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The National Federation of Croatian Americans Cultural Foundation was founded in 1993 in Chicago [33] as a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the interest of the Croatian people - embodying heritage of culture and language, integrity in human rights and equality in self-determination, advancing economic development, and freedom from ...
Renee Ellmers – U.S. Representative (R-NC; 2011–2017); mother of partial Croatian descent; Frank Ivancie – Portland City Council; Mayor of Portland, Oregon (1980–1985) (Democrat) John Kasich – former member of U.S. House of Representatives (Ohio) [4] and Governor of Ohio from 2011 to 2019 (Republican); mother of Croatian descent
Croats stopped the Ottoman advance in Croatia at the battle of Sisak in 1593, 100 years after the defeat at Krbava field, and the short Long Turkish War ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok in 1606, after which Croatian classes tried unsuccessfully to have their territory on the Military Frontier restored to rule by the Croatian Ban, managing ...
The definition of Croatian ethnogenesis begins with the definition of ethnicity, [1] according to which an ethnic group is a socially defined category of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural or other experience, and which shows a certain durability over the long period term of time. [2]
This period of history is considered to be one of the direst for the people living in Croatia. Baroque poet Pavao Ritter Vitezović subsequently described this period of Croatian history as "two centuries of weeping Croatia". Armies of Croatian nobility fought numerous battles to counter the Ottoman akinji and martolos raids. [89]
The Croatian Institute of History (Croatian: Hrvatski institut za povijest), abbreviated as HIP, [2] is a public, non-profit scientific research institute in the field of history of Croatia. [3] The institute was established in 1961 under the name of the Institute for the History of the Workers' Movement in Croatia. [ 1 ]
The Croatian diaspora outside Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina amounts to close to a million elsewhere in Europe, and to about 1.7 million overseas. The largest overseas community is reported from the United States at 1,200,000, Chile at 400,000, and Argentina with 250,000 people. [5] In Western Europe, the largest group is found in Germany.
Later, Ferdo Šišić published a three-volume set Hrvatska povijest (History of Croatia) from 1906 to 1913. [7] Šišić incorporated Rački's ideas in History of the Croats in the Age of Croat rulers (1925) which provided the groundwork for subsequent historiography and became "reified scholarly knowledge for generations to come". [8]