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  History of Croatia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The consequences of the change to the Hungarian king included the introduction of feudalism and the rise of the native noble families such as Frankopan and Šubić.
In 1934, the king Aleksandar was assassinated abroad, in Marseilles, by a coalition of two radical groups: the Croatian Ustaše and the Macedonian VMRO.
Croatia received some autonomy in 1939 with a reshuffling of the provinces, but the militarist regime in Belgrade crumbled in 1941 and the Axis powers quickly occupied Yugoslavia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Croatia   (2095 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: History of Croatia
King Tomislav of Croatia Tomislav (died in 928?) was the first king of Croatia.
Events Alfonso IV the Monk becomes king of Leon Ha-Mim proclaims himself a prophet among the Ghomara of Morocco Tomislav, duke of the Croatian duchies of Pannonia and Dalmatia, is crowned King of Croatia at Duvno field.
Lika is a mountainous region in central Croatia, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Plješevica mountain from the northeast.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Croatia   (7184 words)

  
 History of Croatia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The first (additional info and facts about King of Croatia) King of Croatia, (additional info and facts about Tomislav) Tomislav of the Trpimirović dynasty, was crowned in (additional info and facts about 925) 925.
In 1934, the king Aleksandar was assassinated abroad by radical groups his government exiled.
Croatia became part of the (additional info and facts about Democratic Federal Yugoslavia) Democratic Federal Yugoslavia in 1945, which was run by Tito's (additional info and facts about Communist Party of Yugoslavia) Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/history_of_croatia.htm   (2008 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Croatia
The king took an oath to defend the rights and boundaries of his new kingdom, a promise which was never fully observed, and the hopes of the national heroes Simeon Bakatch, Bishop of Zagreb and Krsto Frankopan failed of fulfillment.
Croatia is represented in the House of Magnates by three delegates; in the House of Representatives by forty delegates.
Ecclesiastically Croatia constitutes one province, erected by the Bull "Auctorem omnium" of Pius IX on 11 Dec., 1852.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/04510a.htm   (3550 words)

  
 Kingdoms of Eastern Europe - Croatia
Croatia maintains its autonomy but confirms Koloman as its king, and crowns him King of Croatia and Dalmatia in Biograd.
Croatia is now governed on behalf of the Hungarian king by the continuation of the office of Ban (viceroy) and the Sabor (parliament, literally, "a gathering of people").
Croatia is part of the Yugoslavian Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, until Alexander II changes the name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsEurope/EasternCroatia.htm   (1397 words)

  
 Croatia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Croatia and Venice struggled to dominate Dalmatia as the power of Byzantium faded, and for a time the Dalmatians paid the Croats tribute to assure safe passage for their galleys through the Adriatic.
In 1075 a papal legate crowned Dmitrije Zvonimir (1076-89) king of Croatia.
Ottoman armies overran all of eastern and southern Croatia south of the Sava River in the early sixteenth century, and slaughtered a weak Hungarian force at the Battle of Mohacs (Hungary) in 1526.
www.geohistory.com /GeoHistory/GHMaps/GeoWorld/NCroatia.html   (2551 words)

  
 ENGLISH
With the Decree of the Roman Catholic Church, Prince Tomislav was crowned King of all Croatia in 925.
The Croatian Church (Croatian language) was supported by King Tomislav, and it has been written and said that he lost his life in his battles to retain his people's church that was established from Nin as the first Catholic Croatian bishopry by Pope John VIII in 879, and independent of Split.
King Tomislav was an ally of Bishop Grgur of Nin, and Pope John X had endearing predispositions toward the Croatian people.
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 boys clothing: European royalty -- Croatia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Stjepan II King of of Croatia and Dalmatia, +1090/91
Croatia in the 12th century was confronted by Catholic Hungary and Orthodox Serbia.
Croatia in the 15th century faced an expanding Ottoman Empire The Croatian Assembly in the mid-1400s invited the Habsburgs, under Archduke Ferdinand, to assume control over Croatia.
histclo.com /royal/cro/royal-cro.htm   (1370 words)

  
 Croatia
The first king of Croatia was crowned in 925.
Hungarian king Coloman was recognized as the common king for Croatia and Hungary in a treaty of 1102 (often referred to as the Pacta Conventa), thus making a personal union with Hungary.
Croatia received some autonomy in 1939 when the provinces were shuffled so that there was one called the Croatian banovina comprised of Croatia, Dalmatia, and parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
www14.brinkster.com /philayu/CRO/croatia.htm   (589 words)

  
 Timeline Croatia
King Tomislav was crowned first king of Croatia by decree of the Holy Catholic Church in Rome, and was its founder.
1900 Mar 9, Aimone, duke of Spoleta-Aosta, Italian king of Croatia (1941-43), was born.
King Alexander I renamed the Balkan state called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes to Yugoslavia in 1929.
timelines.ws /countries/CROATIA.HTML   (5047 words)

