* Brethren of the Croatian Dragon, a Croatian historical society.

* Croatian Register of Shipping, an independent classification society working on the marine market

He accomplished the Croatian transition from a semifeudal legal and economic system to a modern civil society similar to those emerging in other countries in central Europe.

Others consider this to have been a necessary step in modernization and secularization of Croatian society.

Between 1923 and 1958, he was opera conductor in the Croatian National Theatre ( Hrvatsko narodno kazalište ), and leader of an academic musical society Mladost, and of the choir Vladimir Nazor.

After World War II, in 1945 he became a member of ULUH ( society of Croatian artists ).

The role of the academic and research community in every society, including also the Croatian society, is to design, introduce and implement new technologies.

Newspaper articles in which Jergovic polemically analyzed society in general as well as in particular, published in various Croatian newspapers, were collected in the book Naci bonton ( Zagreb: Durieux, 1998 ), while his nostalgic columns – memories of pre-war life from the Sarajevo magazine " Dani " – were collected in two books entitled Historijska čitanka I i II ( Zagreb-Sarajevo: Zoro, sv.

* Croatian entomological society

Category: Croatian society

The Croatian Fraternal Union (), the oldest and largest existing Croatian organization in North America, is a fraternal benefit society of the Croatian diaspora based out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

The Pontifical Croatian College of St. Jerome, in Italian the Pontificio Collegio Croato Di San Girolamo a Roma, is a Roman Catholic college, church and a society in the city of Rome intended for the schooling of Croatian clerics.

Some Croatian priests received scholarships from the society in 1907, and in 1911 several students enrolled at the college, but this was again interrupted in 1915 due to the First World War.

* Croatian Town Music a society of local music enthusiasts, founded in 1876.

Yet interestingly, it was in Vienna where Zajc became involved with the Croatian academic society Velebit and frequently met with young Croatian students.

His stories and novels often had strong satiric overtones and represent harsh criticism to injustice in Croatian society of his time.

Croatian society underwent major changes in the 10th century.

Classical musicians and compositions by Croatian composers are generally not well known worldwide despite having produced an interesting contribution over many centuries.

Some of the most renowned Croatian composers are Ivan Zajc, Vatroslav Lisinski, Franjo Dugan, Fortunat Pintarić, Luka Sorkočević, Antun Sorkočević, Ivan Mane Jarnović, Anđelko Klobučar, Boris Papandopulo, Ivo Malec, Stanko Horvat, Stjepan Šulek, Branimir Sakač, Igor Kuljerić, Ivo Josipović, Željko Brkanović, Berislav Šipuš, Ivan Božičević, Frano Parac, Marko Ruždjak, Branimir Krstić, Dubravko Detoni and Srđan Dedić.

Category: Croatian composers

Category: Croatian composers

Category: Croatian composers

Croatian composers for the tamburica include Franjo Ksaver Kuhač, Siniša Leopold and Julije Njikoš.

Category: Croatian composers

Category: Croatian film score composers

Josip Broz was born on 7 May 1892 in Kumrovec, in the northern Croatian region of Hrvatsko Zagorje in Austria-Hungary.

* The Croatian National Theatre ( disambiguation ) ( Hrvatsko narodno kazalište ), various theaters of the name

They established Hrvatsko dionicarsko drustvo ( Croatian Brokerage Society ) with the purpose of helping the government of Peru to plan, finance and build roads connecting two parts of the country, from the Andes to the Amazon basin.

The first performance was on November 2, 1935 at the Croatian National Theatre ( Hrvatsko narodno kazalište ) in Zagreb, and the opera has since become the most performed work of South Slavic music literature.

In 1347 Louis I took their estates around Bribir in the Hrvatsko Primorje hinterlands ( they used to be known as " princes of Bribir " Bribirski in Croatian ) and gave them the Zrin estate with Zrin Castle in the Croatian region of Banovina, south of the modern city of Petrinja and west of Hrvatska Kostajnica.

During the Independent State of Croatia ( 1941 – 1945 ), the university was known as the Croatian University ( Hrvatsko sveučilište ).

