In 1991, Genscher raced to recognize the Republic of Croatia in the Croatian War of Independence shortly after the Serbian attack on Vukovar.

In 1967, when a group of Croatian intellectuals published the landmark " Declaration on the Status and Name of the Croatian Literary Language " Mesić publicly denounced it as a diversionary attack against the very foundations of Yugoslavia and called for its authors to be prosecuted by law.

After the second Srebrenica Massacre, there were concerns that there would be a repeat of the massacre in the Bihać pocket area, where the population of Bosniaks was four times larger than in Srebrenica and which was surrounded and under attack by Bosnian Serb and Croatian Serb forces, as well as by Bosnian Muslims who were allied with the Serbs.

At dawn on 4 August 1995, the attack began with 150, 000 Croatian Army troops amassed along 630 kilometres of front lines.

Austria's Croatian light infantry ( Grenzer ) played an important role in this ; harassing the regular Prussian infantry under Generals von Manstein and Tresckow, they provoked them into a premature attack.

In a counter attack, he allowed Croatian Goran Vlaovic to dribble the ball half the field without fouling him to stop the attack.

On 5 November 1991, the Serbian government accused Croatian forces of shelling the city twice, killing four people in what became the first attack on Serbian soil during the Yugoslav Wars.

Set before and during the Croatian attack on Grantville, this story revolves around the Catholic Church.

She refuses to take shelter during the Croatian attack, and dies in her front yard.

He was the first journalist to attack Croatian general Ante Gotovina with accusations of criminality ( Nacional 204.

The Croatian government launched an attack on JNA garrisons and arms depots throughout its territory on 14 September – an offensive dubbed the Battle of the Barracks.

This attack split the Croatian perimeter in half and divided the main group of defenders in the town centre from a smaller stronghold in Borovo Naselje.

They quickly attracted heavy criticism amplified by Serbian and Croatian propaganda, who considered their presence to be evidence of violent Islamic fundamentalism at the heart of Europe.

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.

This action was halted by international diplomacy but although the rebel Croatian Serbs brought reinforcements forward fairly quickly, the strength of the Croatian forces proved superior.

In the Croatian War of Independence, 1991, Varaždin suffered directly for only for a few days, because the huge Yugoslav People's Army base quickly surrendered, resulting in a minimal number of casualties, and providing weapons ( worth $ 600m ) for the Croatian army.

He advanced quickly through the ranks ( corporal in 1872, lieutenant in 1875 ) and became a commander in the Croatian Home Guard, an equivalent to the Hungarian Honvéd and the Austrian Landwehr, defensive troops of parts of the Danube Monarchy, in times of peace not belonging to the Imperial & Royal Army.

The Croatian public quickly rallied in support of Kosor against the hugely unpopular former prime minister, resulting in the highest support for any Prime Minister since polling began, topping at 77 % by the end of February.

Although the SDS won relatively few seats in 1990 elections, it quickly began to increase its power and Rašković was soon perceived as a leader of Croatian Serbs by Franjo Tuđman and his new government.

When they tried to trigger a revolt by taking command of the Croatian troops, they were quickly repulsed, and the revolt collapsed.

While many felt that Bassiouni would become the first prosecutor of the ICTY, failure to secure the prosecutor position was blocked by the United Kingdom and has been attributed in part to a perception that he would " move too quickly to charge Serb and possibly Croatian leaders with war crimes ".

It quickly took the lion's share of Croatian media market and became one of the most read newspapers in that country.

Founded in the 1970s under the name Dalmatinski magazin (" Dalmatian Magazine " in Croatian ), the band quickly began to make a mark on local pop music festivals with its songs influenced by Dalmatian folk music.

By that time, Kramarić had joined Croatian Social Liberal Party ( HSLS ) and quickly became one of its high-ranking-members.

Matoš is the central figure of Croatian modernism ( moderna ), a radical change in Croatian literature under European influences, as it quickly absorbed contemporary tendencies and styles such as Symbolism, modernism or impressionism, relying on French literary heritage from Baudelaire to Mallarmé, Barres and Huysmans.

* 92nd Motorised Regiment, with 54th Reconnaissance Battalion and a regimental group of the 2nd Croatian Light Infantry Brigade was to advance south-east from Bihać at 5am through the village of Vrtoče to capture Bosanski Petrovac as quickly as possible, destroy the Partisans in that location, and occupy the Partisan airfield and supply installations.

