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Croatia
Fact
Sheet :
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Area : 56,542
sq km
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Population : 4,493,312 (July 2007 est.)
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Capital : Zagreb
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Languages : Croatian
(96%)
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Currency : kuna
(HRK)
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Government type :
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presidential
/ parliamentary democracy
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Elements of History :
In
1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known
after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia
became a federal independent Communist state under the strong
hand of Marshal TITO. Although Croatia declared its independence
from Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic, but
often bitter, fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly
cleared from Croatian lands. Under UN supervision, the last
Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia
in 1998.
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Climate :
Mediterranean
and continental; continental climate predominant with hot
summers and cold winters; mild winters, dry summers along
coast
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