Croatia, One Of The Most Beautiful Regions In Europe Croatia is
a country in Central Europe between Slovenia, Hungary, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. It has an exit to the
Adriatic Sea. With the capital at Zagreb, Croatia, one of the
founding members of Yugoslavia gained its independence in 1991.
Croats arrived in Dalmatia and Pannonia in the seventh century.
Led by Croatian Princes, dukes since 852, Dalmatia, comprising
the territory of Pannonia, after a period of Byzantine and
Carolingian dominion, became a powerful independent kingdom in
924. In 1102 the Croats have become vassals of the king of
Hungary. In the fifteenth century Hungarian kingdom was hard hit
due to the expansion of the Ottoman, the Turks conquering Bosnia
and Herzegovina. At the same time, Dalmatia became mostly
Venetian. Dubrovnik, Byzantine and Venetian city-state in the
beginning, unlike other city-states of Dalmatia, gained its
independence, being known as the Republic of Dubrovnik. After
the Battle of Mohács in 1526 t