Kroatia Istorija

Another side blog. Always found Croatian history to be interesting, so why not start a blog about it? I'll do my best to have correct information, if you see a mistake just say somthing and I'll do my best to fix it :)

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The remains of 136 newly-identified victims will be laid to rest in Srebrenica today, twenty years after the genocide took place. The search for the missing continues and the fight for justice goes on

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Remembrance and Restoration in Djakovo, Croatia

In 1941, the fascist Croatian state ordered the Jewish community of Osijek to set up a camp for deported Jewish women and children, mostly from Sarajevo. The community chose an old flour mill in Djakovo and established a camp there.

For the first four months of the camp’s operation, the camp was run by the local Jewish community, who did their best with extremely limited resources to make the place even close to livable. In March of 1942, however, the Ustaše, the Croatian fascist militia, took control of the camp. The mortality rate of the camp increased just as quickly as the conditions deteriorated.

Unlike in many other camps, the Jewish community was able to bury the women and children murdered at Djakovo in a proper Jewish cemetery. Local gravedigger Stephan Kolb kept meticulous records of the names, ages, and origins of every person he buried. He painted each one of them a gravemarker. 

The Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities of Bosnia and Herzegovina were almost completely destroyed by the Nazis and their collaborators, but the Djakovo cemetery remains.

Over the decades, the gravemarkers began to rust and fade, so the Jewish Historical Museum of Belgrade and the Jewish Community of Sarajevo started the Project for the Restoration of the Cemetery of the Victims of the Djakovo Concentration Camp to restore the graves and replace the gravemarkers. Five of the original gravemarkers were donated to Yad Vashem.

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Last Battle Of World War II In Europe Fought In Odzak/Croatia

May 2015 has been the month during which the world remembered the 70th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) - World War II victories, defeats, victims and heroes. It was on 8 May 1945 that the All...

The Battle for Odzak lasted sixteen days and ended on 25 May 1945. Besides using the tactics of exhausting the Croatian defenders the “Yugoslav’ army Partisans brought in airplanes. The psychological effects of using powerful and destructive weapons had a significant effect of the morale of Croatian defenders and on the civilians. Tanks were introduced. Bombing ensued all day long, incessantly on 24 May 1945. On the other side of Bosna River the civilians were asking the Croatian soldiers to surrender, that nothing would happen to them. After surrender they were placed in stables at nearby Garevac, which were prepared for such an eventuality in advance. Garevac had already become a centre of horrendous Serb brutality against Croats: given that by end of 1944 they did not manage to take Tuzla, Serb Chetniks on Draza Mihajlovic order attacked Modrica and Garevac. They were severely defeated and then decided to no longer attack the Croatian military positions but instead attack whole Croatian villages in the area, including civilians in them. Murder and rape of Croatian women and children ran rampant. Many Serbs were members of Tito’s Partisans who attacked Odzak.

Seriously you have to read the comments on these articles since some of them can be SO INFORMATIVE it’s fascinating

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As a result of the previous deaths of three family members on a Tuesday, Alexander refused to undertake any public functions on that day of the week. On Tuesday, 9 October 1934, however, he had no choice, as he was arriving in Marseilles to start a state visit to France, to strengthen the two countries’ alliance in the Little Entente.

While Alexander was being slowly driven in a car through the streets along with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, a gunman —  Vlado Černozemski, stepped from the street and shot the King twice and the chauffeur with a Mauser C96 semiautomatic pistol.

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25 years ago today (13.05.1990), a kick that represented a generation. Dinamo Zagreb youngster Zvonimir Boban attacks a policeman who was beating a prone Dinamo fan with his truncheon. Though not officially, many put this moment down as the trigger that started the Yugoslavian war, as the Croatians of Dinamo fought with Crvena Zvezda fans from Serbia. Yugoslavia would never be united again #dinamozagreb #boban #crvenazvezda #redstar #belgrade #beograd #zagreb #croatia #yugoslavia #serbia #chorwacja #historia #football #hooligans #hrvatska #piłkanożna #kibice #kroatien #croacia #history

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Map of the territories claimed as “irredenti” in the 1930s. In green: Nice, Ticino and Dalmatia; in red: Malta; in violet: Corsica.Savoy and Corfù were also later claimed.

The territories of Corsica, Nice, and Savoy were claimed by irredentists. During the period of Risorgimento in 1860 to 1861, Prime Minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour who was leading the Risorgimento effort, faced the view of French Emperor Napoleon III who indicated that France would support militarily the Italian unification provided that France was given Nice and Savoy that were held by Piedmont-Sardinia, as France did not want a powerful state having control of the passages of the Alps.

As a result, Piedmont-Sardinia was pressured to concede Nice and Savoy to France in exchange for France accepting and sending troops to help the unification of Italy.

