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4 unusual facts about Serbo-Croatian


Beč

Vienna, the capital of Austria, in the Serbo-Croatian (Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, Montenegrin) language.

Genitive case

In Czech, Slovak and Serbo-Croatian, negating with the genitive case is perceived as rather archaic and the accusative is preferred, but genitive negation in these languages is still not uncommon, especially in music and literature.

Serbo-Croatian

The differences among the dialects can be illustrated on the example of Schleicher's fable.

Zastava Skala

Zastava 101 is widely known by its nickname "Stojadin" (a male name, from the similarity with Serbo-Croatian for 101, "sto jedan").


Ali Abdolrezaei

Ali Abdolrezaei's poems have been translated into a variety of languages including English, German, French, Turkish, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Croatian and Urdu.

Ana Karić

Karić starred in a number of notable films produced in Croatia and directed by Croatian directors such as Ante Babaja, Nikola Tanhofer, Zvonimir Berković, and Krsto Papić.

Anton Rukavina

Rukavina previously spent five seasons playing for NK Pomorac in the Croatian Druga HNL and played for KF Skënderbeu Korçë and KS Kastrioti in Albanian Superliga.

Apatin

Frank Dancevic (born 1984), a Croatian-Canadian tennis player whose father hails from Apatin.

Association of Croatian Orthodox Believers

The association marks anniversaries of death of Patriarch Germogen of Croatia and other Croatian Orthodox priests killed by the Yugoslav Partisans in 1945.

Austin Area Translators and Interpreters Association

As of 2011, there are about 240 members working in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Mandarin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

Battle of Knin

Meanwhile the 19th Division fought off the attacks of the 373rd Wehrmacht Division along Knin - Zrmanja road near the river Krka.

Battle of Krbava Field

In one single day, around 7,000 Croatian soldiers lost their lives, including many of Croatian feudal nobleman of the time (princes/dukes Ivan Frankopan Cetinski, Petar II Zrinski and Karlo Gusić Krbavski, then Juraj Vlatković, ban of Jajce, Ferdinand Berislavić etc.

Bezeredi

Lujo Bezeredi (1898-1979), Croatian-Hungarian sculptor and painter

Butcher of the Balkans

Andrija Artuković (1899–1988), Croatian fascist politician and a minister of the Independent State of Croatia

Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003

Croatia selected its entry for the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest through the "Dora 2003" contest, which was held between 7 and 9 March 2003, organised by the Croatian national broadcaster Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HRT).

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.

Croteam

Croteam is a Croatian independent game developer based in Zagreb.

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.

Đuro Bago

In 2002, He became the assistant coach for the famous Croatian coach Miroslav Blažević when Blažević became head coach of first professional team of Dinamo Zagreb.

Far right in Croatia

Simon Wiesenthal Center director Efraim Zuroff complained to the Croatian president Stjepan Mesić about the funeral of Dinko Šakić, one of the leaders of the army of the Independent State of Croatia, who died on July 2008.

František Lipka

František Lipka is also an important translator of Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian and Macedonian literature.

Gabela, Bosnia and Herzegovina

According to history, Gabela was first mentioned in a contract between Nemanja, the ruler, and Dubrovnik as Drijeva (the Croatian word for ship or ferry).

Hrvatski Top Model

Croatian top-model Tatjana Jurić fills the host role of Tyra Banks in the original series as the head of the search as well as a mentor for the 16 girls that have been chosen to live in a house together in Zagreb.

Humanitarian Law Center

In April 2008 the submission of evidence by HLC about war crimes committed in Lovas, Croatia, led to the Belgrade War Crimes Chamber began the trial of 14 indictees for their alleged role in the killing of 70 Croatian civilians in the first war crimes trial of former Yugoslav National Army officers.

HŽ series 1061

The uniqueness in contrast to other Croatian electric locomotives is that it uses the 3 kV DC system, and is only deployed on the Šapjane-Rijeka-Moravice Line.

