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| | NationMaster - Statistics on Croatia. 3412 facts and figures, stats and information on Croatian economy, crime, people, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. |
 | | Following World War II, Yugoslavia became a federal independent Communist state under the strong hand of Marshal TITO. |
 | | Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter, fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands. |
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