CROATIA

n. Republic of Croatia, country located in the Balkan area (formerly part of Yugoslavia)

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska ), is a country at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Central Europe, and the Balkans. Its capital is Zagreb. Croatia borders with Slovenia and Hungary to the north, Serbia to the northeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the east, Montenegro to the far southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to the south. Croatia is a candidate for membership of the European Union and NATO.
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Noun
1. a republic in the western Balkans in south-central Europe in the eastern Adriatic coastal area; formerly part of the Habsburg monarchy and Yugoslavia; became independent in 1991
(synonym) Republic of Croatia, Hrvatska
(hypernym) European country, European nation
(part-holonym) Balkan Peninsula, Balkans
(member-meronym) Croatian, Croat
(part-meronym) Dubrovnik, Ragusa

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Background 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. Map of Croatia More about Croatia: Geography People Government Economy Communications Transportation Military Transnational Issues

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