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Between the two states, 186,633 Serbs live in Croatia with 57,900 Croats living in Serbia (as of 2011). [1] [2] Croatia has an embassy in Belgrade and a general consulate in Subotica. Serbia has an embassy in Zagreb and two general consulates – one in Rijeka and one in Vukovar. Croatia is a member of the European Union (EU) and NATO, while ...
The border between Croatia and Serbia in the area of the Danube is disputed, an important part of their broader diplomatic relations.While Serbia claims that the thalweg of the Danube valley and the centreline of the river represents the international border between the two countries, Croatia disagrees, claiming that the international border lies along the boundaries of the cadastral ...
On May 12, 1991, a referendum was held with over 99 percent of the vote supporting unification with Serbia. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] On 1 April 1991, it declared that it would secede from Croatia. [ 5 ] Afterwards the Krajina assembly declared that "the territory of the SAO Krajina is a constitutive part of the unified territory of the Republic of Serbia".
Vojvodina is a province of Serbia. According to the 1991 census, its population was 2,012,517. Serbs comprised 57.2%, Hungarians 16.9% of its population, or 1,151,353 and 430,946 members, respectively. Croats numbered 74,226 members or 3.7% of Vojvodina's population (down from 109,203 from the 1981 census), [14] [15] and 105,406 members in ...
Clockwise from top left: The central street of Dubrovnik, the Stradun, in ruins during the Siege of Dubrovnik; the damaged Vukovar water tower, a symbol of the early conflict, flying the Flag of Croatia; the Vukovar Memorial Cemetery; a Serbian T-55 tank destroyed on the road to Drniš; soldiers of the Croatian Army preparing to destroy a Serb tank; A destroyed Yugoslav People's Army tank
On May 12, 1991 a referendum was held with over 99 percent of the vote supporting unification with Serbia. [21] [22] On 1 April 1991, it declared that it would secede from Croatia. [23] Afterwards the Krajina assembly declared that "the territory of the SAO Krajina is a constitutive part of the unified territory of the Republic of Serbia". [21]
The Erdut Agreement (Serbo-Croatian: Erdutski sporazum / Ердутски споразум), officially the Basic Agreement on the Region of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium, is an agreement reached on 12 November 1995 between the authorities of the Republic of Croatia and the local Serb authorities of the Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia region on the peaceful ...
In 1918 Croatia and Vojvodina had much better economic situation than Central Serbia. [3] In 1920 only 20% of adults in Central Serbia were literate [4] compared to 88%, 52% and 36% in Slovenia, Croatia-Slavonia and Dalmatia respectively. [4] Their rate of literacy has been 2.5 times higher. Croatia had double more elementary schools than Serbia.