Ivan Bebek

Bebek is considered the best Croatian referee and is the only Croatian referee who supervised two UEFA Champions League group stage matches (Lazio v. Werder Bremen during the 2007–08 season and Bordeaux v. CFR Cluj in the 2008–09 season).

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.

Jerković

Antonio Jerkovic, American-educated photographer of Croatian origins

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.

Juan Vucetich

The Croatian city of Pula has a memorial marker to Vucetich, owing to his service there while in the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

Krašić

Krašić is the birthplace of the late Croatian Cardinal Blessed Aloysius Stepinac.

Kukoč

Toni Kukoč (born 1968), Croatian basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association

Marcio Leite

Leite was injured again with the same injury while playing for the Croatian Eagles Soccer Club in the annual Labor Day Croatian-North American Soccer Tournament in Cleveland, Ohio in September 2009.

Marija Omaljev-Grbić

She played in Moliere, Gogol, Sidran, Popovic and Pervan and started to act in many Bosnian and Croatian most popular Prime time TV Series and Sitcoms as well as in Croatian, Bosnian, German, Austrian and Turkish movies.

Matija Majar

Influenced by the Illyrian Movement in Croatia, especially by the Slovene-Croatian poet and activist Stanko Vraz, Majar started developing Pan-Slavic ideals.

Metodija Andonov-Čento

The following year, he imposed the use of the Macedonian language in school lectures and was therefore imprisoned at Bajina Bašta and sentenced to death by the government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia for advocating the use of a language other than Serbo-Croatian.

Milivoj

Milivoj Solar, a Croatian literary theoretician, literary historian, essayist and a university professor

Mladen Urem

Urem is frequent a contributor to the US literary journals Grand Street (New York), Partisan Review (Boston), World Literature Today (Norman, Oklahoma) and Corner (Oakland, California), in which he has also published various works by the Croatian writers Janko Polić Kamov, Miroslav Krleža, Ivo Andrić and Ivan Goran Kovačić.

Nives

Nives Celzijus (born 1981), Croatian socialite, model, singer and writer

Pavle Kalinić

He wrote introductions for several books translated into Croatian, such as The Third Way by Tony Blair, Clash of Fundamentalisms by Tariq Ali, Disarming Iraq by Hans Blix, The Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky.

Radoslav

Radoslav Katičić (born 1930), Croatian linguist, historian and culturologist

Serbo-Bulgarian War

However, the artillery was ill-equipped, still using muzzle-loading cannons of the La Hitte system.

Simović

Simović (transliterated as Simovic or Simovich, meaning "son of Sima") is a Serbo-Croatian (South Slavic) surname.

Sisak-Moslavina County

Today, Sisak features the largest Croatian metallurgic factory (supported by the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Metallurgy also in the city) and the largest oil refinery.

Slovene alphabet

This modern alphabet (abeceda) was standardised in mid-1840s from an arrangement of the Croatian national reviver and leader Ljudevit Gaj that would become the Croatian alphabet, and was in turn patterned on the Czech alphabet.

Srbská Kamenice

On 27 January 1972, Serbian stewardess Vesna Vulović was the only person on board to survive the crash of JAT Yugoslav Flight 364 after Croatian Ustašas set up the bomb, which exploded 10,160 meters (33,000 ft) above Srbská Kamenice.

Stjepan Damjanović

In 1971 he served as an assistant to the professor Eduard Hercigonja at the Department for Old Church Slavonic (today called Department for Old Church Slavonic language and Croatian Glagolitic), since 1982 serving as a docent and since 1986 as a regular professor.

The Outsiders of Uskoken Castle

The book is based on his experiences with these orphaned children in the Croatian city of Senj, where there is a castle called Nehaj Fortress.

Tolj

Tolj is a Serbo-Croatian surname of a family originating from a small town called Greda in the district of Ljubuški in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Villingen-Schwenningen

The town is the birthplace of German footballer Sebastian Rudy, NHL player Dennis Seidenberg, Croatian footballer Robert Prosinečki and Croatian former athlete Ivana Brkljačić whose parents were working in Germany at the time.

