Lee County and Her Forebears.

Lee County and Her Forebears.

Lee County and Her Forebears.

Lee County and Her Forebears.

" Mahan's Forebears: The Debate over Maritime Strategy, 1868 – 1883.

Lee County and Her Forebears.

Lee County and Her Forebears.

Lee County and Her Forebears.

Lee County and Her Forebears.

In order to deviate from their ideological theories for strategic reasons by forging alliances with Croatia ( a puppet state recently created after the Invasion of Yugoslavia ) and Bulgaria, the Croats were officially described as " more Germanic than Slav ", a notion supported by Croatia's fascist dictator Ante Pavelić who maintained that the Croatians were descendants of the ancient Goths and " had the Panslav idea forced upon them as something artificial ".

Since 1991, Croatia's death rate has continuously exceeded its birth rate ; the natural growth rate of the population is currently negative.

The counties cover or 22. 2 % of Croatia, inhabited by 806, 192 — 18. 8 % of Croatia's population.

At the time, Serbs comprised about 11 % of Croatia's population, forming a majority in a strip of land known as the " Krajina " or Military Frontier along the Croatian-Bosnian border.

The county's population is 200, 936 ( accounting for 4. 5 % of the total Croatia's population ), of which 129, 000 people live in the coastal area, 21, 000 on islands and 50, 000 in the County's inland.

At the time, Serbs comprised about 12. 2 % of Croatia's population: 581, 663 people declared themselves Serbs in the census of 1991.

For the near future there is a plan to cover Croatia's far south territory and western part of Montenegro as it is already done over Western, Central and Eastern Herzegovina Counties in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina with over 1 million inhabitants over there.

As time went by and Ivo Sanader's policies became less popular, and there were apparent setbacks for Croatia's prospects for entry into the EU, so Glavaš began to publicly distance himself from Sanader.

Ivan Mažuranić (; 11 August 1814 – 4 August 1890 ) was a Croatian poet, linguist and politician — probably the most important figure in Croatia's cultural life in the mid-19th century.

Trakošćan was built in the 13th century within Croatia's northwestern fortification system, as a rather small observation fortress for monitoring the road from Ptuj to Bednja Valley.

In more than quarter of century Gregurević usually played rural bullies and arrogant nouveau riche and became one of Croatia's best known and most dependable character actors.

The January 2000 election win and the defeat of the ruling HDZ was seen as a turning point as it marked the first transition of power in Croatia's young democracy and upon coming into power Račan's government was seen as the country's first staunchly pro-Western government following a decade of the " authoritarian and nationalist rule " of late President Franjo Tuđman.

Croatia's moves towards independence following the election of the President Franjo Tuđman were strongly opposed to the partitioning of their country by their Serbian minority, which was supported both politically and militarily by the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serbia under President Slobodan Milošević.

He went on to appear in all of Croatia's three matches at the UEFA Euro 2004 finals, and kept his place as the national team's first-choice goalkeeper over the following 18 months.

It was a transitional currency introduced following Croatia's declaration of independence.

In return, he promised to maintain Croatia as a separate kingdom, not to settle Croatia with Hungarians, to guarantee Croatia's self-governance under a ban ( royal governor ), and to respect all the rights, laws and privileges of the Croatian Kingdom.

Such people are homosexuals because of sexual contacts with numerous partners, drug addicts (..) and prostitutes ” to be discriminatory and in violation of Croatia's obligations under the European Social Charter.

In return, he promised to maintain Croatia as a separate kingdom, not to settle Croatia with Hungarians, to guarantee Croatia's self-governance under a ban ( royal governor ), and to respect all the rights, laws and privileges of the Croatian Kingdom.

The European Commission has proposed to assist Croatia's efforts to join the European Union with 245 million euros from PHARE, ISPA and SAPARD aid programs over the course of 2005 and 2006.

Croatia's entry attracted objections from the Norwegian delegation, due to synthesised male vocals being used on the backing track of Doris Dragović's entry.

His nickname, Cro Cop, short for " Croatian Cop ", comes from his membership in the Lučko Anti-Terrorist Unit, Croatia's elite Police Special Forces tactical unit.

At the end of November 1995, he became Head of the President of Croatia's office and general secretary of the Croatian National Security and Defence Council ( VONS ) after Hrvoje Šarinić was released from his duty.

Ivica Račan, founder of SDP and Croatia's Prime Minister from January 2000 to December 2003.

The modern Croatian team was formed in 1990, shortly before Croatia's independence from Yugoslavia, and by 1993 had gained membership in FIFA and UEFA.

This was all helped, not just by the ( allegedly purposeful ) inadequacy of legal restrictions, but also by the apparently active support of the new Croatia's authorities, ultimately controlled by Tuđman from his strong presidential position.

However, numerous complications stalled the negotiating process, most notably during Slovenia's blockade of Croatia's EU accession from December 2008 until September 2009.

HNK Rijeka is a Croatian football club, from Rijeka on the Croatian coast, competing in Croatia's MAXtv Prva Liga.

Today, it is spoken almost entirely within Croatia's borders, apart from the Burgenland Croats in Austria and in Hungary.

Kawaguchi is a renowned penalty stopper, making two saves in the shootout against Jordan in the 2004 Asian Cup quarter final and also saving from Croatia's Darijo Srna in the 2006 World Cup.

He was flying from Bihać to Zagreb, Croatia's capital, on government business, and the 6 other people on the helicopter also died.

A Bosnian Croat emigreé to Canada, he rose to prominence in the Croat diaspora in North America, eventually becoming a close friend and associate to Franjo Tuđman, leader of the Croatian Democratic Union, a nationalist party seeking Croatia's independence from Yugoslavia.

He moved from Rovinj to Zagreb in 1991 to start his career, and quickly became one of Croatia's leading pop stars.

He refused to receive the Porin ( Croatia's equivalent to a Grammy ) for the album, as it was nominated for best alternative album and Urban believed his album to be a rock album, therefore, he considered he would be stealing a prize from real alternative artists.

In recent years high-quality semi-dry Silvanac zeleni from Orahovica has become one of Croatia's more popular whites.

Meanwhile, as a part of Croatia's dignitaries and clergy did not support Ladislaus ' claim, they elected nobleman Petar as King, who immediately deployed the military to defend Croatia's borders from Hungarian attack.

As a symbol of Croatia's national identity, Vukovar has become a place of pilgrimage for people from across Croatia who seek to evoke feelings of " vicarious insideness ", as Kruno Kardov described them, in the suffering endured during the country's war of independence.

Croatian officials accused Serbia's president Slobodan Milosevic of stage-managing the unrest in Croatia, hoping to intimidate Croatia's resolve to secede from the country unless Yugoslavia is transformed into a loose confederation.