These included Trentino and Trieste, but also multilingual and multiethnic areas within the northern Italian region encompassed by the Alps, with German, Italian, Slovene, Croatian, Ladin and Istro-Romanian population such as South Tyrol, a part of Istria, Gorizia and Gradisca, and part of Dalmatia. The claims were extended later to the city of Fiume, Corsica, the island of Malta, the County of Nice, and Italian Switzerland.

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Topusko, Croatia 1995 (v)

War ruined building

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U Vukovaru dodijeljeno priznanje "Junak Domovinskog rata" - Radio Banovina

Vukovarskom dragovoljcu i ocu dvojice poginulih hrvatskih branitelja Marijanu Živkoviću u utorak je na prigodnoj svečanosti u Ružičkinoj kući u Vukovaru dodijeljeno priznanje “Junak Domovinskoga rata”, koje dodjeljuju Udruga hrvatskih branitelja Domovinskog rata (UHBDR) 91. i Udruga policije vukovarskih branitelja Domovinskog rata, u suradnji s drugim udrugama. “Ovim priznanjem želimo još jednom podsjetiti na ljude

Article is in Croatian but they talk about how they gave Marijan Zivkovic the Hero Of The Homeland War award by the association of Croatian War Veterans (ACWV/UHBDR) and Association of Police in Vukovar, and other organizations. 

"With this recognition, we would like to once again remind people like Marijan Zivkovic, who were the first when he had to, to all those who gave their lives for a free, autonomous and independent Croatian state," said President UHBDR 91 Pavkovic

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Croatian armoured hussar, 1580-1590

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Lipik and Pakrac

Lipik (first 3 pictures) and Pakrac (4 last pictures) are two towns located in the region of Western Slavonija, Croatia, and were heavily damaged when the Independence War of Croatia took place between 1991 and 1995 (it was mostly finished in 1992, although some intermitent battles took place until 1995 until Croatia achieve its goals and proclamed victory).

Croatia wanted independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and Serbs wouldnt let them go; that was seen as an attempt to form a “Greater Serbia”, including those parts of Croatia were Serb population was living, and also with the willing to conquer as much of Croatia as possible. Although the war ended with total Croatian victory, big part of Croatia was devastated, 20.000 people were killed, about 25% of their economy destroyed, US$37 billion in damaged infrastructure and some regions still hasn’t recovered from the war.

Looking at the holes in the buildings and the scars from shelling, left a big impression on me. Everybody knows about that war, how terrible was to see tanks breaking down the streets and buildings and people dying of hunger. The world looked at it but did nothing. Now, walking down the streets of towns like these, makes me think. Fuck nationalisms, I am a citizen of the world.

                                                                  Lipik and Pakrac, January 2015

Lipik and Pakrac

Lipik (3 primeras fotos) y Pakrac (4 últimas fotos) son dos pueblos que se encuentran en la parte oeste de la región de Eslavonia, en Croacia. Estos dos pueblos fueron fuertemente atacados durante la Guerra para la Independencia de Croacia, que ocurrió entre 1991 y 1995 (casi terminada en 1992, aunque algunas batallas intermitentes aún tuvieron lugar hasta 1995, cuando la victoria de Croacia fue oficialmente declarada)

Croacia quiso independizarse de la República Socialista Federal de Yugoslavia, pero los serbios no quisieron que eso ocurriera; más tarde, eso se vio como un intento para formar una “Gran Serbia”, incluyendo esas partes de Croacia donde población serbia vivía, y también para conquistar la mayor parte posible de Croacia. Aunque la guerra terminó favorablemente para Croacia, 20.000 personas murieron, aproximadamente un 25% de su economía fue destruida (37 billones de dólares es el cálculo que se atribuye a daños en infraestructura), y algunas regiones aún no se han recuperado de la guerra.

Ver los parches y los agujeros en los edificios me dejó personalmente impactado. Todo el mundo (o almenos mi generación para adelante) recuerda imágenes de esa guerra… qué terrible era ver tanques circulando por las calles y gente muriendo de hambre. Y cómo el mundo miraba y no hacía nada. Ahora, paseando por esas calles 20 años después y viendo las cicatrices que la guerra dejó, me da que pensar. A la mierda con los nacionalismos, o almenos no a este precio. “Ciudadano del mundo”, así es como me siento hoy.

                                                                   Lipik y Pakrac, Enero de 2015

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River Cetina. The river, sourced from a karst spring, has its origins in Dinara, a mountain located on the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, having two major peaks called Troglav (meaning “three-headed” in Croatian) and Dinara, which happens to be the highest peak of Croatia and its shape looks like a stone-made human head.

The river flows into the Adriatic Sea, in the city of Omiš, Croatia, and has been essential for the development of the Balkans and a notable part of Europe. Besides from being the main route for inhabitants to go from the Croatian coast to hinterland and vice-versa, the river has showed significant importance as to the tourism matter in the country, enabling the practice of rafting in its basin.

