croatian history

Nikola Šubić Zrinski – The Croat Who Stopped 100,000 Ottomans
September the 7th, 2026 – Turning the clock all the way back to the 7th of September 1566, and we ...

The Slavonian Banovac: The Croatian Town That Had Its Own Money
August the 2nd, 2026 – Few have heard of the Slavonian banovac, but there’s a small, totally overlooked Croatian town ...

Croatian Monuments – Five Spomeniks Worth Visiting
January the 13th, 2024 – Across the country, you’ll find some strange Croatian monuments with designs reminiscent of brutalism. Here ...

What’s The History Behind the Istrian Goat Symbol?
October the 29th, 2023 – Istria conjures up imagery of rolling hills coated in morning mist, magical hilltop towns, olive ...

Have You Ever Heard of Stećci?
October the 12th, 2023 – Gravestones are often intricate pieces of art commemorating the life lived by the person now ...

The Vegliot Dialect – The Krk Romance Language Extinct Since 1898
We’ve explored many of the dialects, subdialects and indeed languages in their own right as some linguists consider them to ...

Exploring Croatian – A Brief History of the Istro-Romanian Language
We’ve explored many of the dialects, subdialects and indeed languages in their own right as some linguists consider them to ...

Losinj Gets First Sculpture Dedicated to Wives of Croatian Seamen
As Morski writes, when every vessel set sail from the Port of Losinj for a long journey, it would dock in ...

Fifteen Years Pass Since Devastating Kornati Tragedy
A series of horrendous wildfires broke out between June the 1st and August the 8th, 2007, and the period is ...






