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2 unusual facts about Croats


Serbo-Croats

Statistics on the nationalities of the Austrian monarchy (the former Kingdom of Dalmatia and Istria, all residents are classified according to the language as "Serbocroats."

Spiros Vondas

His Croatian identity is Kirko Skaddeng and he is ostensibly a medical assistant from Osijek (note, however, that both the first and last names "Kirko Skaddeng" are not typically Croatian, or South Slavic in general).


2007 Australian Open

Serb fans claimed that the violence had been provoked by Croat use of the Croatian national flag, which in their eyes carried connotations of Second World War fascism, while Croats claimed that the violence was provoked by Serbs shouting anti-Croat, pro-Serb chants.

Aleksandra Radović

After completing the tour, she announced that she was working on a third album with Aleksandra Milutinović, Goran Kovačić, Darko Dimitrov, Nikša Bratoš and famous Croatian singer-songwriter Arsen Dedić.

Alfred Sherman

Well before the September 11 attacks and the Iraq War, Sherman argued that Washington had "set up the cornerstone of a European Islamistan in Bosnia and a Greater Albania, thus paving the way for further three-sided conflict between Moslems, Serbs and Croats in a bellum omnium contra omnes.... Far from creating a new status quo it has simply intensified instability."

Ali Shafizadeh

Over the years he has bought numerous players for substantial fees, including Adriano Alves, Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail and Saša Ilić, and coaches such as Croatian Luka Bonačić and Serbian Srđan Gemaljević.

Bosnian mujahideen

On June 8, 1993, Bosnian Army attacked Croat forces in the area of Maline village as a reaction to the massacres committed by Croats in nearby villages of Velika Bukovica and Bandol on June 4.

Bunjevci

The historically Bunjevac village of Donji Tavankut had 989 Bunjevci, 877 Croats, and 600 declared as Yugoslavs.

Constitution of 1921

Vidovdan Constitution - first constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes passed on 28 June 1921

Croats in the Czech Republic

They believed that the colonization of the Croats started from the Croatian regions south of the Kupa and Petrova Gora, better known as Banska Krajina or today Banovina, was summarized by Adolf Turek.

Croats in the Republic of Macedonia

In 2006, Croatian President Stjepan Mesić and his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski announced that the Croats would receive national minority status in Macedonia.

Damir Lesjak

Damir Lesjak (born 31 March 1967) is a former Croatian footballer who played for Dinamo Zagreb, Israeli side Hapoel Haifa and Belgian club Mouscron.

Defence Council

Croatian Defence Council, the main military formation of the Croats during the Bosnian War charged with achieving military objectives

Dimitrija Demeter

One of his most known works includes early romanic poem Grobnik field (near Rijeka) written in 1842 for the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Grobnik field where according to legend Croats defeated the invading Tatars.

Ferdo Šišić

History of the Croats under the Arpad Kings (1102-1301), an unfinished compilation published after his death, is generally considered below the level of his magnum opus.

Genetic studies on Serbs

An analysis of molecular variance based on Y-chromosomal STRs showed that Slavs can be divided into two groups: one encompassing West Slavs, East Slavs, Slovenes, and western Croats, and the other encompassing Bulgarians, Macedonian Slavs, Serbs, Bosniaks, and northern Croats (the latter five populations are South Slavic speakers).

Hrvoje Požar

Hrvoje Požar (5 July 1916 - 30 June 1991) was a Croatian engineer and one of the top world scientists at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Huljich brothers

The Huljich brothers: Christopher Peter "Chris" Huljich (born 1950), Paul Richard Huljich (born 1952) and Michael Huljich (born 1957) are Auckland manufacturers, merchants, entrepreneurs, rentiers and philanthropists of Croatian descent.

Ivo Fabijan

Ivo Fabijan-Mrvelj (Vrbovac, Odžak, 1950 - Zagreb, 2006), was a controversial Croatian musician, singer and composer, and produced pop music and patriotic songs.

Jetmir Sefa

He is also part of the Albanian national team and has been since 2009 after being included in the squad by Croatian coach Josip Kuže for the record breaking 6-1 destruction of Cyprus on 12 August 2009 at the Qemal Stafa Stadium.

Jim Zulevic

Zulevic, of Scottish and Croatian extraction, grew up in Chicago, where he graduated from St. Thomas More Grammar School, Brother Rice High School and Columbia College Chicago.