As for its main inhabitants, the area the river takes place in is highly associated to the Dalmatea, known as an ancient tribe that resided in the core of what would later become Dalmatia, the eastern coast of Croatia.

Later on, the Cetina Valley and the river itself became a frontier between the Slavic and Late Roman power. Eventually, though, the area of Sinj, flowed by the river, emerged as the centre of Slavic power and was established as the heartland of the Early Croatian State.

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HISTORY MEME || [1] War ↛ The Croatian War of Independence (1991-1995)

The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) — and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) and local Serb forces, with the JNA ending its combat operations in Croatia by 1992. In Croatia, the war is primarily referred to as the Homeland War  and also as the Greater-Serbian aggression. In Serbian sources, War in Croatia is the most commonly used term.

Croatia aimed to leave Yugoslavia as a sovereign country, while the Serbs, supported by Serbia, opposed the secession and wanted Croatia to remain a part of Yugoslavia. The Serbs effectively sought a new Serb state with new boundaries in areas of Croatia with a Serb majority or significant minority, and attempted to conquer as much of Croatia as possible. The goal was primarily to remain in the same state with the rest of the Serbian nation, which was seen as an attempt to form a “Greater Serbia”. In 2007, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) returned a guilty verdict against Milan Martić, one of the Serb leaders in Croatia, stating that he colluded with Slobodan Milošević and others to create a “unified Serbian state”. Between 2008 and 2012, the ICTY had also prosecuted Croatian generals Ante Gotovina, Mladen Markač and Ivan Čermak for alleged involvement in the crimes related to Operation Storm, but all three were ultimately acquitted.

At the beginning of the war, the JNA tried to forcefully keep Croatia within Yugoslavia by occupying the whole of Croatia. After they failed to do this, Serbian forces established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK) within Croatia. After the ceasefire of January 1992 and international recognition of the Republic of Croatia as a sovereign state, the front lines were entrenched, United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) was deployed, and combat became largely intermittent in the following three years. During that time, the RSK encompassed 13,913 square kilometers (5,372 sq mi), more than a quarter of Croatia. In 1995, Croatia launched two major offensives known as Operation Flash and Operation Storm, which would effectively end the war in its favor. The remaining United Nations Transitional Authority for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (UNTAES) zone was peacefully reintegrated into Croatia by 1998.

The war ended with a total Croatian victory, as it achieved the goals it had declared at the beginning of the war: independence and preservation of its borders. However, much of Croatia was devastated, with estimates ranging from 21–25% of its economy destroyed and an estimated USD $37 billion in damaged infrastructure, lost output, and refugee-related costs. The total number of deaths on both sides was around 20,000, and there were refugees displaced on both sides. While Croatia and Serbia progressively cooperated more with each other on all levels, some tension still remains because of verdicts by the ICTY and lawsuits filed against each other.

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Michael Palaich interviews WWII British officers as they relate their involvement in forced repatriations of Croat men, women and children to Tito and his communist henchmen and witnessing the subsequent murders of those repatriated, part of Bleiburg tragedy

I've made a post about this before (on my main blog). Short answer of what is the Bleiburg Massacre is that Croats, and other minorities in Yugoslavia were trying to escape Yugoslavia to Bleiburg, Austria for refuge. But When they got into Austria British troops forced thousands of people to go back, where the Yugoslav People's Army was coming after them to kill them. 

I felt inclined to post something about this because my mother was talking about how a Facebook friend of hers had a status that said, in their Senior year of high school their History teacher told them that this event never happened. But it did. This is a 5 part documentary that talks to Brittish WWII soliders and their involvement with this horrible event. It's kind of a short video but I think it's totally worth it.

I must say as well, my aunt told me about a hole in she said it wasn't that big, but that hole was filled with dead bodies that the Serbs killed in WWII, they show this hole in the beginning of part 5. Its believed that 470 dead bodies of soldiers from NDH, pisoners, and nuns...This is located in Jazovka.

Never forget, Bog i Hrvat

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Pictures of St. Mark's Square in Zagreb, Croatia, during the inauguration of their new president, Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic, giving oath that she "pledhe[s] to serve all Croatian citizens"

Photographer: Davor Puklavec (v)

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Croatian Dog Legally Forbidden to Bark

Croats like pets, and some of their dog breeds became globally popular (we’re looking at you, Dalmatians). However, the recent development in Istrian village of Peroj shows a slightly different picture. As you will soon learn, the story is quite bizarre and includes a Croatian dog legally f…

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You don't seem to mention Jasenovac, an integral part of "kroatian istorija" as you call it lol

Nah, don't worry I will. 

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What Makes A Genocide? The International Court of Justice Rules on Croatia-Serbia Case

Tuesday, February 3, 2015 

(image via BBC)

The case of Serbia and Croatia’s claims of genocide against one another has come to a definitive ending, both granted absolvement from their alleged crimes. More below the cut.

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