The 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment, often hailed as the first armed anti-fascist resistance unit in occupied Europe, was formed in Croatia, in the Brezovica forest near the town of Sisak.

The ZAVNOH, state anti-fascist council of people's liberation of Croatia, functioned since 1944 and formed an interim civil government.

In Croatia the Joint Council of Municipalities is to Croatians a sui generis council of municipalities ; being formed after international agreement, it has no similar example in the rest of the country.

The coat-of-arms of Celje was selected for the national arms immediately after World War I in 1918, when Slovenia together with Croatia and Serbia formed the original Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( later Yugoslavia ).

During the Yugoslav Wars, several Serbian Autonomous Oblasts were formed in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This music has gained popularity among mainstream audiences in coastal regions of Croatia, with newer klapas formed by younger generations fusing klapa vocals with other music styles, such as klapa Libar's metal cover of " Pusti da ti leut svira " and the pop / klapa song " Kako ću joj reć ' da varin " by klapa DVD-a Žrnovnica Sv.

Travertine has formed sixteen huge, natural dams in a valley in Croatia known as Plitvice Lakes National Park.

Kingdom of Slavonia was subsequently ( in 1868 ) joined with the Kingdom of Croatia into newly formed Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, which, following the 1868 Croatian – Hungarian Settlement, became an autonomous kingdom within the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary and Austria-Hungary.

Also the adjustment of relations with the Croats enabled Zadar merchants to trade with its rich agriculture hinterland where the Kingdom of Croatia had formed, and trade and political links with Zadar began to develop.

Within a few weeks, Benito Mussolini required the newly formed Nazi puppet-state, the so-called Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ) to hand over almost all of Dalmatia ( including Split ) to fascist Italy under the Treaty of Rome.

Political units formed during the war in Croatia in the 1990s:

When the Banovina of Croatia was formed, the šahovnica ( chequy gules and argent ) was retained as the official symbol.

When the Banovina of Croatia was formed, the šahovnica ( chequy gules and argent ) was retained as the official symbol.

In December 2006, a controversy arose when a video was published showing Mesić during a speech in Australia in the early 1990s, where he said that the Croats " won a victory on April 10th " ( when the fascist aligned Independent State of Croatia was formed ) " as well as in 1945 " ( when the communist anti-fascists prevailed and the Socialist Republic of Croatia was formed ), as well as that Croatia needed to apologize to no one for the Jasenovac concentration camp ( i. e. the WWII Holocaust against Serbs and Jews ).

Following the election, Račan became Prime Minister of Croatia and formed a six-party centre-left government with ministers from SDP, HSLS, the Croatian Peasants Party ( HSS ), the Liberal Party ( LS ), the Croatian People's Party ( HNS ), and the Istrian Democratic Assembly ( IDS ).

Unlike many Croatian political figures of Sanader's generation, he was not actively involved in politics in his younger years – neither as a member of the League of Communists of Croatia ( Croatia's party which formed the single bloc which governed Yugoslavia ), nor as a dissident in exile.

The People's Party in Croatia was originally formed in the 19th century during the period of Croatian romantic nationalism.

In 1939, the western part of Syrmia was included into the newly formed Banovina of Croatia.

The first recorded cuirassiers were formed as 100-strong regiments of Austrian kyrissers recruited from Croatia in 1484 to serve the future Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian.

A national Banovina of Croatia was created in 1939 out of the two Banates, as well as parts of the Zeta, Vrbas, Drina and Danube Banates.

On 23 January 1990 at its 14th Congress the Communist League of Yugoslavia voted to remove its monopoly on political power, but the same day effectively ceased to exist as a national party when the League of Communists of Slovenia walked out after Serbia's Slobodan Milošević blocked all their reformist proposals – the League of Communists of Croatia walked out soon after.

The HDZ's intentions were to secure independence for Croatia, contrary to the wishes of a part of the ethnic Serbs in the republic, and federal and national politicians in Belgrade.

