Marin Držić - Life
Born into well to do numerous family (with 6 sisters and 5 brothers) in Dubrovnik, Držić was trained and ordained as a priest — a cal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poreč: Encyclopedia Ii - Poreč - Physical Characteristics
The grotta (cave) of Baredine, the only open geological monument of Istria, is in the vicinity. Lim bay,(Limski kanal) is a 12 km long fj...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ivo Andrić: Encyclopedia Ii - Ivo Andrić - Biography
Andrić was born on October 9, 1892, in the village of Dolac near Travnik, Bosnia, then part of Austria-Hungary and today part of Bosnia ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Istria County: Encyclopedia Ii - Istria County - Geography
Its coastline is 445 km long with islands making up 539.9 km. A smaller part ­of Istria also belongs to the Primorje-Gorski Kotar county...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stjepan Mesić: Encyclopedia Ii - Stjepan Mesić - Early Years
Stjepan Mesić, commonly shortened to Stipe Mesić, was born in Orahovica, Slavonia. He graduated from the gymnasium in Požega and from ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vojvodina: Encyclopedia Ii - Vojvodina - History
Main article: History of Vojvodina Throughout history the territory of present day Vojvodina has been a part of Dacia, the Roman Empire, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dubrovnik: Encyclopedia Ii - Dubrovnik - History
See also Republic of Dubrovnik. Dubrovnik was founded by joining two small towns: Laus, a town on a small island off the southern Dalmati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bosniaks: Encyclopedia Ii - Bosniaks - History
Bosniaks - Pre-Slavic roots. The earliest well known inhabitants of the area now known as Bosnia and Herzegovina were the Illyrians. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poreč: Encyclopedia Ii - Poreč - Heritage
The city ground plan still shows ancient Roman Castrum structure. The main streets are Decumanus and Cardo Maximus still preserved in ori...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poreč: Encyclopedia Ii - Poreč - History
Locality is known since the prehistoric times. During the 2nd century BC Roman Castrum was built on tiny peninsula with dimensions just a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poreč: Encyclopedia Ii - Poreč - The Capital
Unknown outside the Europe, today as it was for decades within Yugoslavia, Poreč is undisputed Croatian tourist capital with no other ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Red Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - Red Croatia - Origins Of The Term
Red Croatia was first mentioned in the 12th century by the Latin Catholic Priest of Dioclea or Duklja (today's Bar, Montenegro) in his wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Red Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - Red Croatia - References In De Administrando Imperio
The Byzantine book known as the De Administrando Imperio, written in the 10th century by Byzantine emperor Constantine VII, gives two acc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Red Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - Red Croatia - References In The Chronicle Of The Priest Of Duklja
The De Regno Sclavorum portion of the Chronicle of the Priest of Dioclea was translated by Croat-Italian Ioannes Lucius (Ivan Lučić) in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poreč: Encyclopedia Ii - Poreč - Economy
Traditionally, the people activities were always connected with the land and the sea. No significant industries but food processing is in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kajkavian Dialect: Encyclopedia Ii - Kajkavian Dialect - Kajkavian Literary Language
Kajkavian is not only a folk dialect, but has, in the course of history of Croatian language, been the written language (along with the c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kajkavian Dialect: Encyclopedia Ii - Kajkavian Dialect - Characteristics
Some kajkavian words bear a closer resemblance to other Slavic languages (such as Russian) than they do to Štokavian or Čakavian. For i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nikola Tesla: Encyclopedia Ii - Nikola Tesla - Personal Views
Tesla believed that war could not be avoided until the cause for its recurrence was removed, but was opposed to wars in general.[26] He s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Red Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - Red Croatia - References In Scylitza's Chronicle
The notion of Croats in Duklja is supported with the testimony from Byzantine Chronicler John Scylitza where he writes: " Dukljan King M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chakavian Dialect: Encyclopedia Ii - Chakavian Dialect - History
Čakavian is the oldest Croatian dialect that had made visible appearance in legal documents — as early as 1275("Istrian land survey")[...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kajkavian Dialect: Encyclopedia Ii - Kajkavian Dialect - Example
Kak je, tak je; tak je navek bilo, kak bu tak bu, a bu vre nekak kak bu! ... See also:Kajkavian dialect, Kajkavian dialect - Character...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Red Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - Red Croatia - Discussion And Comparison Of Sources
One may see that Byzantine, Roman, German, and Venetian chronicles all suggests the existence of Red Croatia. Several documents like the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vojvodina: Encyclopedia Ii - Vojvodina - Geography
Main article: Geography of Vojvodina The region is traditionally divided by the Danube and Tisa rivers into: Bačka in the northwest, Ban...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vatroslav Jagić: Encyclopedia Ii - Vatroslav Jagić - Interests
He was very interested in the language of old Slavs (staroslavenski jezik, Old Church Slavonic), concluded and proved that it did not ori...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zadar: Encyclopedia Ii - Zadar - Cultural Heritage
Zadar - Architecture. Zadar gained its urban structure in Roman times; during the time of Emperors Julius Caesar and Augustus, the town...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zadar: Encyclopedia Ii - Zadar - Economy
Major industries include tourism, traffic, seaborne trade, agriculture, fishing and fish farming activities, metal manufacturing and mech...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bosniaks: Encyclopedia Ii - Bosniaks - Culture
Bosniaks - Folklore. Bosniak folklore has a long tradition dating back to the 15th century. Like many other elements of Bosniak culture...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bosniaks: Encyclopedia Ii - Bosniaks - People
