<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_VIII" id="mwIA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pope John VIII">Pope John VIII</a> gives blessings to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branimir_of_Croatia" id="mwIQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Branimir of Croatia">Branimir of Croatia</a> and to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia" id="mwIg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Croatia">Croatian</a> people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.<sup about="#mwt15" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_21#cite_note-1" id="mwIw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwJA">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt12" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFPreveden1962">Preveden, Francis Ralph (1962). <i id="mwCCw">A History of the Croatian People from Their Arrival on the Shores of the Adriatic to the Present Day: Prehistory and Early Period Until 1397 A.D</i>. New York: Philosophical Library. p.<span id="mwCC0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>58. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./OCLC_(identifier)" id="mwCC4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a><span id="mwCC8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/906081868" id="mwCDA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">906081868</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt12" class="Z3988" id="mwCDE" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=A+History+of+the+Croatian+People+from+Their+Arrival+on+the+Shores+of+the+Adriatic+to+the+Present+Day%3A+Prehistory+and+Early+Period+Until+1397+A.D&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=58&amp;rft.pub=Philosophical+Library&amp;rft.date=1962&amp;rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F906081868&amp;rft.aulast=Preveden&amp;rft.aufirst=Francis+Ralph&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+21"></span></span>