The Croatian constitution was passed in December, 1990 categorizing Serbs as a minority group along with other ethnic groups.

Croatian constitution guarantees freedom of speech, but Croatian penal code prohibits and punishes anyone " who based on differences of race, religion, language, political or any other belief, wealth, birth, education, social status or other properties, gender, skin color, nationality or ethnicity violates basic human rights and freedoms recognized from international community ".

According to the Croatian constitution, the President of Croatia is the Commander-in-Chief of Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia.

In 1974, a new federal constitution was ratified that gave more autonomy to the individual republics, thereby basically fulfilling some of the goals of the Croatian Spring 1971 movement.

Clear ethnic conflict between the Yugoslav peoples only became prominent in the 20th century, beginning with tensions over the constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in the early 1920s and escalating into violence between Serbs and Croats in the late 1920s after the assassination of Croatian nationalist Stjepan Radić.

The Croatian constitution was passed in December 1990 putting Serbs in a minority category along with other ethnic groups such as Italians, Hungarians, and others.

The new constitution was ratified on 19 October 2007, declaring Montenegrin as the official language of Montenegro, as well as recognising Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian.

The party subsequently held a congress in Zagreb on December 8 where it was renamed to the Croatian Republican Peasant Party, and a republican platform for the new constitution was adopted.

Under the new constitution adopted in 1990, the Croatian Parliament was bicameral.

By the time EU accession negotiations were completed on 30 June 2010, Croatian legislation was fully harmonised with the Community acquis.

After description of the Austrian-Hungarian flags used on sea during 19th century on eastern Adriatic, and after a paragraph on national colours ( i. e. Croatian national tricolour based flags ) used as house flags and owner's signals on ships beside the A-H ensign, Isaić writes: " For river navigation the flag hoisting was solved with legislation of 1869 according to which each ship was to hoist its national flag.

# The right to buy earlier state-owned flats, under earlier legislation ( before peaceful reintegration of Croatian Podunavlje, when deadline for buying state-owned flats ended )

The Government of the Republic of Croatia exercises its executive powers in conformity with the Croatian Constitution and legislation enacted by the Croatian Parliament.

The Government of the Republic of Croatia exercises its executive powers in conformity with the Croatian Constitution and legislation enacted by the Croatian Parliament, the Sabor ().

Croatian legislation at the time stipulated that the mayor of Zagreb had the status equal to a county prefect ( župan ), and as such his appointment had to be confirmed by the President of Croatia.

It provides the only example of transition from Glagolitic of the rounded Macedonian type to the angular Croatian alphabet.

The Department of Applied Slavic Studies provides teaching of Slavic languages for all degree programmes of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ostrava and offers courses in the Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovak and Ukrainian languages.

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.

Supported by a research fellowship from Columbia University, for several years, Bartók and Ditta worked on a large collection of Serbian and Croatian folk songs in Columbia's libraries.

In 1867 the Dual Monarchy was created ; Croatian autonomy was restored in 1868 with the Croatian – Hungarian Settlement which was comparatively favourable for the Croatians, but still problematic because of issues such as the unresolved status of Rijeka.

The Croatian Peasant Party boycotted the government of the Serbian People's Radical Party throughout the period, except for a brief interlude between 1925 and 1927, when external Italian expansionism was at hand with her allies, Albania, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria that threatened Yugoslavia as a whole.

" And in the words of a prominent Croatian writer, Shlegel's death became the pretext for terror in all forms.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Foreign relations were severely affected by the government's hesitance and stalling of the extradition of Croatian general Janko Bobetko to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ), and inability to take general Ante Gotovina into custody for questioning by the Court.

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.

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

The archaic term Velja noć ( velmi: Old Slavic for " great "; noć: " night ") was used in Croatian while the term Velikden (" Great Day ") was used in Serbian.

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.

Nowadays, Glagolitic is used only for Church Slavic ( Croatian and Czech recensions ).

Šunka is Croatian word for ham.

Some national languages like Finnish, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian ( Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ) and Bulgarian have a very regular spelling system with a nearly one-to-one correspondence between letters and phonemes.

In 1992-1995, Serb militias fighting in Bosnia and Croatia used children as young as ten, as did the Croatian and Bosnian regular armies

It should be mentioned that the regular Croatian Army ( Domobrani ) also helped with their passive role and even by logistic support to the partisan units.

HNS currently forms a parliamentary club with 15 members in Croatian Parliament, 14 elected in regular districts and one representative elected on a national minority list, therefore are the third largest political party in Croatia.

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.

Jergović writes a column in the Serbian daily Politika, for Vreme magazine and a regular column in the Croatian daily Jutarnji list entitled Sumnjivo lice ( trans.

It is a state-owned company and its main mission is connecting Croatian islands to the mainland by operating regular passenger and cargo transport services.

The striker was a regular member of the Croatian national team in Euro 2004.

Živković was a regular for the Croatian national team, making 39 appearances and scoring twice.

After spending some time on loan at NK Croatia Sesvete, he became a regular starter in 2001 / 2002, helping Dinamo Zagreb win the Croatian Cup, scoring in the final against NK Varteks and being named Man of the Match.

During his time at Nantes he played only ten league matches for the club, but was a regular in the Croatian U19 and U21 sides.

In the following years Letica continued to appear in the Croatian media as a commentator, and became a regular columnist for Globus, a popular news magazine.

He made his debut for the Croatian team in their friendly match against Slovakia on 16 August 2000 in Bratislava, but subsequently made only one more appearance for the team over a timespan of more than four years before eventually becoming their regular member in 2005 by making six appearances in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying.

He went on to score his first goal for Croatia in their friendly match against Hong Kong at the 2006 Carlsberg Cup in Hong Kong and was then also selected to be part of the Croatian squad at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany, but played at the tournament for only four minutes of regular time in Croatia's second group match against Japan.