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About Croatia

Our history timeline looked something like this:
Around 400 BC
Greek colonies were founded on Adriatic islands

around 100 BC
Romans rule over the east coast of the Adriatic

305
Roman emperor Diocletian builts a palace in present day Split

around 620
Immigration of Croats from the north

until 925
Under Byzantine and Franconian sovereignty

925
Independent kingdom under King Tomislav

1102
Beginning of Hungarian, later Austro-Hungarian sovereignty; until 1918 the whole of Croatia belongs to the Habsburg monarchy.

1433
The beginning of the defence against the Turks, who through time occupy the larger part of Croatian territory

1699
Continental Croatia - under the rule of Habsburg
Adriatic coast and islands - under Venice
Dubrovnik Republic - remains completely independent

1866
Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer founds the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences, the first in southeast Europe

1918
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Istria and Zadar under Italian rule

1929
Kingdom of Yugoslavia

1941
German troops invade Yugoslavia

1941
Independent State of Croatia

1941-1943
Istria and some coastal areas annexed by Italy

1945
Federative Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia

1970/71
"The Croatian Spring": a national democratic mass movement suppressed by the Yugoslav Government

1990
Dr Franjo Tudjman becomes President of the Croat Republic.

1990
HDZ gains an absolute majority in the first free parliamentary elections

1990
Croatian Serbs in Knin start the armed conflict

1991
The Serbian Republic of Krajina declares itself independent

1991
Croatia declares its independence

1991-1995
War in Croatia

1991
Fall of Vukovar

1992
Recognition most EU states 15 January 1992, Serbs occupy and bombard Dubrovnik

1995
Operation Lightning - retaking Serbian-controlled Western Slavonia Missile bombardment of Zagreb by Serbs

1995
Operation Storm - retaking Serbian-controlled Krajina

1996
Agreement on normalizing relations between Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

1996
Admission of Croatia to the Council of Europe

1998
Complete reintegration of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja into Croatia

2000
Parliamentary elections Social Democratic leadership (six-party coalition)

2001
Signing of the Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU

2003
Croatia presents its application for membership of the European Union

About Split

 
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City Split
The story of Split is already 17 centuries old, dating to the time the Roman Emperor Diocletian decided to build his Palace right on the peninsula near the great Roman city Salona, where he wanted to spend the last years of his life. During these 1700 years the Palace slowly turned into a city, which to this day lures with its rich tradition, glorious history and beauty of its natural and cultural heritage.