It has a 932 km border with Croatia to the north and southwest, a 312 km border with Serbia to the east, and a 215 km border with Montenegro to the southeast.

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.

Croatia has a universal health care system and in 2010, the nation spent 6. 9 % of its GDP on healthcare.

The government (), the main executive power of Croatia, is headed by the prime minister, who has four deputy prime ministers, three of whom also serve as government ministers.

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

The government (), the main executive power of Croatia, is headed by the prime minister, who has four deputies, three of whom also serve as government ministers.

Croatia has a stable market economy accompanied by a strong and stable currency, the Kuna.

Croatia has 68 airports, five of which are international.

The country also has several airlines, of which the most notable is Croatia Airlines.

This means that the country has an IASA Category 1 rating and that Croatian air carriers are authorized to establish direct flights from Croatia to the US.

From the time of Napoleon and building the Louisiana road, the road transport in Croatia has significantly improved, topping most European countries.

Croatia already has a considerable highway density for a country that still has to cope with the consequences of Communism and the recent war.

As of 2006, Croatia has of roads.

Zagreb has the largest and most modern bus terminal in Croatia.

Croatia has several large seaports.

The OSCE mission in Croatia has continued to monitor the return of refugees and is still recording civil rights violations.

Croatia has established diplomatic relations with 174 countries.

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.

Following their father's death, Andrew continuously conspired against his brother, King Emeric of Hungary who had to grant him the government of Croatia and Dalmatia.

According to the work De Administrando Imperio written by the 10th-century Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, the Croats had arrived in what is today Croatia in the early 7th century, however that claim is disputed and competing hypotheses date the event between the 6th and the 9th centuries.

In 1490 the estates of Croatia declined to recognize Vladislaus II until he had taken oath to respect their liberties, and insisted upon his erasing from the diploma certain phrases which seemed to reduce Croatia to the rank of a mere province.

Vladko Maček, who had succeeded Radić as leader of the Croatian Peasant Party, the largest political party in Croatia, was imprisoned, and members of a newly emerging insurgent movement, the Ustaše, went into exile.

The NDH had a program, formulated by Mile Budak, to purge Croatia of Serbs, by " killing one third, expelling the other third and assimilating the remaining third ".

By the same time, the Croatian Adriatic coast had taken shape as an internationally popular tourist destination, all coastal republics ( but mostly SR Croatia ) profited greatly from this, as tourist numbers reached levels still unsurpassed in modern Croatia.

The permanent population of Croatia at the 2011 census had reached 4. 29 million.

Between 1991 and 2003, the EBRD had directly invested a total of 1, 212, 039, 000 EUR into projects in Croatia.

A 5 – 1 victory over Croatia at Wembley ensured the team qualified for the final tournament with two games to spare, a feat that had never been achieved before.

Ribbentrop chose the Ustaša to rule Croatia, and had Edmund Veesenmayer successfully conclude talks in April 1941 with General Slavko Kvaternik of the Ustaša on having his party rule Croatia after the German invasion.

In order to deport foreign Jews living in the Reich, Ribbentrop then had Luther negotiate agreements with the governments of Romania, Slovakia, and Croatia to allow Jews holding citizenship of those states to be deported.

By January 1944, Germany had diplomatic relations with only a handful of countries: Argentina, Ireland, Vichy France, the Salo Republic in Italy, Occupied Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, the Holy See, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Thailand, Japan, and the Japanese puppet states of Manchukuo and the Wang Jingwei regime in China.

Each country with a major Templar presence ( France, England, Aragon, Portugal, Poitou, Apulia, Jerusalem, Tripoli, Antioch, Anjou, Hungary, and Croatia ) had a Master of the Order for the Templars in that region.

Suleiman's conquests had brought under the control of the Empire the major Muslim cities ( Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, Damascus, and Baghdad ), many Balkan provinces ( reaching present day Croatia and Austria ), and most of North Africa.