Bosniaks - Bosniaks today. Today, a national consciousness is found in the vast majority of Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vatroslav Jagić: Encyclopedia Ii - Vatroslav Jagić - Works
Works on the literature and language written by Jagić started to be published for the first time in the reports of the Gymnasium where h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nikola Tesla: Encyclopedia Ii - Nikola Tesla - Middle Years
In 1886, Tesla formed his own company, Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing. The initial financial investors disagreed with Tesla on ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ivo Andrić: Encyclopedia Ii - Ivo Andrić - Works
The material for his works was mainly drawn from the history, folklore and culture of his native Bosnia. Andrić began writing in Croatia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Red Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - Red Croatia - References In Dandolo's Chronicle
A Chronicle of Dalmatia by Venetian writer named Andrea Dandolo (1300-1354) gives evidence that where geographic Surbia is a geographic d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nikola Tesla: Encyclopedia Ii - Nikola Tesla - Later Years
In 1900, with $150,000 (51% from J. Pierpont Morgan), Tesla began planning the Wardenclyffe Tower facility. In June 1902, Tesla's lab ope...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stjepan Mesić: Encyclopedia Ii - Stjepan Mesić - Mesić In The 1990s
He was elected again in 1990 as a candidate of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in the first multi-party elections in Croatia after Wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Red Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - Red Croatia - References By Stefan Nemanja
In Stefan Nemanja's declaration in 1198 he writes how he forcefully expanded the Serbian state to include Duklja. He writes: "i priobreto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nikola Tesla: Encyclopedia Ii - Nikola Tesla - Death And Afterwards
Tesla died alone in the New Yorker hotel of heart failure, some time between the evening of January 5 and the morning of January 8, 1943,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Croatia - Places
The UNESCO has marked six places in Croatia as World Heritage: Episcopal complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the historic centre of Po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Croatia - People
Some of the people Croatians take special pride in include: founder of the first Croatian kingdom King Tomislav statesman and soldier Ni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nikola Tesla: Encyclopedia Ii - Nikola Tesla - Recognition And Honors
As the result of his achievements in the development of electricity and radio, Nikola Tesla received many awards and accolades. He was se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - South Slavic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - South Slavic Languages - Eastern Group Of South Slavic Languages
South Slavic languages - Bulgarian dialects. Main article: Bulgarian language South Slavic languages - Macedonian dialects. Main arti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - South Slavic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - South Slavic Languages - Transitional South Slavic Languages
South Slavic languages - Torlakian dialect. Main article: Torlakian dialect There also exists another dialect, called torlački or torl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - South Slavic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - South Slavic Languages - Western Group Of South Slavic Languages
South Slavic languages - Kajkavian dialects. Main article: Kajkavian dialect Kajkavian is mostly spoken in northern Croatia, in and aro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vojvodina: Encyclopedia Ii - Vojvodina - Demographics
Main article: Demographic history of Vojvodina Population by national or ethnic groups: 1,321,807 Serbs (65.05%) 290,207 Hungarians (14....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vojvodina: Encyclopedia Ii - Vojvodina - Politics
The current ruling coalition in the Vojvodina parliament is composed of the following political parties: Democratic Party, United for Voj...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Linguistic Purism: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Linguistic Purism - After Communism
After the collapse of Communism and subsequent wars, the situation changed. Many Croatian people reacted by "expelling" all words in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatia In The Habsburg Empire: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatia In The Habsburg Empire - The Ottoman Incursion
The change of leadership was far from a solution to the war with the Turks, in fact, the Ottoman Empire gradually expanded in the 16th ce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chakavian Dialect: Encyclopedia Ii - Chakavian Dialect - Čakavian Literary Language
Since čakavian was the first Croatian dialect to extricate from Church Slavic matrix, both literacy and literature in this dialect aboun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatia In The Habsburg Empire: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatia In The Habsburg Empire - 17th And 18th Century
After the battle of Sisak in 1593, when the Ottoman army was successfully repelled for the first time on the territory of Croatia, the lo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stjepan Mesić: Encyclopedia Ii - Stjepan Mesić - Mesić In The 1990s
He was elected again in 1990 as a candidate of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in the first multi-party elections in Croatia after Wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Linguistic Purism: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Linguistic Purism - The Illyrian Period And Šulek's Activity
The Illyrian movement and its successor, the Zagreb philological school, have been particularly successful in creating the corpus of Croa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Linguistic Purism: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Linguistic Purism - The Early Period
In the Dubrovnik Renaissance literature, 16th century poet Dinko Zlatarić freely "translated" Greek and Latin names into Croatian — so...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Differences In Standard Serbian Croatian And Bosnian: Encyclopedia Ii - Differences In Standard Serbian Croatian And Bosnian - Writing
Differences in standard Serbian Croatian and Bosnian - Script. Though all could theoretically use either, the scripts differ: Croatian...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Croatia - Education
