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Revision as of 10:42, 22 August 2002 by -- April (talk | contribs) (fix links)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Croatia is a nation of the Balkan Peninsula. Its capital is Zagreb.
Background: In 1918, 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.
From the CIA World Factbook 2000 and the U.S. Department of State website.