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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
The Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian: Genocid nad Srbima u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj / Геноцид над Србима у Независној Држави Хрватској) was the systematic persecution and extermination of Serbs committed during World War II by the fascist Ustaše regime in the Nazi German puppet state known as the Independent ...
In July 2022, Croatia and Serbia entered a diplomatic dispute over Aleksandar Vučić's private trip to lay flowers at the memorial site of the World War II Jasenovac concentration camp, which the Croatian government blocked on the basis that such presidential visits need to be "part of arrangements between the two sides". The Serbian ...
The Independent State of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian: Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH) was a World War II–era puppet state of Nazi Germany [6] [7] and Fascist Italy. It was established in parts of occupied Yugoslavia on 10 April 1941, after the invasion by the Axis powers.
The guns were a mix of 76 mm and 85 mm Soviet World War II-era divisional guns. [36] In addition, an improvised armoured vehicle was supplied to the city. [37] Dubrovnik also received additional HV, Croatian Police and Croatian Defence Forces troops from other parts of Croatia. [38] [39] This brought the number of Croatian troops in Dubrovnik ...
Concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia on a map of all camps in Yugoslavia in World War II.. The Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia (Croatian: Holokaust u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj; Hebrew: השואה במדינת קרואטיה העצמאית) involved the genocide of Jews, Serbs and Romani within the Independent State of Croatia (Croatian: Nezavisna Država ...
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.
The Battle of Vukovar was an 87-day siege of Vukovar in eastern Croatia by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various paramilitary forces from Serbia, between August and November 1991. Before the Croatian War of Independence the Baroque town was a prosperous, mixed community of Croats , Serbs and other ethnic groups.