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Croatian

Croatian \Cro*a"tian\ (kr?-?"shan), a. Of or pertaining to Croatia. -- n. A Croat.

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croatian

a. of or pertaining to Croatia, the Croatian people or their language n. an inhabitant of Croatia; a person of Croatian descent n. 1 A standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Croats. 2 (lb en historical) Serbo-Croatian in general, as spoken in Croatia.

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Croatian

Croatian may refer to:

  • Croatia
  • Croats, people from Croatia, or of Croatian descent
  • Citizens of Croatia, see demographics of Croatia
  • Croatian language
  • Croatian cuisine

Usage examples of "croatian".

Even in the 1960s the idea of the Croatian banovina of 1939 fascinated him, and he considered it an acceptable model for a future solution of the Yugoslav question.

Norwegians, Spanish Falangists, Finns, Ukrainian nationalists, Serbs, Croatians, Dalmatians, Montenegrans, Latvians, Esthonians, Lithuanians, Dutch, Flemings, Walloons, a few Swiss nationals, Bessarabians, Turks, even one or two Syrians have turned up.

The number of Bogomils, members of the dualistic Bosnian church, grew in Croatian coastal cities.

Traditional products of the Croatian karst hinterland -- livestock, leather, agricultural produce -- were exchanged for the artifacts of more developed societies -- jewellery, knives, Carolingian swords.

Pupils of the brothers Cyril and Methodius of Salonika brought to Croatia church rites in the Slav language and especially the Slav script which, in the Croatian lands, later developed into the Glagolitic script.

In future centuries Glagolitic literacy and literature became important in Croatian cultural life.

The first inscriptions in the Glagolitic script and the Croatian language were carved in the late eleventh century.

Croatian side the first group killing was committed on 13 September 1991 on the bridge across the Korana in Karlovac, where thirteen Serb prisoners were killed.

In addition to the Socialist papers already referred to, there are in our country hundreds of others in English, German, Bohemian, Polish, Jewish, Slovac, Slavonic, Danish, Italian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Lettish, Norwegian, Croatian, Russian, and Swedish.

Socialist Party, even as far back as 1913, published in the United States some 200 or more papers and periodicals in English, German, Bohemian, Polish, Jewish, Slovac, Slavonic, Danish, Italian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Lettish, Norwegian, Croatian, Russian and Swedish.

People like Dr Huber, however, had preached their gospel not to reasoning adults, but to already disturbed youth, and the result in widening ripples had been the Baader-Meinhof followers, the Palestinian Black September, The Irish Republican Army, the Argentinian ERP and The Japanese Red Army, with endless virulent offshoots among small groups like Croatians, South Moluccans, and Basques.

The agricultural districts and villages of the mid-eastern valleys of Europe are sending their strongest men and youths, nourished of good diet and in pure air, stolid and care-free, into that dim canyon-Servians, Croatians, Ruthenians, Lithuanians, Slovaks, with Italians, Poles, and Russian Jews.

So, too, were the multitude of Crusader-noblemen of assorted nationalitiesrenegade Englishmen, Irish, French, Flemings, Burgundians, Scandinavians, Portuguese and Spaniards, Savoyards, Italians, Dalmatians, Croatians, Greeks and Bulgars, even a few Turkish and Egyptian knightsand the handful of tightly disciplined, ebon-skinned, Ghanaian mercenaries whom Papal agents had found for him to hire.

Horse and rider appeared fo merge into one naked batch of muscle: not so much of a man or of a horse, but of a weapon, piercing and heartless, like the Croatian plain, upon which the threat of the Ottoman Turks, who in 1453 replaced the Byzantines at Constantinople , rose and fell.

Since the 1940s they've been quite bitter about the fact that Western support for a short time turned to Tito and the partisans and against Mikhailovich and his Chetniks and the Croatian anti-Communists, including the Ustasha, who were outright Nazis.