Vrlika

Vrlika was first mentioned in written sources in 1069, as the seat of Cetin County (Cetinska županija) - the old Croatian county, which included the towns of: Glavaš, Prozor, Sinj, Trilj, Stolac, Gradac, Nutjak, Tugare and Poljic parish (Poljička župa).

Vukovar, jedna priča

Writing for the Croatian daily Jutarnji list, Jurica Pavičić gave it a scathing review, saying the film was consistently promoting a false equidistance between the Croatian and Serbian nationalism in the war, that was especially irritating at the time when the Vukovar massacre had happened.

Waldemar Bonsels

His famous work Die Biene Maja (Maya the Bee) also served the basis for a Croatian opera for children written by Bruno Bjelinski, making Bonsels work known to even a great audience.

Zabranjena ljubav

Zabranjena ljubav (literal translation: "Forbidden Love", commonly abbreviated to ZLJ) is a Croatian daytime soap opera about the lives and loves of both young and older characters, focused on the major Croatian city of Zagreb.


see also

Bačka Oblast

According to 1921 census, oblast had linguistically heterogeneous population: speakers of Serbo-Croatian were dominant in the cities of Novi Sad, Sombor and Subotica; speakers of German were dominant in the districts of Apatin, Darda, Kula, Odžaci, Sombor and Stara Palanka; speakers of Hungarian were dominant in the districts of Topola and Batina; while speakers of Slovak were dominant in the district of Novi Sad.

Croatian Spring

Three Croatian linguists, Stjepan Babić, Božidar Finka and Milan Moguš, published a spelling and grammar textbook in 1971 called Hrvatski pravopis (Croatian Orthography), rather than the forced Srpskohrvatski (Serbo-Croatian).

Dje

Dje corresponds to the Latin letter D with stroke (Đ đ) in the Gaj's Latin alphabet of Serbo-Croatian, and is thus transliterated that way.

Esperanto orthography

Compare the Esperanto forms with Serbo-Croatian Vašington, Meksiko, and Gvatemala. Likewise, cunamo, from Japanese tsunami, is similar to Czech and Latvian cunami. Other spelling differences appear when Esperanto spelling is based on the pronunciation of English names which have undergone the Great Vowel Shift, as in Brajtono for Brighton, which housed the 1989 World Congress of Esperanto.

Filić

Filić is also an Serbo-Croatian name for the Italian town of San Felice del Molise.

Gorana

Gorana is a Serbo-Croatian female given name, meaning "female from the mountains", "highlander" etc. (see male form Goran).

Howard C. Reiche Community School

The students spoke 27 different languages other than English in their homes, including Arabic, Spanish, Somali, Khmer, Vietnamese, Serbo-Croatian, and Acholi.

Ivan Krušala

He later studied in Rome and the University of Padua, also writing poetry in the Serbo-Croatian language, (particularly on defense of Perast from the Turks in 1654).

Ivo Andrić

In terms of what language or dialect he wrote in, he wrote in Serbo-Croatian, which was officially considered one language in Yugoslavia; he had been a believer in Yugoslav unity and Pan-slavism.

Ja sam za ples

Ja sam za ples (English translation: "I'm up for a dance") was the Yugoslav entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1987, composed by Rajko Dujmić and Stevo Cvikić and sung by Novi Fosili in Serbo-Croatian.

Opanak

Serbo-Croatian òpanak/о̀панак, as well as Bulgarian and Macedonian опинок, ultimately derive from Proto-Slavic word *opьnъkъ.

Sherbrooke

The next most common mother tongues were English at 5.6%, Spanish at 1.3%, Arabic and Serbo-Croatian languages at 0.6% each, Persian at 0.4%, Niger–Congo languages at 0.3%, and Chinese and German at 0.2% each.

SKJ

League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian: Savez komunista Jugoslavije)