Trends after 1965 ( like the fall of OZNA and UDBA chief Aleksandar Ranković from power in 1966 ), however, led to the Croatian Spring of 1970 – 71, when students in Zagreb organized demonstrations for greater civil liberties and greater Croatian autonomy.

Those and other changes, however, weren't very convincing to the Croatian electorate and SKH lost power to Croatian Democratic Union of Franjo Tuđman.

SKH-SDP however, quickly became the shadow of its former self – the majority of its membership, including the highest ranking officials, defected to HDZ, while the breakup of Yugoslavia, the rebellion of ethnic Serbs and the ensuing war which broke out in 1991 further radicalised the Croatian public.

While a democrat, Račan was, however, inefficient in running a government comprising six parties, the first coalition in modern Croatian history.

In the Croatian Parliament, however, it has been Damir Kajin who most frequently acted as the parties spokesperson and he headed the party list in the 2007 elections where the party gained 3 representatives.

At the 14th Extraordinary Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in January 1990, the Serbian-dominated assembly agreed to abolish the single-party system ; however, Slobodan Milošević, the head of the Serbian Party branch ( League of Communists of Serbia ) used his influence to block and vote-down all other proposals from the Croatian and Slovene party delegates.

The gusle however, is not a part of Croatian mainstream music and rarely receive airtime in the Croatian media.

The autonomous political organisations of the region were also suppressed by Tito ( along with others such as the Croatian Spring ); however, the Yugoslav constitutions of 1965 and 1974 did give substantial rights to national minorities including the Serbs in SR Croatia.

The Croatian Banate was to include 8 municipalities in Boka that had an ethnic Croat majority ; however, since those municipalities were too far away from the central core the Croat politicians demanded that the whole of the Bay of Kotor was included into the Banate of Croatia.

A train service operates north from Pula through to Slovenia, however the line remains disconnected from the rest of the Croatian Railways network.

It did them little good, however, as in the Round of 16 match at Bordeaux against the Croatian team, Davor Šuker scored a twice-taken penalty and Romania were out.

After beating KR Reykjavík they advanced to face the then Croatian League Champions HNK Hajduk Split, after the first leg in Croatia Shelbourne were trailiing 3 – 2, however thanks to a 2 – 0 victory at home Shelbourne advanced 4 – 3 on aggregate, Shelbourne became the first Irish club to reach the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League and managed to pull off one of the biggest upsets in European Competition's caused by an Irish Club.

There were, however, Serbian civilian deaths caused by the shelling of Knin by the Croatian Army during Operation Storm.

Today he is most remembered, however, as a well-known Croatian poet, writer, translator, and humanist.

The population however, declare their language as Croatian, probably along religious lines.

The purchase of a replacement missile system will be " reviewed ", however given current Croatian defence priorities the likelihood of such an expensive project being pursued is questionable.

Both parties, however, were not as successful as large opposition coalition which included Croatian Peasant Party, Croatian People's Party and Istrian Democratic Assembly.

This spot was, however, taken by Franjo Tuđman and his Croatian Democratic Union.

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.

Those efforts, however, backfired and the Croatian public gradually ceased to take Letica seriously.

In Slavic languages and in Chinese, this day's name is " fourth " ( Slovak štvrtok, Czech čtvrtek, Croatian and Bosnian četvrtak, Polish czwartek, Russian " четверг " četverg, Bulgarian " четвъртък ", Serbian " четвртак ", Macedonian " четврток ", Ukrainian " четвер " chetver, Slovene četrtek .).

" Spalatro " was a less used alternative form of " Spalato ", the Italian name for Croatian " Split ").

For example, some Serbian, Bulgarian, and Croatian dances share the same or similar dances, and sometimes even use the same name and music for those dances.

The name Glagolitic in Belarusian is глаголіца ( hłaholica ), Bulgarian, Macedonian and Russian глаголица ( glagolica ), Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian glagoljica / глагољица, Czech hlaholice, Polish głagolica, Slovene, Slovak hlaholika, and Ukrainian глаголиця ( hlaholyća ).

* 852 – Croatian Duke Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.

* Ante ( name ), Croatian form of the given name Anthony

Syldavia has a small coastline and two known towns on it: Douma, the seaplane service harbour, and Dbrnouk, whose name might be inspired by Croatian city of Dubrovnik, although the fisherman on the brochure's photo, described as its inhabitant, is certainly Muslim typical for south Montenegrin ( Ulcinj ) and Albanian coast.

The name of the city in Hungarian ( Bécs ), Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian ( Beč ) and Ottoman Turkish ( Beç ) appears to have a different, Slavonic origin, and originally referred to an Avar fort in the area.

The name maraschino refers to the marasca cherry of Croatian origin and the maraschino liqueur made from it, in which marasca cherries were crushed and sweetened.

The name comes from the Istria peninsula spanning over Croatia, Slovenia and Italy ( see also Croatian and Slovene varieties ).

Jakova (" Abbey of Saint James "), from which the town derives its name ( opatija means " abbey " in Croatian ) is located in Park Svetog Jakova or Saint James's Park.

; Estonia: Sült, similar to the German or Croatian dish ( the name is a loan, as well ), but usually less seasoned and made from higher quality meat.

* Veli, short name of Croatian village Veli Lošinj

The Croatian name for Gnocchi is ' njoki '.

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

In 1922, the Italian regime of Benito Mussolini declared the village of Susnieviza — which they renamed to Valdarsa after the Arsa Valley ( valle d ' Arsa ) region ( it has since reverted to the pre-Italian name but written in Croatian as Šušnjevica ) — to be the seat for the Istro-Romanians, with a designated school in the Istro-Romanian language.

However, the new exhibition was described as " postmodernist trash " by Efraim Zuroff, and criticized for the removal of all Ustaše killing instruments from the display and a lack of explanation of the ideology that led to the crimes committed there in the name of the Croatian people.

In sources in Croatian, Tamás Bakócz is also referred under the name Toma Bakač.

The Croatian name derives from the Roman name (), while the younger title ( meaning ) was created in the mediaeval Romanesque period.

Its name Osijek comes from the Croatian word " oseka " which means " ebb tide ".

All those names were adjusted variations to the original Croatian given name.