- Croatia, officially republic of Croatia (in Croatian, Hrvatska), country of oriental Europe, situated in the peninsula of the Balkans, lined in the North by Slovenia and Hungary, in the East by Bosnia-Herzegovina and by Serbia and on the West by the Adriatic Sea. In the totality of the borders, Croatia covers a surface of 56 538 km2!; the capital is Zagreb. The ancient constituent republic of the federative socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia declared its independence on June 25, 1991. The refusal of the Serbian minorities of Croatia (in Slavonie and in Krajina) as well as Yugoslav federal authorities to accept accomplished fact was translated by a civil war which lives the Yugoslav popular army and the Serbs of Croatia to take, until 1995 , control about 28 p. 100 of the Croatian territory.
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