a Slavic-speaking country on the Adriatic, part of the Balkan region. It was formerly part of Yugoslavia.

A republic of the former Yugoslavia and a historic Balkan entity. Its national religion has been Roman Catholicism since the time of the Holy Roman Empire. It has demonstrated territorial designs on Bosnia-Herzegovina during the current conflict. However, it has also been intermittently allied with the Bosnian Muslims in resistance to Serbian claims. During World War II Croatia's Ustasa regime exterminated Jews, Gypsies and between 250,000 and 750,000 Serbs. Serbian nationalists have alluded to this fact repeatedly during the current conflict. The use by the newly independent Croatia of the famous checkered flag and other symbols of the Ustasa regime have exacerbated this tension.

a republic in South-East Europe: includes the historical regions of Dalmatia, Istria, and Slavonia: formerly a part of Yugoslavia. Cap.: Zagreb, Serbo-Croatian, Hrvatska.

a republic in the western Balkans in south-central Europe in the eastern Adriatic coastal area; formerly part of the Habsburg monarchy and Yugoslavia; became independent in 1991

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October 29 1918 |established_event3 = Habsburgsas monarchs |established_date3 = from 1526 |established_event4 = Medieval kingdom |established_date4 = 925 |established_event5 = Medieval duchy |established_date5 = March 4 852 |established_event6 = Founded |established_date6 = |currency = Kuna (kn)  |currency_code = HRK |time_zone = CET |utc_offset = +1 |time_zone_DST = CEST |utc_offset_DST = +2 |cctld = .hr |calling_code = 385 |ISO_3166-1_alpha2 = HR |ISO_3166-1_alpha3 = CRO |ISO_3166-1_num = |vehicle_code = HR |alt_sport_code = CRO |aircraft_code = 9A |footnotes = 1 Also Italian in Istria County and languages of other national minorities (Serbian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, etc.) in residential municipalities of the national minorities. }} Croatia ( ), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country in Europe at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Central Europe and the Balkans. Its capital is Zagreb. Croatia shares land borders with Slovenia and Hungary to the north, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the south and east, and Montenegro to the south, as well as a sea border with Italy to the west.