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    Croatia Introduction - 2004

    https://immigration-usa.com/wfb2004/croatia/croatia_introduction.html
    SOURCE: 2004 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK

      Background:
      The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. 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.


      NOTE: The information regarding Croatia on this page is re-published from the 2004 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Croatia Introduction 2004 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Croatia Introduction 2004 should be addressed to the CIA.

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