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 the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem. Croatian is based on the Štokavian dialect (with some influence from Čakavian and Kajkavian) and written with the Latin alphabet. The modern Croatian standard language is a continuous outgrowth of more than nine hundred years of literature written in a mixture of Croatian Church Slavonic and the vernacular language. If the sub ...

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August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 135 days remaining. August 18 - Events. 1201 - The city of Riga is founded. 1541 - A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day Kumamoto Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1541) 1572 - Wedding in Paris of the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre with Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcil ...

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Croatia is the Latinized version of the native name of the country: Hrvatska. The letter "r" in the first syllable "hrv" is rolled or continuant, which is a linguistic trait strange to languages such as English, making the word seemingly impossible to pronounce by some of those speakers. However, not all other languages use the Latinized version, many use a form more similar to the native one. For example: Hrvaška in Slovenian Хрватска (≅ Hrvatska) in Bosnian, Serbian, and Macedoni ...

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Čakavian dialect is divided along several criteria. According to the reflex of old Slavic phoneme yat (which is explained on Shtokavian dialect page) it is categorized as: ekavian (northeastern Istria, Rijeka) ikavian-ekavian (islands Krk, Pag, Lika region) ikavian (western Istria, islands Brač, Hvar, Vis, Korčula, Pelješac) ijekavian (Lastovo island) Other linguists have combined phonetic and phonological criteria, resulting in 6 groups of subdialects: Buzet dialect ...

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The culture of Croatia has roots in a long history: the Croats have been inhabiting the area for thirteen centuries, but there are important remnants of the earlier periods still preserved in the country. Some of the earliest remaining historical features include: 100,000 year old bones of a Neandertal man near Krapina (Krapina-Zagorje county) Neolithic excavation sites in Ščitarjevo near Zagreb, Sopot near Vinkovci, Vučedol near Vukovar, Nakovanj on the Pelješac peninsula and elsewhere records of in ...

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The establishment of the Yugoslavian state was an important event in the history of the Croatian language. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1941) was dominated by the Serbian government, which tried to use a joint language in the spirit of supra-national Yugoslav ideology. This meant that Croatian and Serbian were no longer developed individually side by side, but were attempted to be forged into one language under political pressure. Owing to the nature of the state politics at the time, this forging was resultant in a Serbian-based language ...

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Croatian kuna - German Croatian kuna 1941-1945. The Kuna was made the Croatian currency after the fascist puppet state of Croatia was set up. It was divided into 100 banica and replaced the Yugoslav dinar at par. It was replaced by the reconstituted Yugoslavian dinar at a rate of 1 dinar = 40 kuna. Croatian kuna - Croatian kuna 1994-. The kuna was introduced in June 1994 after the transitional period following Croatian independence in the early 1990s during which the Yug ...

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People born in Illyria or the subsequent Roman province, now part of Croatia, before the Great Migrations and the arrival of Croats and other Slavs: Diocletian - Roman emperor from Dalmatia, Split Jerome, St. Eusebius Hieronymus Sophronius - born at Stridon, Istria (then Pannonia - often missclassified as being in present-day Dalmatia] Saint Marinus - builder of San Marino, from Rab Valentinian I - Roman emperor from Pannonia Valens - Roman emperor from Pannonia Pop ...

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Although the beginnings of Split are usually linked to the building of Diocletian's Palace, there is evidence that this area was inhabited as a Greek colony even earlier. Diocletian was a Roman emperor who ruled between AD 284 and 305 and was known for his reforms and persecution of Christians. He ordered the work on the palace to begin in 293 in readiness for his retirement from politics in 305. The palace faces the sea on its south side and its walls are 170 to 200 m (570 to 700 feet) long and 15 to 20 m (50 to 70 feet) high, and it encloses a ...

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The establishment of the Yugoslavian state was an important event in the history of the Croatian language. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1941) was dominated by the Serbian government, which tried to use a joint language in the spirit of supra-national Yugoslav ideology. This meant that Croatian and Serbian were no longer developed individually side by side, but were attempted to be forged into one language under political pressure. Owing to the nature of the state politics at the time, this forging was resultant in a Serbian-based l ...

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List of Croats - Art. Andrija Aleši - builder Antun Albini - architect Hermann Bolle - architect, (ethnic German) Andrija Buvina - builder Juraj Dalmatinac - architect Viktor Kovačić - architect Luciano Laurana - architect Vladimir Milunic - architect Radovan - sculptor, builder from Trog ...

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Croatia has six universities in six larger cities: University of Zagreb [1] University of Split [2] University of Rijeka [3] University Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Osijek [4] University of Zadar [5] University of Dubrovnik [6] Each of the universities in Croatia is composed of many independent "faculties" (Croatian fakultet, meaning college or department). Each independent college or department maintains its own administration, professional staff (also known as a "fa ...

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Some of the people Croatians take special pride in include: founder of the first Croatian kingdom King Tomislav statesman and soldier Nikola Šubić Zrinski poet Marko Marulić playwright and prose writer Marin Držić inventor of parachutes Faust Vrančić physicist and diplomat Ruđer Bošković army general and ban Josip Jelačić sculptor Ivan Meštrović physicist and engineer Nikola Tesla (ethnic Serb) inventor of torpedoes Ivan Lupis-VukićSee also:

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Main article: Culture of Croatia Croatian culture is based on a thirteen century long history during which the country has attained many monuments and cities, which gave birth to a good number of brilliant individuals. The country includes six World Heritage sites and eight national parks. Three Nobel prize winners came from Croatia, as did numerous important inventors and other notable people — notably, some of the fir ...

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For a full list see List of Croats. Nobel Prize winners Ivo Andrić - literature Vladimir Prelog - chemistry Lavoslav Ružička - chemistry Literature Miroslav Krleža - novelist Antun Gustav Matoš - poet August Šenoa - writer Marko Marulić - writer Ivan Dživo Gundulić - poet Science Ruđer Bošković - physicist and Jesuit Faus ...

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Croatian language is today the official language of the Republic of Croatia and, along with Bosnian and Serbian, one of three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina. There is no single official definition of Croatian, but there exists an Institute for Croatian language and linguistics with a prescription department. The current rules of the language are generally laid out in the grammar books and dictionaries used in education facilities, such as the school curriculum prescribed by the Ministry of Education and the univer ...

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Croatian kuna - Coins. 1 lipa head: maize 2 lipe head: vitis vinifera 5 lipa head: oak 10 lipa head: tobacco 20 lipa head: olive 50 lipa head: degenia velebitica 1 kn head: nightingale 2 kn head: tuna fish See also:

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The UNESCO has marked six places in Croatia as World Heritage: Episcopal complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the historic centre of Poreč the cathedral of St. James in Šibenik historic city of Trogir historic complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian old city of Dubrovnik Plitvice Lakes As far as natural beauty goes, Croatia has eight national par ...

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Main article: Economy of Croatia Croatia has an economy based mostly on various services and some, mostly light industry. Tourism is a notable source of income. The estimated Gross Domestic Product per capita in purchasing power parity terms for 2004 was USD 11,200 or 41.6% of the EU average for the same year. The Croatian economy is post-communist. In the late 1980s, at the beginning of the process of economic transition, its position was favourable, but it was gravely impacted by de ...

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Croatia - Political system. Main article: Politics of Croatia Since the adoption of the 1990 Constitution, Croatia has been a parliamentary democracy. The President of the Republic (Predsjednik) is head of state and elected for a five-year term. In addition to being the commander in chief of the armed forces, the president has the procedural duty of appointing the Prime minister with the consent of the Parliament, and h ...

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