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  History of Croatia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The primary governor of Croatian provinces was the ban.
Croatian autonomy was restored in 1868 with the Hungarian–Croatian Settlement which wasn't particularly favorable for the Croatians.
The Croatian Peasent Party boycotted the government of the Serbian Radical People's Party throughout the period, except for a brief interlude between 1925 and 1927, when external Italian expansionism was at hand with her allies, Albania, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria that threatened Yugoslavia as a whole.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Croatia   (2572 words)

  
 Knin, Croatia
Croatian diocese was founded 1040 with jurisdiction extending to the Drava river, with the "Croatian bishop" at its head.
It was also the capital of the medieval Croatian state around 1080 during the rule of king Zvonimir.
After that, the Croatian population returned and the Franciscans built a monastery and a church in 1708.
www.creekin.net /c2933-n48-knin-croatia.html   (509 words)

  
 culturenet.hr - Panorama - Art - Time - History of Croatian Art - The First Croatian State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Thus, the Early Croatian churches are not only monuments of sacral architecture but the most important historical records of the period, for on the architraves and entablature of altar screens, on portals or ciboria, along with the plaitwork ornamentation are carved the names of Croatian princes, local leaders and distinguished persons.
The art of the period of the independent Croatian state, from the first known princes in the 9th century to the death of the last king of the national dynasty in 1093, i.
Following the usual early medieval scheme of iconographic perspective (which is applied and reappears in all "primitive" art, in all "naives" from Mesopotamia and Egyptian reliefs to contemporary peasant art and children's drawings), the monumentality of this composition is ensured by employing size to denote importance.
www.culturenet.hr /v1/english/panorama.asp?id=56   (4794 words)

  
 Medieval Croatian state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Croatian people trace their origins to Slavic peoples which moved into the territory of the former Roman provinces Pannonia and Dalmatia between the 7th and 8th centuries, and formed dukedoms.
It states that they migrated first around or before year 600 from the region that is now (roughly) Galicia and areas of the Pannonian plain, led by the Turkic Avars, to the province of Dalmatia ruled by the Roman Empire.
Croatian lands in the Dark Ages were located between three major entities: the Eastern Roman Empire which aimed to control the Dalmatian city-states and islands, the Franks which aimed to control the northern and northwestern lands, and the Avars, later Magyars, and other fledgling states in the northeast.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medieval_Croatian_state   (1774 words)

  
 Culture > CROATIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE - HERCEG BOSNA :: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina ::
No Croatian dictionaries (apart from historical "Croatian or Serbian", conceived in the 19th century) appeared until 1985, when Communist centralism was well in the process of decay.
Croatian religious and philosophical heritage and terminology vs. Serbian religious and philosophical heritage and terminology.
According to the eminent Croatian linguist Ljudevit Jonke, it was imposed on the Croats.
www.hercegbosna.org /engleski/croatian_language.html   (4338 words)

  
 All About Croatia
This treaty was the political recognition of the Croatian people and guaranteed that Croatia had the right to its own parliament, the Ban as Viceroy, and autonomy in administration, education, religion and the judiciary.
Although the idea of Croatian statehood was supported, the majority of Croatians opposed the Axis occupation of Croatia and founded the anti-fascist movement under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito and Andrija Hebrang.
In 1971, the Croatian democratic movement, known as the "Croatian Spring," was quashed by dogmatic centralistic forces that were opposed to pluralism and democracy in Croatia.
www.angelfire.com /oz/lesliesincroatia/aboutcroatia.html   (1248 words)

  
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During the war the Croatian and Slovene, and even the Serbian, soldiers of the Austrian army fought bravely for the Monarchy, mainly because they objected to Italian designs on their homelands, but the desire to unite all three peoples, whether inside or outside the Monarchy, did not diminish.
The new Serb-Croat-Slovene state was proclaimed on I December 1918.
On its ruins was created a Croatian state, headed by the Croatian fascist Ante Pavelic, while the Slovene lands were partitioned between Germany and Italy, and Macedonia was given to Bulgaria.
coursesa.matrix.msu.edu /~fisher/bosnia/readings/setonwatson2.html   (5068 words)

  
 Croats at European universities in Middle Ages, Latinists, Encyclopaedists
In Croatian: Jerolim je nass Dalmatin, on je dika, posstenje i slava i svitla kruna hrvatskoga jezika.
As a young Croatian philosopher, at the age of 24 he was appointed to be a professor of Hebrew and Greek at the University of Wittenberg, the center of Protestantism.
Josip Marinovic (1741 - 1801), was a Jesuit born in Perast - Kotor (in Boka kotorska, annexed to Montenegro in 1945), professor of theology in Venice.
www.croatianhistory.net /etf/lat.html   (11527 words)

  
 History of the Balkans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In 893 the vernacular of the Bulgarian Slavs was adopted as the official language of the Bulgarian state and church.
The state got weakened, however, in the middle of the 9th century as a result of barbaric raids from the north and the Bogomil heresy.
The Bulgarian state was restored by a revolt of the Asenides in Moesia in 1185.
history-of-the-balkans.iqnaut.net   (9306 words)

