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.

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.

The majority of the Serbs who fled from the former Krajina have not returned due to fears of ethnic violence, discrimination and property repossession problems, and the Croatian government has yet to achieve the conditions for full reintegration.

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.

Recently, after so many years of waiting, the construction of this route has been realized, in addition to the extension of the A3 so it connects Zagreb to Croatian borders with both Serbia ( near Lipovac ) and Slovenia ( near Bregana ).

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.

Croatian foreign policy has focused on greater Euro-Atlantic integration, mainly entering the European Union and NATO.

Thanks to the consistent position of Austria during the meeting of EU foreign ministers, a long period of instability and the questioning of the determination of the Croatian government to surrender war criminals has ended successfully.

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.

The word has also spread to Turkish as pide, and Bulgarian, Croatian and Serbian as pita, Albanian as pite and Modern Hebrew pittāh.

Pittsburgh has one of the largest Italian communities in the nation, and also has the nation's fifth largest Ukrainian community and the largest Croatian community in the USA.

Risus itself has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, Danish, Dutch, Croatian, Czech, Polish, and Norwegian.

In the last decade, the Sardinian language has been legally recognized ( with Albanian, Catalan, German, Greek, Slovene, Croatian, French, Franco-Provençal, Friulian, Ladin, and Occitan ) by the Law 482-1999, yet its actual acknowledgement in the present-day life is hard.

The collection Sacrae cantiones ( Venice 1620 ) by Ivan Lukačić from Šibenik is valuable testimony of sacral music that was performed in Split, and is generally speaking, one of the most significant monuments of old Croatian music altogether.

It was first performed as the Croatian anthem in the same year, under the title " Lijepa naša ".

On 22 February 2008, he performed as an interval act at the semi-final of Dora 2008, the selection of the Croatian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Many schlagers () performed at Zagrebfest over the past five decades are an integral part of the Croatian and Yugoslav pop-music scene.

Not only was she a singer but also a co-author and song-writer of all the songs performed by Electro Team ; she won many important Croatian music awards.

It was first performed at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb ( then the Croatian State Theatre in Zagreb ) on June 13, 1942.

In 2008, the opera was fully performed for the first time in 62 years when it opened the 16th Zajc's Days festival at the Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl.

The decree in which the rest of Croatian and Slavonian Frontiers were incorporated into Croatian-Slavonian crownland was proclaimed on July 15, 1881, while incorporation was performed in 1882.

VISBOT performed at 320x240, the Croatian visual arts festival, and appeared in the Coded Cultures exhibition in the Museumsquartier in Vienna.

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.

Born of Croatian immigrants, in Detroit, Michigan, at the age of eleven he was signed by Warner Brothers Pictures, to be groomed as a child star, and he also performed on the radio on Station KFWB in Los Angeles, California.

This is one of only two performances of this work, that was performed in front of the Millvale Murals in the St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church.

Cost of program-70 million Croatian Kuna-according to the latest information the overhaul should have been performed in 2011.

On television, Gwozdz appeared with famed organist Diane Bish on The Joy of Music, and has performed concerti and recitals on radio for the Dame Myra Hess series ( Public Radio International ), Czech Radio-Prague, Croatian Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, and other networks.

Buzzcocks, Swedish indie rock act Mando Diao, Croatian electro-pop band Lollobrigida Girls and electro rockers zZz performed on the Fusion Stage.

Its main task is to decide on the conformity of laws with the Constitution and other regulations with the Constitution and laws as defined in Article 130 of the Croatian Constitution:

Nevertheless, since the late 1980s and the beginning of economic transition, Croatian economy experienced difficulties due to deindustrialization, war destruction and the loss of Yugoslav and Comecon markets.

The Slovene form grast is attested since 1177, and the Croatian kras since 1230 ..

In a series of high-level meetings since the latter half of 1998, Slovenia and Croatia have been engaged in settling bilateral differences, a process which accelerated after the death of Croatian President Franjo Tuđman in 1999.

The war in Croatia ended with a total Croatian victory with the Croats routing the forces of the Republic of Serbian Krajina and expelling an estimated 200, 000 Croatian Serbs from the country in the largest military offensive in Europe since the end of the Second World War.

* A nightingale is depicted on the reverse of the Croatian 1 kuna coin, minted since 1993.

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.

In addition, Austrian authorities saw all tricolours as basically nationalist and potentially revolutionary symbols, so Austrian provinces ( as the Empire itself ) were only allowed to use bicolours ( the only exception being the flag of the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia, since it was interpreted to be a combination of the Croatian and Slavonian bicolours ).

In the Wannsee Conference, Germany offered the Croatian government transportation of its Jews southwards, but questioned the importance of the offer, saying that: " the enactment of the final solution of the Jewish question is not crucial, since the key aspects of this problem were already solved by radical actions these governments took ".

Osijek has been connected with the Croatian republic's capital Zagreb and the previous federal capital Belgrade by a modern paved road since 1958.

Though the basic concepts of the Dayton Agreement began to appear in international talks since 1992, the negotiations were initiated following the unsuccessful previous peace efforts and arrangements, the August 1995 Croatian military Operation Storm and its aftermath, the government military offensive against the Republika Srpska, conducted in parallel with NATO's Operation Deliberate Force.

On 13 October 1997, the Croatian 1861 Law Party and the Bosnia-Herzegovina 1861 Law Party requested the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to annul several decisions and to confirm one decision of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and, more importantly, to review the constitutionality of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, since they alleged that the agreement violated the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina in a way that it undermined the integrity of the state and that it may cause the dissolution of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Bosnian language also contains a number of Germanisms not often heard in the Croatian or Serbian languages that have been in use since the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Oak leaves with acorns are depicted on the reverse of the Croatian 5 lipa coin, minted since 1993.

His book Razgovor ugodni naroda slovinskog became Croatian folk Bible which inspired numerous gusle players ever since.

In some South Slavic languages especially in Serbian, the word krajina refers primarily to border or borderland of a country, with established military defense, and secondarily to a region, area, or landscape ; but in medieval Croatian of Glagolitic texts the last is its primary earlier meaning and military role appeared since Turks.

However, since the late 1960s, because of discontent in Croatian intellectual circles, Croatian cultural workers started to refer to that language exclusively as ' Croatian literary language ', or sometimes ' Croatian or Serbian language ', as it was common before the Yugoslavia.

The red-white-blue tricolour has been used as the Croatian flag since 1848.

However, this school was virtually extinct by 1930s and since then Croatian linguists have been unanimous in re-affirmation of purist tradition.

Numerous representative Croatian linguistic works were published since the end of Communism in 1990, among them three voluminous monolingual dictionaries of contemporary Croatian.