Portal:Croatia
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The Republic of Croatia is a crescent-shaped country in Europe bordering the Mediterranean, Central Europe and the Balkans. Its capital is Zagreb. In recent history, it was a republic in the SFR Yugoslavia, but it achieved independence in 1991. It is a candidate for membership of the European Union.
Zagreb is the capital city of Croatia. The city's population was 973.667 in 2005. It is situated between the southern slopes of Medvednica mountain and the northern bank of the Sava river, it is 120 m above sea level, located at .
Its favourable geographic position in the southwestern part of the Pannonian Basin, which extends to the Alpine, Dinaric, Adriatic and Pannonic regions, provides an excellent connection for traffic between Central Europe and the Adriatic Sea.
The traffic position, concentration of industry, scientific and research institutions and industrial tradition underlie its leading economic position. Zagreb seats central state administrative bodies and almost all government ministries.
Plitvice Lakes, one of eight national parks of Croatia
...the word "cravat" comes from the French cravate, and many sources state that this is a corruption of "Croat" — Croatian "Hrvat"?
...that Marco Polo may have been born on the Croatian island of Korčula?
...in football World Cup 1962 Dražan Jerković scored four goals and was, with five more players, the top goalscorer, winning the World Cup Golden Boot?
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Janica Kostelić (born January 5, 1982 in Zagreb) is a female skier from Croatia, the best female skier in the world currently and one of the best female skiers of all times. She is the only woman to win four gold medals in alpine skiing at the Winter Olympic Games (in 2002 and 2006), and the only woman to win three alpine Olympic gold medals in one year (2002). She was World Cup champion in 2001 and 2003. On January 15, 2006 Kostelić became only the third woman in World Cup history (after Swede Pernilla Wiberg and Austrian Petra Kronberger) to win World Cup races in all of the sport's five disciplines. On February 5, 2006 Janica became the second female skier (after Petra Kronberger) to win all five disciplines in one season.
- Janica Kostelić comes 4th at Super-G in Åre and wins this year's Alpine skiing World Cup (March 16)
Croatian saints and the beatified
St. Leopold Mandić
Sv. Nikola Tavelić
Sv. Marko of Križevci
Bl. Augustin Kažotić
Bl. Ozana of Kotor
Bl. Jakov Zadranin
Bl. Gracija of Mulo
Bl. Julijan of Bale
Bl. Alojzije Stepinac
Bl. Ivan Merz
