By the time he was six years old, Luka Modric had seen the horrors of war up-close. His grandfather had been shot in front of him and his family by Serbian rebels, who then set fire to their house in ...

Known as the land of a thousand islands, Croatia’s Dalmatia and Kvarner archipelagoes offer an abundance of coastal ...

Post-war Croatia 1996 - Croatia restores diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia. Croatia joins Council of Europe. 1997 - Tudjman re-elected as president. The EU decides not to invite Croatia to ...

Yugoslavia was first formed as a kingdom in 1918 and then recreated as a Socialist state in 1945 after the Axis powers were defeated in World War II. The constitution established six constituent ...

Croatia has the oldest population in the immediate region, meaning that despite amendments, the import of foreign labour is ...

1996 - Croatia restores diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia. Croatia joins Council of Europe. 1997 - Tudjman re-elected as president. 1998 - Croatia resumes control over the fourth UN area ...

There are many weapons kept in private homes in Croatia after the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said he was "horrified and dismayed." ...

Analysts, however, believe the core of his appeal is his fierce rejection of the conservative HDZ, the country’s strongest party, which has dominated the political scene since Croatia gained ...

1996 - Croatia restores diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia. Croatia joins Council of Europe. 1997 - Tudjman re-elected as president. 1998 - Croatia resumes control over the fourth UN area ...