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Duje Ćaleta-Car (born 1996), footballer, a part of the Croatia national team at the 2018 World Cup. Igor Cukrov (born 1984), singer, represented Croatia at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest alongside Andrea Šušnjara. Nikica Cukrov (born 1954), former footballer and manager. Ognjen Cvitan (born 1961), chess player. Maja Cvjetković (born 1985 ...
Pula (Croatian: ⓘ), also known as Pola [4] (Italian:; Venetian: Pola; Istriot: Puola; Slovene: Pulj; Hungarian: Póla), is the largest city in Istria County, Croatia, and the seventh-largest city in the country, situated at the southern tip of the Istrian peninsula in western Croatia, with a population of 52,220 in 2021. [3]
The Independent State of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian: Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH) was a World War II–era puppet state of Nazi Germany [8] [9] and Fascist Italy. It was established in parts of occupied Yugoslavia on 10 April 1941, after the invasion by the Axis powers .
Concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia on a map of all camps in Yugoslavia in World War II.. The Holocaust saw the genocide of Jews, Serbs and Romani within the Independent State of Croatia (Croatian: Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH), a fascist puppet state that existed during World War II, led by the Ustaše regime, which ruled an occupied area of Yugoslavia including most of ...
Pages in category "Croatian people of World War II" ... List of leaders of the Independent State of Croatia; A. Božidar Adžija; ... born 1912) Leon Geršković ...
Croatian people of World War II (7 C, 76 P) S. ... Pages in category "Croatia in World War II" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.
After the capitulation of Italy in the Second World War, The Yugoslav Partisans officially occupied the region, expelled the fascist authorities, and established the rule of the National Liberation Movement in Croatia which sought to incorporate Istra into the Croatian state. However, the Yugoslav executive was forced split Istria into two ...
After World War II Istria was assigned to Yugoslavia and many ethnic Italians (Istrian Italians) left in the Istrian–Dalmatian exodus. With the collapse of Communist Yugoslavia Istria became part of an independent Croatia and the region saw no fighting in the ensuing war. Today it is one of the most economically developed parts of Croatia.