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Croatia
n.
Republic of Croatia, country located in the Balkan area (formerly part of Yugoslavia)
Croatia
Croatia ( ; ), officially the
Republic of Croatia (, ), is a
sovereign state at the crossroads of
Central Europe,
Southeast Europe, and the
Mediterranean. Its
capital city is
Zagreb, which forms one of the country's
primary subdivisions, along with its
twenty counties. Croatia covers and has diverse, mostly
continental and
Mediterranean climates. Croatia's
Adriatic Sea coast contains
more than a thousand islands. The country's population is 4.28 million, most of whom are
Croats, with the most common religious denomination being
Roman Catholicism.
Croatia
Noun
1. a republic in the western Balkans in south-central Europe in the eastern Adriatic coastal area; formerly part of the Habsburg monarchy and Yugoslavia; became independent in 1991
(synonym) Republic of Croatia, Hrvatska
(hypernym) European country, European nation
(part-holonym) Balkan Peninsula, Balkans
(member-meronym) Croatian, Croat
(part-meronym) Dubrovnik, Ragusa
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Background
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. Under UN supervision, the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998.
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