Josip Mikoczy-Blumenthal

However, his most important work is "Hrvati rodom Slaveni, potekli od Sarmata potomaka Medijaca" (eng. "Croats of Slavic group originated from Sarmatians descending from Medians") which he defended as a doctoral dissertation in Royal Academy in Zagreb in 1797.

József Ficzkó

From 1802 until his death Ficzkó was priest in the small village of Peresznye, near Kőszeg, in an area in Western Hungary in which many Burgenland Croats lived, as they were called later (the term Burgenland for the westernmost part of Hungary, inhabited by Germans and Croats and separated from Hungary in 1921 according to the Treaty of Trianon, was created after 1918).

Livno

Croatian writer Ivan Goran Kovačić joined the communist movement "Partisans" where he wrote his epic poem Jama (The Pit).

Mary Helen Stefaniak

She comes from the family of Croats from Hungary, that originates from Novo Selo (Tótújfalu) in Hungary, being thus a part of the indigenous Croatian minority in that country.

Molise Croats

Molise Croats originated from area of Zabiokovlje (hinterland area of mountain Biokovo) in southern Croatia, between cities of Imotski, Zagvozd and Makarska (theory based on čakavian and štokavian-čakavian features in Molise Croatian speech, found also in Zabiokovlje area) (Muljačić).

Momčilo Đujić

In late September 1942, Đujić's Chetniks killed up to 200 Croats in the village of Gata near Split, causing outrage by the Italians.

Museum of Military History, Vienna

In front of its main entrance, the museum once displayed the MiG-21 of Croatian pilot Rudolf Perešin who deserted JNA.

Nada Klaić

She provided a comprehensive and original concept of the early medieval development of the Croatian lands in the book History of the Croats in the Early Middle Ages (1971), while she collected her writings about numerous problems of the later period in the book History of the Croats in the High Middle Ages (1976).

Napredak

HKD Napredak, cultural society of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Nino Bule

Nino Bule (born 19 March 1976 in Čapljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a retired Croatian footballer who played as a striker.

Pan-Slavism

In Austria-Hungary Southern Slavs were distributed among several entities: Slovenes in the Austrian part (Carniola, Styria, Carinthia, Gorizia and Gradisca, Trieste, Istria (also Croats)), Croats and Serbs in the Hungarian part within the autonomous Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia and in the Austrian part within the autonomous Kingdom of Dalmatia, and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, under direct control from Vienna.

Petar Pekić

As Bunjevci Croat from southern Austria-Hungary, he participated on the Paris Peace Conference on September 22, 1919 as a part of Bunjevci Croats mission.

The Bowman and The Spearman

The sculptures were made in Zagreb by Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović and installed at the entrance of the parkway in 1928.

Tino Pattiera

Tino Pattiera (27 June 1890 - 24 April 1966) was a Croatian tenor, born in Cavtat, near Dubrovnik.

Tomislav Nikolić

In a May 2012 interview, Nikolić was quoted by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung to have said that ″Vukovar was a Serb city and Croats have nothing to go back to there″.

Uskoks

The Ottoman conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the early years of the 16th century drove large numbers of Croats from their homes, which in the town of Klis prompted the formation of the Uskok military.

Veszprém stabbing

Cozma and other members of the KC Veszprém handball team (including Croat goalkeeper Ivan Pešić and Serb playmaker Žarko Šešum) arrived at the two-storey bar at around 12:30 a.m. to celebrate the birth of teammate Gergő Iváncsik's son and the birthday of teammate Nikola Eklemović.

Vinko Pribojević

It was the first time that such ideology was formulated as a program, which was further developed by the Croats Mavro Orbini and Juraj Križanić.

Vukovar, jedna priča

It is a typical love story, between a Croat woman Ana (Mirjana Joković) and a Serb man Toma (Boris Isaković), who marry one another with the blessing of both families right before the Battle of Vukovar.

Washington Place

An American merchant sea captain, John Dominis (1796–1846) came to America in 1819 from Trieste, probably from a Croatian family.

Yugoslav Republican Alliance

The Yugoslav Republican Alliance (Jugoslovanski Republicansko Zdruzenje) was a political party founded in 1917 founded in exile in Chicago, United States, by the fusion of the Slovene Republican Alliance with Croats and other South Slav people.

Žar Ptica

She worked on third album with Aleksandra Milutinović, Goran Kovačić, Darko Dimitrov, Nikša Bratoš and famous Croatian singer-songwriter Arsen Dedić.

Zdravko Lorković

Zdravko Lorković (3 January 1900, Zagreb – 11 November 1998, Zagreb) was a Croatian entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.


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