Because of that, Slobodni tjednik quickly began to promote hate speech and the most extreme forms of Croatian chauvinism, usually directed against ethnic Serb minority in Croatia.

Croatian units were quickly routed and fell back to Vukovar.

The JNA's 1st Guards Mechanised Brigade quickly reached the Vukovar barracks and lifted the Croatian siege of the facility.

The most recent significant migrations came as a result of the Croatian War of Independence when hundreds of thousands were displaced.

Croatian highways are widely regarded as being one of the most modern and safe in Europe.

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.

Ferry services to Italian cities of Venice, Ancona, Pescara and Bari from around a dozen of Croatian sea ports, most notably Rovinj, Rijeka, Zadar, Split, Korčula and Dubrovnik, is available on a daily or weekly basis.

The Hrvoje's Missal () from 1404 was written in Split, and it is considered one of the most beautiful Croatian Glagolitic books.

Although, the most important disputed issue with Croatia is Slovenian and Italian opposition to the proclamation of the Croatian Ecological and Fisheries Protection Zone ( Exclusive Economic Zone ) in the Adriatic sea.

Yugoslavia's communist ruler Joseph Broz Tito subdues the Croatian Spring movement and arrests its leaders, but does initiate major constitutional reform resulting in the 1974 Constitution which decentralized powers to the republics, gave them the official right to separate from Yugoslavia, and weakened the influence of Serbia ( Yugoslavia's largest and most populous constituent republic ) in the federation by granting significant powers to the Serbian autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina.

The most famous Croatian Carnival ( Croatian: " karneval ", also called " maškare ") is the Rijeka Carnival, during which the mayor of Rijeka hands over the keys to the city to the Carnival master (" meštar od karnevala ") and the spirit of the Carnival takes over completely.

He lived there for one year before his parents relocated to the Los Angeles Croatian neighborhood of San Pedro, where he remained for most of his childhood.

) by the Croatian linguist Kovačec revealed only 170 active speakers ( but those counted presumably are only those still residing in the original villages where the language was actively spoken, thereby excluding those who moved to larger towns in Istria ), most of them being bilingual ( or trilingual ), except for 27 children.

The most important of them are the Croatian Tambura Music Festival ( in May ), attended by tambura orchestras from all over Croatia and the Osijek Summer Nights ( during June, July and August ), a series of cultural and entertainment programs in the open, accompanied by excellent food and fairs.

In 2009, the city was awarded " The most beautiful city in Croatia " award, given annually by the Croatian National Tourist Board.

* Miroslav Kraljević ( 1885 – 1913 ), born in Gospić, family originally from Požega area, painter, among the founders of Croatian modern painting, created his most important works in Požega

Probably the most authentic Bosniak writers ( the so-called " Bosniak revival " at the turn of the 19th to 20th century ) wrote in an idiom that is closer to the Croatian standard than to the Serbian ( western Štokavian dialect, Ijekavian accent, Latin script ), but which possessed unmistakably recognizable Bosniak traits, primarily lexical ones.

However, after the war, idealist intellectuals gave way to politicians, and the most influential Croatian politicians opposed the new state right from the start.

In 1941, a superior at his monastery allegedly urged Filipović to distance himself from the Ustaša, an organisation of extremist Croatian nationalists installed by the Axis Powers in April 1941 to rule in the Independent State of Croatia ( ISC ), a puppet state embracing Bosnia-Hercegovina as well as most of Croatia.

There are several ethnic clubs in the area representing the various multicultural groups in Timmins, most notably ; the French Le Centre Culturel La Ronde, the Italian Porcupine Dante Club, the Croatian Society, the Polish White Eagle Hall, the Irish Canadian Club, the German Culture Club, the Chinese Club, the Ojibway & Cree Cultural Centre, the Timmins Multicultural Society as well as others.

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.

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.

" In 1959, vibraphone player Boško Petrović, who is likely the most famous Croatian jazz musician, founded the Zagreb Jazz Quartet.

Jazz has left its mark on the Croatian pop scene throughout the years, most notably in the works of Drago Diklić and occasionally Josipa Lisac.