It was sometimes called Podunavska Krajina ( Danube Krajina ) by Serbs or Hrvatsko Podunavlje ( Croatian Danube ) by Croats, while the name often used for it between 1995 and 1998 was Syrmia-Baranja Oblast ( Serbian / Croatian: Sremsko-baranjska oblast / Srijemsko-baranjska oblast ).

Born to a family of Croatian peasants in Hrvatsko Zagorje, Kovačić made his way through law school to become an attorney.

However, due to a nearby Zagorje ob Savi municipality in Slovenia which bears the same name, the Croatian part is disambiguated by being called Hrvatsko zagorje, meaning " Croatian Zagorje ".

* 1945 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.

* 1671 – Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.

* 1941 – World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion.

* 1995 – The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm.

* Baltic Sea is used in English ; in the Baltic languages Latvian ( Baltijas jūra ) and Lithuanian ( Baltijos jūra ); in Latin ( Mare Balticum ) and the Romance languages French ( Mer Baltique ), Italian ( Mar Baltico ), Portuguese ( Mar Báltico ), Romanian ( Marea Baltică ) and Spanish ( Mar Báltico ); in Greek ( Βαλτική Θάλασσα ); in Albanian ( Deti Balltik ); in the Slavic languages Polish ( Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk ), Czech ( Baltské moře or Balt ), Croatian ( Baltičko more ), Slovenian ( Baltsko morje ), Bulgarian ( Baltijsko More ( Балтийско море ), Kashubian ( Bôłt ), Macedonian ( Балтичко Море / Baltičko More ), Ukrainian ( Балтійське море (" Baltijs ' ke More "), Belarusian ( Балтыйскае мора (" Baltyjskaje Mora "), Russian ( Балтийское море (" Baltiyskoye Morye ") and Serbian ( Балтичко море / Baltičko more ); in the Hungarian language ( Balti-tenger ); and also in Basque ( Itsaso Baltikoa )

The country has only of coastline, around the town of Neum in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, although surrounded by Croatian peninsulas it is possible to get to the middle of the Adriatic from Neum.

The border on the Una river between Hrvatska Kostajnica on the northern, Croatian side of the river, and Bosanska Kostajnica on the southern, Bosnian side, is also being discussed.

A river island between the two towns is under Croatian control, but is claimed by Bosnia.

The reign of Louis the Great ( 1342 – 1382 ) is considered the golden age of Croatian medieval history.

The Croatian language is the official language of Croatia, but minority languages are officially used in some local government units.

Croatian is declared as the native language by 96 % of the population.

Legislative power is vested in the Croatian Parliament ().

The President of the Republic () is the head of state and the commander in chief of the Croatian armed forces and is directly elected to serve a five-year term.

Industrial sector is responsible for 25 % of Croatia's GDP, with agriculture, forestry and fishing accounting for the remaining 5 % of Croatian GDP.

Croatian Railways ' plan to build their first high-speed railway service is progressing.

The line is intended to carry the increasing amount of goods that enter Europe, at the Croatian port of Rijeka and are then transported to destinations across central and eastern Europe.

This is because the largest part of the Croatian motorway and expressway system ( autoceste and brze ceste, resp.

A major reason for the motorway construction " mania " of the 2000s is a previous political halt of the major Croatian highway project, today's A1, in the 1970s and 1980s under former Yugoslavia.

Tourism is of major importance for the Croatian economy, and most tourists come to vacation in Croatia in their own cars.

Toll is charged on most Croatian motorways, and exceptions are the A11 motorway, Zagreb bypass and Rijeka bypass, as well as sections adjacent to border crossings ( except eastbound A3 ).

The most modern, and at the same time the longest Croatian tunnel, is also along the A1: the Mala Kapela Tunnel ( length 5, 780 m ), which passes through the Mala Kapela mountain range.

The Croatian parliament has passed a law that no bus should be older than 12 years-however, this decision is currently frozen because of the high cost for bus operators.

The largest seaport with the deepest channel to a port in the Adriatic is Port of Rijeka on the northern Croatian coast, followed by Ploče in southern Dalmatia.