  
 Croatia - Coat of Arms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The arms of Croatia, checquy argent and gules, were originally used by the medieval Kings of Croatia.
On medieval coinage, the arms of Croatia appear to be a mullet of six over a crescent (the motif appears on coins as early as the late 12th century).
The oldest Croatian tribes that setteled the area of modern Croatia before Christianization (we are talking about 7th centruy or so) worshiped pagan gods, and as it is not unusual, these were represented by star and crescent (as is the ultimate origin of the muslem symbols as well, but that is an other story).
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/hr-heral.html   (1920 words)

  
 Croatia in 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Croatia was colonized first by the Celts and later by the Illyrians.
The first King of Croatia, Tomislav of the Trpimir dynasty, was crowned in 925, having united the Pannonian and Dalmatian duchys and created a sizeable state, including most of today's Central Croatia, Slavonia, Dalmatia, and most of Bosnia.
In 1868, Croatia was given domestic autonomy, but the governor was appointed by Hungary.
berclo.net /page03/03en-croatia.html   (905 words)

  
 CROATIAN KING TOMISLAV
Croatia spread from the Raga River in Istria to the Drin in today's Albania, and from the Adriatic Sea to the Drava and Danube Rivers in the north, and to the Drina River in the east.
The country was divided into White Croatia, from the Raga to the Cetina in Dalmatia, and Red Croatia, from the Cetina to the Drin.
Serbian župan Zacharias fled from Symeon to Croatia in the spring of 925 A.D.: C. Porphyrogenitus, op.
www.studiacroatica.com /jcs/01/01mandic.htm   (4220 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of Croatia, 802-1102
(1058-1074) merged the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia and was confirmed by Pope Gregory VII.
As he was crowned King of Hungary in 1106, a long history of DYNASTIC UNION of Hungary and Croatia began.
In 1091, Croatian nobles concluded the PACTA CONVENTA with King Ladislaus of Hungary, promising the Croatian crown to the king in exchange for a guarantee of Croatian autonomy.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/balkans/croat8021102.html   (497 words)

  
 Hungary Politics and Society under Stephen's Successors - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, ...
Transylvania was conquered and colonized with Magyars, Szekels (a tribe related to the Magyars), and German Saxons in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Croatia was never assimilated into Hungary; rather, it became an associate kingdom administered by a ban, or civil governor.
King Andrew II (1205-35), a profligate spender on foreign military adventures and domestic luxury, made huge land grants to nobles who fought for him.
workmall.com /wfb2001/hungary/hungary_history_politics_and_society_under_stephens_successors.html   (645 words)

  
 Welcome to Adobe GoLive 5
1102-1116: KOLOMAN THE BEAUCLERC (Kalman; King of Hungary)
1301-1305: WENCESLAUS I (King of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland)
1440-1444: ULASZLO I OF VARNA (King of Poland as Ladislaus III, King of Hungary)
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 Croatian boys clothes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Croatia suceeded from Yugoslavia (1991), resulting in one od several wars connected withbthe breakup of Yugoslavia..
Croatia is on of the European countries from which emmigrants have flowed through much of recent history.
Croatia is a small Balkan country that was formerly part of Yugoslavia.
histclo.com /country/other/co-cro.html   (1667 words)

  
 Travel To Croatia
Croatia became one of the most powerful kingdoms in the region, but in 1102 the Croatians ended a decade-long dynastic struggle by agreeing to submit themselves to Hungarian authority.
Post-WWI, Croatia became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed Yugoslavia) and apart for a brief spell as a fascist puppet state in WW2 it remained Yugoslav territory until independence under Tuđman in 1991, hostilities with the Yugoslav rump ending in 1992.
The Republic of Croatia (Croatian: ''Republika Hrvatska'') is a parliamentary democracy with an elected president.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/206/travel-to-croatia.html   (2280 words)

  
 Yugoslavia The Croats and Their Territories - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current ...
Another Hungarian king, Kálmán, crushed opposition after the death of Laszlo and won the crown of Dalmatia and Croatia in 1102.
The crowning of Kálmán forged a link between the Croatian and Hungarian crowns that lasted until the end of World War I. Croats have maintained for centuries that Croatia remained a sovereign state despite the voluntary union of the two crowns, but Hungarians claim that Hungary annexed Croatia outright in 1102.
Ottoman armies overran all of eastern and southern Croatia south of the Sava River in the early sixteenth century, and slaughtered a weak Hungarian force at the Battle of Mohács (Hungary) in 1526.
workmall.com /wfb2001/yugoslavia/yugoslavia_history_the_croats_and_their_territories.html   (2128 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of Croatia, 1102-1301
The relation between Croatia and Hungary had been aggred on in the PACTA CONVENTA of 1091.
Under Hungarian rule, FEUDAL LAW was introduced; the King of Hungary and Croatia made the nobility dependent on the King by handing out fiefs.
The Kings of Hungary, especially after the devastating Tatar raid of 1241-1242 (Battle of Sajo 1241), provided the cities with charters, granting them far-reaching autonomy, in return for taxation and for the promise to fortify themselves (city walls).
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/balkans/croat11021301.html   (322 words)

