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* The Una in the northwest part of Bosnia flows along the northern and western border of Bosnia and Croatia and through the Bosnian city of Bihać.

The Sava river flows through Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

Sava is making a natural border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia and towns like Brčko, Bosanski Šamac, Bosanska Gradiška lies on the river.

Sections of the Una river and villages at the base of Mount Plješevica are in Croatia, while some are in Bosnia, which causes an excessive number of border crossings on a single route and impedes any serious development in the region.

Recently Croatia has opted to build a bridge to the Pelješac peninsula to connect the Croatian mainland with the exclave but Bosnia and Herzegovina has protested that it will close their way to international waters ( although Croatian territory and territorial waters surround Bosnian-Herzegovinan ones completely ) and has suggested that the bridge must be higher than 55 meters for free passage of all types of ships.

The sport is also very popular on the eastern side of the Adriatic, especially in Slovenia ( where it is known as balinanje or colloquial playing boče or bale from Italian bocce or palle meaning balls ), Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Hercegovina ( in Serbo-Croatian known under the name of boćanje or simply playing boće ( colloquial also bućanje or playing balote ), originating in Italian boccie ).

** former Yugoslavia: Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro.

After Srijem left Croatia and Slavonia and joined Serbia together with Vojvodina, which was shortly followed by a referendum to join Bosnia and Herzegovina to Serbia, the People's Council ( Narodno vijeće ) of the state, guided by what was by that time a half a century long tradition of pan-Slavism and without sanction of the Croatian sabor, joined the Kingdom of Serbia into the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

This Croatia included a part of Bosnia ( region ), most of Herzegovina and the city of Dubrovnik and the surroundings.

The Yugoslav People's Army retreated from Croatia into Bosnia and Herzegovina where a new cycle of tensions were escalating: the Bosnian War was to start.

During 1992 and 1993, Croatia also handled an estimated 700, 000 refugees from Bosnia, mainly Bosnian Muslims.

From Croatia, there are many international bus routes to the neighboring countries ( Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia etc.

Discussions continue between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina on various sections of the border, the longest border with another country for each of these countries.

Sections of the Una river and villages at the base of Mount Plješevica are in Croatia, while some are in Bosnia, which causes an excessive number of border crossings on a single route and impedes any serious development in the region.

Recently Croatia has opted to build a bridge to the Pelješac peninsula to connect the Croatian mainland with the exclave but Bosnia and Herzegovina has protested that it will close their way to international waters ( although Croatian territory and territorial waters surround Bosnian-Herzegovinan ones completely ) and has suggested that the bridge must be higher than 55 meters for free passage of all types of ships.

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* Dialects in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia

Four ( Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia ) out of six Yugoslav republics declared independence and for most of them a violent war ensued, in some parts lasting until 1995.

It stretched from the Drilon River in modern Albania to Istria ( Croatia ) in the west and to the Sava River ( Bosnia and Herzegovina ) in the north.

The popularity of pršut has helped it spread to other regions of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other surrounding countries.

The wars in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina were largely about creating a new political framework of states, each of which would be ethnically and politically homogeneous.

* 1946 – Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics ( Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia ).

The Serbian Assembly declared " sovereignty and autonomy of the Serb people in Croatia ".

On 25 June 1991 the Parliament of Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia.

Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia on 8 October 1991, which lead to the breakup of Yugoslavia.

When Croatia declared independence in 1991, the only true motorways in the country were Zagreb – Karlovac ( the northernmost part of A1 ) and Zagreb-Slavonski Brod ( A3 ), the latter being part of the highway " Bratstvo i jedinstvo ".

Romania also declared its public support for Turkey and Croatia joining the European Union.

Yugoslavia's collapse began in 1991 when Slovenia, Croatia, and the Republic of Macedonia declared independence.

* The Yugoslav Wars ( 1991 – 1995 ) – The breakup of Yugoslavia beginning on 25 June 1991 after the republics of Croatia and Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia which was followed by the subsequent Yugoslav wars.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

* The republics of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia declared independence from Yugoslavia.

The Independent State of Croatia ( Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, or NDH ) was declared to be a member of the Axis on 10 April 1941 and joined the Tripartite Pact on June 15, 1941.

The Serbs in Croatia, intent on achieving independence from Croatia, left the Sabor and declared the autonomy of areas that would soon become the unrecognized Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ).

As tensions rose, Croatia declared independence in June 1991 ; however the declaration came into effect on 8 October 1991.

* two incumbents appointed by the kingdom in Fiume ( a former Austrian province ; now Rijeka, in Croatia ), after an extraordinary commissionary, in the 31 December 1920 declared, short-lived " Independent State of Fiume ", until the accession of its first President

14 December 1941 – Croatia declared war on the United States of America and Great Britain.

When Croatia declared its complete independence, he returned to Croatia and resigned from the Presidency.

After WWII it became a part of the SFR Yugoslavia until Croatia declared independence in 1991.

Shortly after the armistice with Italy in September 1943, Ante Pavelić declared that Tomislav II was no longer King of Croatia.

Since Croatia never declared a state of war during the breakup of Yugoslavia, this option has not been exercised in practice.

Babić's administration in Knin then announced the creation of a Serbian Autonomous District ( Српска аутономна област, САО, Srpska autonomna oblast, SAO ) of Krajina on December 21, 1990 and on April 1, 1991, declared that it would secede from Croatia to join Serbia.

Clashes between Krajina Serbs and Croatian security forces broke out almost immediately after Croatia declared independence, leaving dozens dead.