Croatia

Guide to CROATIA

CROATIA which official name is Republic of Croatia or Croatia, is a country from Europe located at the Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia. CROATIA with 2,197 km sq km, limits with: Bosnia and Herzegovina 932 km, Hungary 329 km, Serbia 241 km, Montenegro 25 km, Slovenia 670 km; and is divided in 20 counties . CROATIA's capital is Zagreb which is the most populated city with about 698,967 inhabitants.

History of CROATIA

CROATIA's government is presidential/parliamentary democracy; a Republic with a Ceremonial government type, with President Stjepan Mesic as head of state and Prime Minister Ivo Sanader as head of government.

Other symbols of CROATIA are Croatian motto " Bog i Hrvati (unofficial) (Croatian, God and the Croats), historical: antemurale christianitatis (Latin: forewall of Christianity) Croatian anthem "Lijepa naša domovino (Our Beautiful Homeland) Croatian flag.Croatian flag is composed by three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and blue superimposed by the Croatian coat of arms (red and white checkered) .

CROATIA's history is quite long: 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.

CROATIAs geography

Guide to travel to CROATIA

If you are thinking on traveling to CROATIA, you will have to take in consideration some points like CROATIA's currency, CROATIA's weather, CROATIA's national holiday and CROATIA's transports.

The first thing you need to know for your travels abroad is country's currency. CROATIA`s currency is called kuna ( HRK), which is divided in 100 lipas. For your consideration, kuna's exchange rate is about St. Francis Xavier Cathedral in Hrodna per dolar.4.5782038704.

CROATIA's weather is characterized to be Mediterranean and continental; continental climate predominant with hot summers and cold winters; mild winters, dry summers along coast. So be sure of choosing the proper date to travel to CROATIA.

You can also consider to visit CROATIA on it's national holiday to get in CROATIA's culture. If you do so, CROATIA's national holiday is called Independence Day, 8 October.

Also, if you like natural wonders, don't forget to visit the highest point of CROATIA: Dinara 1,830 m. And try also to get to CROATIA's lowest point: Adriatic Sea 0 mBut if you prefer the city, you must visit CROATIA's tallest structure: ( ).

Don't be afraid to take a flight to CROATIA, with more than 68 airports and 1 airlines, you will get to CROATIA without problems. Once there, you can choose the transport type that better fits your needs. CROATIA has about2,726 of railways, and also785 of roadways, so is a good place for a car trip.

Croatian Culture

CROATIA is known by Croatians as Republika Hrvatska or Hrvatska in the shortened way. Croatian, about 4,493,312 people, are composed by different ethnics: Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, other 5.9% (including Bosniak, Hungarian, Slovene, Czech, and Roma) (2001 census). And they also have different languages: Chinese .

Another relevant point nowadays it's CROATIA's religion. Croatians are divided in Roman Catholic 87.8%, Orthodox 4.4%, other Christian 0.4%, Muslim 1.3%, other and unspecified 0.9%, none 5.2% (2001 census). So you can visit any of it's4 like Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Zagreb .

But if want to know more about CROATIA's culture, the best way is by reading the most famous Croatian novelists' books like Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981), Ivan Aralica (1930– ) or Ivo Andric (1892–1975).

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