Croatia has six universities in six larger cities: University of Zagreb [1] University of Split [2] University of Rijeka [3] University ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Istria County: Encyclopedia Ii - Istria County - Geology
Sites such as the Grotto of Beredine near Poreč, the underground river Foiba in Pazin is a popular geologic attraction. The Limski Kanal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Dalmatia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Dalmatia - New Era
History of Dalmatia - Dalmatia in Napoleon's times. Later in 1797, in the treaty of Campo Formio, Napoleon gave Dalmatia to Austria in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Istria County: Encyclopedia Ii - Istria County - People
Over 205 000 people or 4.65% of the state population live here. Population density is 73 inhabitants per km² with an average age of 40.2...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vojvodina: Encyclopedia Ii - Vojvodina - Cities
Largest cities of Vojvodina are: Novi Sad (215,659), Subotica (99,471), Zrenjanin (79,545), Pančevo (76,110), Sombor (50,950), Kikinda (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Istria County: Encyclopedia Ii - Istria County - History
The caves near Pula, Lim fjord--Sandalja and Roumald's cave, house stone age archeaological remains. Less ancient stone age sites, from t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Istria County: Encyclopedia Ii - Istria County - Communication
Istra is well connected with the rest of Croatia and Europe. Due to its connection with a wider European area, road development suitably ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Dalmatia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Dalmatia - Old Ages
History of Dalmatia - Illyria and the Roman Empire. The history of Dalmatia began when the tribe from which the country derives its nam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nikola Tesla: Encyclopedia Ii - Nikola Tesla - Further Readings And Films
There are at least two films describing Tesla's life. In the first, arranged for TV, Tesla was portrayed by Rade Šerbedžija. In 1980, O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Croatia - Personal Union With Hungary 1102–1526
Main article: Croatia in the union with Hungary The consequences of the change to the Hungarian king included the introduction of feud...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vojvodina: Encyclopedia Ii - Vojvodina - Geography
Main article: Geography of Vojvodina The region is traditionally divided by the Danube and Tisa rivers into: Bačka in the northwest, Ban...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Croatia - Medieval Croatian State Until 1102
The Croat and other Slavic tribes arrived in what is today Croatia and Bosnia in the 7th century. The Croats organized into two dukedoms...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Croatia - Second Yugoslavia 1945–1991
Croatia became part of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia in 1945, which was run by Tito's Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Tito, himself a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Croatia - Habsburg Empire Venice And The Ottomans 1527–1918
The 1526 Battle of Mohács was a crucial event in which the rule of the Jagiellon dynasty was shattered by the death of King Louis II. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Croatia - World War Ii 1941–1945
The Axis occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941 allowed the Croatian radical right Ustaše party to come into power, forming the so-called "Ind...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Croatia - First Yugoslavia 1918–1941
Shortly before the end of the Great War in 1918, the Croatian Parliament severed relations with Austria-Hungary as the Allied armies defe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Language - A Note On Serbo-croatian
One still finds many references to Serbo-Croatian, and proponents of Serbo-Croatian who deny the existence of Croatian (as well as Serbia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Language - Illyrian Period
But, due to the unique Croat linguistic situation, formal shaping of Croatian standard language was a process that took almost four centu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Language - The Serbian Connection
The 19th century language development overlapped with the upheavals that befell Serbian language. It was Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, an e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Language - Language Examples
Croatian language - Notturno A. G. Matoš. Mlačna noć; u selu lavež; kasan Ćuk il netopir; Ljubav cvijeća - miris jak i strasan S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Language - Modern Language And Standardisation
Although the first purely vernacular texts in a Croatian distinctly different from Church Slavonic date back to the 13th century, it was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Language - Current Events
Croatian language is today the official language of the Republic of Croatia and, along with Bosnian and Serbian, one of three official la...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Language - Phonology
Croatian language - Vowels. The Croatian vowel system is simple, with five long and five short vowels (all monophthongs), as well as th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Language - Illyrian Period
But, due to the unique Croat linguistic situation, formal shaping of Croatian standard language was a process that took almost four centu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Language - The Serbian Connection
The 19th century language development overlapped with the upheavals that befell Serbian language. It was Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, an e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Language - Modern Language And Standardisation
Although the first purely vernacular texts in a Croatian distinctly different from Church Slavonic date back to the 13th century, it was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Language - Early Development
The beginning of the Croatian written language can be traced to the 9th century, when Old Church Slavonic was adopted as the language of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Language - A Note On Serbo-croatian
One still finds many references to Serbo-Croatian, and proponents of Serbo-Croatian who deny the existence of Croatian (as well as Serbia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatian Language - Phonology
Croatian language - Vowels. The Croatian vowel system is simple, with five long and five short vowels (all monophthongs), as well as th...   » Read the article