  
 Boxing News: King of Croatia | TheSweetScience.com Boxing
King, his son Carl and Preskar met with Croatian President Stepjan Mesic on Monday morning at the presidential compound, a wooded park-like area not far from the center of
During their breakfast meeting, King hailed Mesic as a visionary for standing up for his beliefs of true freedom and democracy for his people.
King’s visits with these political leaders were given considerable coverage on all major Croatian television and radio stations as well as in newspapers and magazines.
www.thesweetscience.com /boxing-article/2767/boxing-news-king-croatia   (578 words)

  
 iGourmet.com - Encyclopedia of Cheese
Stilton: Historically referred to as "The King Of Cheeses," Stilton is a blue-mold cheese with a rich and mellow flavor and a piquant aftertaste.
It has narrow blue-green veins and a wrinkled rind which is not edible.
Several hundred years ago, Brie was one of the tributes which the subjects had to pay to the French kings.
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 King Zvonimir
Zvonimir was elected and crowned as King according to the customs of elections and coronations in Western Europe and particularly of the German Roman Emperors.
Zvonimir married the sister of the Hungarian King, Ladislav, and he was the last great king of the Croatian national dynasty.
The succeeding rulers, Stephen and Peter Svacic (1089-97) were also rulers of national blood, yet the greatness of Zvonimir overshadowed the brief reign of these last national kings of Croatia.
users.skynet.be /hendrik/eng/Zvonimir.html   (471 words)

  
 Croatia - Historical Military Flags   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
However, there might be that the practice was (as it is today in Croatia, BTW) that each "type" of units would have similar numbers, and not necesserily all numbers be filled.
The flag of the little-known Italian Legion, which drove trucks on the Eastern Front was the standard red-white-blue with 25 field chessboard, bordered in gold in the center.
Above the shield, in the red was the ancient crown of the Croatian Kingdom (Crown of King Zvonimir), since Italy appointed its own "king" of Croatia.
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 Croatia - A Little of Croatian and Slavic History
Background of Croatia: 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.
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.
Under UN supervision, the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998
slavs.freeservers.com /Croatia.html   (2369 words)

  
 Balkan 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Zdeslav, succeeded his father as Duke of Croatia (864), but was overthrown the same year by his cousin Demagoj; Zdeslav later succeeded Demagoj's son Iljiko, ca 878; he was overthrown in 879 by a nobleman named Branimir
Mutimir, Duke of Croatia (ca 892-910); he was probably, though not certainly, the father of these two sons:
King Mihail Kresimir II of Croatia (948-969); m.Jelena N
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 Paradox Interactive Forums - The Croatian Dream AAR
Croatia is ruled by the Great King Gingić.
Flandern and Holland have been ceded to Croatia by Gelre in the peace treaty of Paris.
Croatia is confirmed as the World's Greatest Power.
www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=178124   (1499 words)

  
 Facts about Croatia: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
King Bela IV issues the Golden Bull in which he proclaims Zagreb a Free Royal City
Croatia is largely liberated of Turkish rule; continental Croatia remains under the rule of Habsburg, and the largest part of the Adriatic coast and islands are under Venice; only Dubrovnik Republic remains completely independent
Croatia proclaims independence; the Serbian rebellion starts, supported by the Yugoslav National Army from Belgrade and results in the occupation of one third of Croatian territory
www.hr /hrvatska/history.en.html   (505 words)

  
 Myth*ing Links: Central & Eastern Europe / Balkans: Croatia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The primary objectives of the project are to document Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic cultures in the northern Adriatic region (Istria Peninsula, Republic of Croatia) and to situate these activities and strategies in their paleoenvironmental and cultural contexts....
Croatia together with Hungary passed to the Hapsburgs in 1526, and no Jews lived there for the next 200 years....
Croatia has long been regarded as one of the most beautiful parts of Europe, and despite the tragedy and horror of recent years its charms are largely intact.
www.mythinglinks.org /euro~east~Balkans~Croatia.html   (4355 words)

  
 Croatian King Tomislav
He was crowned as King in 925 A.D. and disappeared in 928 A.D. - pronounced dead, at the time of ominous discord between the Croatian Catholic Church and the Latin Catholic Church.
The discord being over which Catholic Church should be the only, and legal Church in Croatia.It is not known to this day, where King Tomislav was buried, how he died - he simply disappeared as if he never existed.
of Australia is to pursue in the quest of finding the post-mortem remains of King Tomislav, finding his Crown, and returning them in their original place of glory - monument to the father of independent Croatia.
www.croatian-king-tomislav.com   (467 words)

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