The powers of the legislature include enactment and amendment of the constitution and laws ; adoption of the government budget, declarations of war and peace, defining national boundaries, calling referenda and elections, appointments and relief of officers, supervising the Government of Croatia and other holders of public powers responsible to the Sabor, and granting of amnesties.

Croatia has a three-tiered, independent judicial system governed by the Constitution of Croatia and national legislation enacted by the Sabor.

A key authoritarian element of fascism is its endorsement of a prime national leader, who is often known simply as the " Leader " or a similar title, such as Duce in Italian, Führer in German, Caudillo in Spanish, Poglavnik in Croatia, or Conducător in Romanian.

* In Croatia, Serbs are the largest national minority, scattered across the country.

is the national airline and flag carrier of the Republic of Croatia.

In Croatia, the Yugoslav idea is a shallow wreckage under which the Croatian national volcano boils ; only a subtle push is necessary to make it erupt.

A majority of the participating countries, thirteen out of twenty-three, chose to sing entirely or partly in English and only nine entirely in their respective national languages ; Lithuania, Spain, Croatia, Slovenia, Poland, France, Cyprus, Portugal and Turkey.

For the 2008 Summer Olympics Croatia men's national water polo team grew moustaches in honor of coach Ratko Rudić.

At the time when she first participated in Dora, the national finals for the Eurovision Song Contest, Claudia was only 12, but she was already an experienced band singer having performed all over Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Montenegro with the Teens-formerly known as Mići rokeri ( Little Rockers ).

In the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, each of the republics ( except the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ) had the right to its own national anthem, but only the Socialist Republic of Croatia had an anthem of its own, later joined by the Socialist Republic of Slovenia on the brink of the breakup of Yugoslavia.

In the course of the 1830s, as a reflection of such tendencies in Europe, the Illyrian Movement emerged in Croatia which assigned not only to literature but to music as well a particular socio-political role: the forming and guarding of national awareness including the struggle against Hungarization and Germanization.

" Lijepa naša domovino " (" Our Beautiful Homeland ") is the national anthem of Croatia.

In 1999, Dragović was chosen to represent Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999, after she won national election HRT Dora with her dramatic song " Marija Magdalena ", written by prominent Croatian songwriter Tonči Huljić.

This hints at least that the ships on rivers used national flags as opposed to the flag of the Dual Monarchy, and that this " national " is mean the flags of Croatia ( Hungary, Austria etc.

The Ustaše regime which had ruled Croatia during the World War II superimposed their ideological symbol, the letter " U " above or around the šahovnica ( upper left square white ) as the official national symbol during their rule.

The Ustashe regime which had ruled Croatia during the World War II superimposed their ideological symbol, the letter " U " above or around the šahovnica ( upper left square white ) as the official national symbol during their rule.

This is partly due to the geometric design of the shield which makes it appropriate for use in many graphic contexts ( e. g. the insignia of Croatia Airlines or the design of the shirt for the Croatia national football team ), and partly because the Pan-Slavic colours are present in many European flags.

With the collapse of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its institutions from 1991 to 1992, the issue of unity of the two republics remaining in the collapsing federation, Serbia, Montenegro, as well as Serb breakaway territories in Croatia and Bosnia that wished to remain united, became an issue.

Referendum can be called on any issue falling within competence of Parliament of Croatia or on any other issue which President of Croatia considers to be important for the independence, unity and existence of the Republic.

Eight governments have been formed by the Croatian Democratic Union, three by the Social Democratic Party of Croatia and one was a national unity government ( formed during the Croatian War of Independence's peak ).

Hence the lyrics Zadnja ruža Hrvatska ( meaning: Last Croatian Rose ) made the song very popular in Croatia, but also criticized in some parts of the rest of Yugoslavia due to ( perceived ) nationalist undertones, which were considered politically incorrect for the Yugoslav policy of brotherhood and unity.

Party's activity during War in Bosnia and Herzegovina ( 1992 – 1995 ) was marked by efforts of keeping unity and friendship of Croats and Bosniaks, its resistance against partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina between Republic of Croatia and FR Yugoslavia and devotion on unification of Croatian and Bosniak state.