The Championship acted as an Olympic qualifier, and hosts Croatia, who had won the 1996 Olympics, needed to finish in the top five to qualify.

In the other group, Croatia, who won the other group, had not lost any of their first seven games, while Denmark also had four successive wins.

However, by the high middle ages Croatia had been acquired by the Hungarian Kingdom, and the Serbian state to the southeast was in a period of stagnation.

In January 2011 the German magazine Focus cited German interrogation records in connection with another investigation from 2008 as showing that the assassination had been carried out by an operative of the Yugoslavian UDBA who now lives in Zagreb, Croatia.

Out of all ex-Yugoslav states, at that time only Slovenia and Croatia had a tradition of organising Pride events, whereas the attempt to organize such an event in Belgrade, Serbia in 2001, ended in a bloody showdown between the police and the counter-protesters, with the participants heavily beaten up.

Nazi-sponsored Croatia had a notable Serb community, roughly two million strong, which the Croatian Ustaše sought to eliminate through genocide: In the Croats ' political programme it was explained that " ⅓ of the Serbs were to be killed, ⅓ were to be expelled and ⅓ were to be forcibly converted to Catholicism " ( see World War II persecution of Serbs ).

The official rail speed record in Croatia is.

After having enjoyed sales of almost 30, 000 ( this number cannot be confirmed as there is no system in Croatia to measure exact album sales, most figures are provided by record companies, therefore, there cannot be considered to be accurate ) for three Teen albums and after receiving the 2002 Porin prize, Claudia broke away from the Teens.

* Hit Records ( Croatia ), a record label based in Zagreb

The band's albums all officially became platinum although is no accurate system in Croatia to monitor number of record sales.

More recently, David Healy broke the record for goals scored in one Euro campaign, previously held by Davor Suker of Croatia, by scoring 13 times in Northern Ireland's attempt to qualify for Euro 2008.

In 1856 Spottiswoode travelled in eastern Russia, and in 1860 in Croatia and Hungary ; of the former expedition he has left a record, A Tarantasse Journey through Eastern Russia in the Autumn of 1856 ( London, 1857 ).

* The record holders for the most wins are Karl Molitor of Switzerland, who won six times between 1939 and 1947, and Ivica Kostelić of Croatia, who won the slalom race 4 times between 2002 and 2012, and the combined event twice, in 2011 and 2012.

In late October 1998, Zajec replaced Zlatko Kranjčar as manager at Dinamo Zagreb ( then known as Croatia Zagreb ), following Kranjčar's poor record in the UEFA Champions League group stage, where the team only managed to grab a single point in three matches ( drawing with Ajax at home, before losing to both Olympiacos and Porto on the road ).

In his third season, he was very inconsistent in his performances partly due to the lack of confidence after his mistake at the beginning of the season for England against Croatia, He never fully recovered and in that season Spurs had a poor record of keeping clean sheets, but managed a fifth place finish in the league.

Slovenia, which suffered least in the Yugoslav wars, is a member of EU and is widely considered to have a good human rights record and policy, Croatia is acceding state of the EU and is considered to have a good human rights, Republic of Macedonia and Montenegro have formed stable governments and have fair human rights records.

The previous record, of twelve goals in ten games, had been set by Davor Šuker of Croatia in 1996.

After 1992, for 16 years the Croatian football team had a proud unbeaten record at this stadium in any competitive match, however on 10 September 2008 ( two years after suffering a 2-0 defeat at the same venue ) England became the first team to beat Croatia in Zagreb, winning 4-1, ending a thirty match undefeated streak.

Croatia Records is the largest major record label in Croatia, based in Dubrava in Zagreb.

Croatia Records is the largest and most established record company in Croatia.

In 2007, as the leading Croatian record company, Croatia Records won the industry's Porin award for special contribution to Croatian discography.

Menart Records is a full-service record label with partner companies in Croatia and Serbia.

It was released in 1993 on the Croatia Records record label.

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It was released in 2001 on the Croatia Records record label.