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	==Background==		==Background==
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			<caption><font size=+1>'''República Portuguesa'''</font></caption>
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			<tr><td align=center colspan=2 style=border-bottom:3px solid gray;><font size=-1>''National ]: None''</font>
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			<tr><td>]<br> - Total<br> - % water<td>]<br>92,391 ]<br>0.5%
			<tr><td>] <br> - Total (]) <br> - ]<td>]<br>10,066,253 <br>109/km²
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			<tr><td>]<td>.PT
			<tr><td>]<td>351
			<tr><td colspan=2 align=center>('''1''') Prior to ]: Portuguese ]
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	<i>From the ] 2000 and the U.S. Department of State website.</i>		<i>From the ] 2000 and the U.S. Department of State website.</i>

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Croatia (in Serbo-Croatian: Hrvatska) is a nation of the Balkan Peninsula. Its capital is Zagreb.

Background

In 1918, Austria-Hungary disintegrated after being on the losing side in WW1. Three of its peoples, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes, formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia became an 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.