  
 Karatay - MEDIEVAL BOSNIAN ROYAL DYNASTY KOTROMANIDS - Transoxiana Eran ud Aneran
From this aspect, political structure of the Bosnian state is associated with Turkic states, especially with the Khazar qaganate, which applied the steppe tradition to a settled and semi-nomad society.
It is possible to start the state in those centuries, but he does not explain on which sources and thoughts he bases the claim that the Kotromanids were ever rulers of the state.
State tradition is an advanced level in social development, but acquaintance with this tradition and concept was not always sufficient to establish or have a state, even up to the modern times.
www.transoxiana.org /Eran/Articles/karatay.html   (9138 words)

  
 THE YUGOSLAV LABYRINTH, AEER 11 (1-2), 1993
In the 12th and 13th centuries the Croatian aristocracy and their peasantry then came under the Hungarians about the same time that the Nemanji dynasty was attempting to compete with and replace the decaying Byzantine Empire.
The inevitable consequence of locating the center of this new state in Belgrade was that its natural direction was to establish Serbian hegemony and to begin the process of language standardization based on the ekavian of the umadinci.
It is instructive to remember that the nationalist tendencies of the Croatian linguistic reformers were restrained, and their acceptance of linguistic commonality with the Serbs was driven principally by the threat of Germanic or Hungarian domination rather than by pan-Slavic conviction, and despite the temporary exhilaration of French rationalist influences after the Napoleonic Wars.
condor.depaul.edu /~rrotenbe/aeer/aeer11_1/hammel.html   (6894 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/kingtomislav
The Croatians fought the army of Simeon I of Bulgaria led by duke Alobogotur on May 27, 927 and won the famous Battle of the Bosnian Highlands.
Controversy Croatian historians Nada Klaic and Ivo Goldstein disputed the extension of Tomislav's kingdom.
It actually bears little importance on medieval Bosnian history, since the pre-Ottoman ethno-cultural landscape of this country was formed mainly in the period from the 13th to the 15th century.
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 Krajina - The Croatian Invasion
The invasion of Krajina was preceded by a thorough CIA and DIA analysis of the region.
Croatian General Tihomir Blaskic said, "We are building the foundations of our organization on the traditions of the Croatian home guard" - pro-Nazi troops in World War II.
Croatian human-rights activist Ivan Zvonimir Cicak says beatings, plundering, and arrests were the usual eviction methods.
members.tripod.com /kosovo99/krajina-.htm   (1829 words)

  
 Croatian Glagolitic Script
A Croatian Glagolitic Dominican priest Beniamin de Croatia, born probably in Split, participated in the preparation of Gennadij's Bible, the oldest Russian Bible (finished in 1499).
According to Croatian researcher Josip Hamm, members of the Bosnian Church (Krstyans) particularly appreciated the Glagolitic Script: all the important Bosnian Church books (Nikoljsko evandjelje, Sreckovicevo evandelje, the Manuscript of Hval, the Manuscript of Krstyanin Radosav, etc.) are based on Croatian Glagolitic Church books.
In the book a Croatian cyrillic is also exhibited, with the inscription on the tombstone of the Bosnian Queen Katarina (15th century).
www.croatianhistory.net /etf/et03.html   (7652 words)

  
 Krayina
In early August 1995, the Croatian invasion of Serbian Krajina precipitated the worst refugee crisis of the Yugoslav civil war.
Stipe Mesic, a prominent Croatian politician, stated that Croatian President Franjo Tudjman "received the go-ahead from the United States.
Croatia adopted a new currency in 1994, the kuna, the same name as that used by the Ustasha state, and the new Croatian flag is a near-duplicate of the Ustasha flag.
www.srpska-mreza.com /library/facts/Elich.html   (1731 words)

  
 Croatian Language School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Croatian Language School has teamed up with Amazon.co.uk to bring you a selection of books on Croatia and all things Croatian.
With a deft and sure touch, he records moments that capture the lingering spirit of the old world even as the former fabric of this place is unravelling forever.
It is divided into major sections on: the early medieval Croatian state (until 1101); the periods of union with Hungary (1102-1526) and with Austria (1526-1918); incorporation in Yugoslavia (1918-91); and the creation of a sovereign state.
www.easycroatian.com /books.php   (1356 words)

  
 The World According To Google - satellite pictures of the most interesting places on the World, satellite maps » ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
At that time Split was also the capital city of medieval Croatian duchy and later, kingdom; Croatian duke/king ruled from this city, as well as from some other nearby townlets: Solin, Klis, Biaći and Omiš.
On the peninsula, position on the west of the southern city port there was a medieval benedictin monastery of "St. Stephen under pines" (San Stephanus de Pinis), or in Croatian "Sveti Stipan pod borima".
Most famous inhabitant of that monastery was the son of Croatian king Demetrius Zvonimir (in Croatian: Dmitar Zvonimir), Stephen (in Croatian: Stipan).
maps.pomocnik.com /Split-Croatia   (1380 words)

  
 Medieval links
Hilandar Research Library at the Ohio State University
French Medieval History from the Hugh Capet to the First Crusade
Orasul de Floci, a medieval city in Walachia
web.clas.ufl.edu /users/fcurta/Links.html   (192 words)

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