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unusual facts about Serbo-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."


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.

Architecture of Serbia

The influence of Byzantine architecture reached its peak after 1300 including the rebuilding of the Our Lady of Ljeviš (c1306-1307) and Church of St. George at Staro Nagoričane as well as the Gračanica monastery.

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.

Beč

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

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

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.

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.

Filić

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Livno

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

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.

Milan Milišić

He wrote several volumes of poetry and translated, among others, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, the poems of Robert Frost, and Ted Hughes into the Serbo-Croatian language.

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.

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.

Opanak

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

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.

Serbo-Bulgarian War

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

Shkodran Metaj

Shkodran Metaj (Serbo-Croat: Škodran Metaj) (born 5 February 1988 in Studenica, Peć, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Dutch footballer of Kosovan descent.

Simović

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

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.

The File on H.

The expedition of the two scholars is an obvious allusion to the research of Milman Parry and Albert Lord in Bosnia, whose effect was to make the oral epic tradition in Serbo-Croatian far better known, at least in Western scholarship, than it had been before.

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.

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″.

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.

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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