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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.
The Ustaše (often spelled Ustashe in English; singular Ustaša or Ustasha) was a Croatian organization placed in control of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers in 1941, which pursued Nazi policies.
After the Axis withdrew from Yugoslavia, the Ustaše was subsequently defeated and expelled by the communist Yugoslav partisans in 1945.
At the time of its founding in 1929, the Ustaše was a nationalist organization that sought to create an independent Croatian state. It was formed in an environment of political repression that culminated in the assassination of Croat political leader Stjepan Radic. When the Ustaše came to power in WWII, it also had military formations (Ustasha Army/Ustaška Vojnica) that later numbered some 76,000 strong at their peak in 1944. After the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s (see Yugoslav wars), there was a certain resurgence of Ustaše symbology coinciding with the ethnic hatred that remained after the wars. The Croatian government has sought to eliminate this phenomenon with the introduction of legislation banning Ustasha symbols and associated references.
Ustaše volunteers for the Waffen SS (Domobran Regiment) marching during a parade in the Independent State 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?
Ante Gotovina (born October 12, 1955, Island of Pašman, Yugoslavia, now Croatia) is a former lieutenant general (general pukovnik) of the Croatian Army who served in the 1991-1995 war in Croatia. He was indicted in 2001 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. The indictment accuses him of sanctioning war crimes under his command in 1995 during Operation Storm at the end of the Croatian War. After spending four years in hiding, he was captured in Tenerife on December 7, 2005.
Gotovina is married to Croatian Army colonel Dunja Zloić with whom he has a son Ante, born in 1997. Before his second marriage, he also had a romantic relationship with Croatian Radiotelevision reporter Vesna Karuza, with whom he had a daughter Ana, born in 1994. Gotovina also has another daughter from his first marriage with Columbian journalist Ximena before the war.
- ZAGREB -- Crimes following Operation Storm to enter 7th grade elementary school history textbooks.
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
