Central Intelligence Agency
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CIA World Factbook
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Croatia - 2017
https://theodora.com/wfbcurrent/croatia/index.html
The information regarding Croatia on this page is re-published from the 2017 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Croatia 2017 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Croatia 2017 should be addressed to the CIA.
EUROPE :: CROATIA
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/hr.html
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, along with a majority of Croatia's ethnic Serb population. Under UN supervision, the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998. The country joined NATO in April 2009 and the EU in July 2013.