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Croatia is a nation in Europe. 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 Josip Broz, aka 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, along with a majority of Croatia's ethnic Serb population. Under UN supervision, the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998. The country joined NATO in April 2009 and the EU in July 2013.[1]
Croatian Polities
Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (1963-1992)
Croatia (1943-1991)
Republic of Croatia (From 1991)- Republic of Serbian Krajina (1991-1995)
- United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (1996-1998)
Neighbouring Nations
References
- ↑ The CIA World Factbook
- The World Factbook (CIA)
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments (CIA)
- World Statesmen.org
- EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History