On 26 August 1917, he shot down his second enemy aircraft, over Loque, and was given his second in the field award of the Silver Medal for Military Valor.
He is also the author of the Wall of Poetry (Zid od versi) at the central square in Selca, onto which plates of the wreathed poets (poetae oliveati) are mounted, with engraved year of the wreathing, name of the poet and a few verses carved into the Bračian marble.
Croatian Bol Ladies Open was the annual women's tennis tournament on the WTA Tour, on the Croatian island of Brač, in the small town of Bol.
The statement was accepted by commanders of these areas during a conference at Strmica near Knin a month later.
The term Dinaric comes from the name of a mountain called Dinara, on the border of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dragutin Lesar was born on 4 March 1956 in village Mačkovec near Čakovec in Socialist Republic of Croatia.
The important Orthodox Christian monasteries in the region are Gomirje near Ogulin and Komogovina between Glina and Kostajnica.
The Rab concentration camp witnesses and atrocities in the Croatian village of Podhum near Rijeka are shown.
Fužine, Croatia, a village and municipality in Primorje–Gorski Kotar County, Croatia
In less than three years, he conquered the fortresses of Knin, Skradin and Ostrovica.
Twelve anti-aircraft Ansaldo 90/53 guns taken from the Vittorio Veneto were reused by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) as armament of its Žirje Island coastal artillery battery.
Josip "Mićo" Duvančić (born 1 October 1935 in Razvođe village near Promina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is a Croatian former football player and manager.
He started his education in Slavonski Brod, and continued it in Požega and Zagreb where he attended gymnasium.
Rimac was born in Lukar (part of Promina municipality) and spent her first four years of schooling in Knin, until the Croatian war of independence broke out in the 1990s.
Juraj Dobrović (born 1928 in Jelsa, Croatia) is a Croatian artist working in the media of sculpture, painting and graphic arts.
In late September 1942, Đujić's Chetniks killed up to 200 Croats in the village of Gata near Split, causing outrage by the Italians.
Petina, Croatia, a village in the Velika Gorica municipality, Zagreb County
Along with these marine landscapes were views of pastures and valleys from continental Croatia (Klek, Dobra, and around Zagreb).
Žirje, Croatia, an island and settlement in the Adriatic Sea in Croatia
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Germany, Italy, Greece and Canada qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China, joining Australia, China, Croatia, Hungary, Montenegro, Serbia, Spain, and the United States.
Aldo Andretti (born February 28, 1940 in Montona d'Istria, Italy (now Motovun, Croatia)) is the twin brother of Mario Andretti and the father of John Andretti and Adam Andretti.
Sinjska alka, an equestrian competition held annually in Sinj, Croatia
Karić starred in a number of notable films produced in Croatia and directed by Croatian directors such as Ante Babaja, Nikola Tanhofer, Zvonimir Berković, and Krsto Papić.
Luksic was born in Antofagasta, to a Bolivian mother, Elena Abaroa (great-grandchild of Bolivian War of the Pacific hero Eduardo Abaroa), and a Croatian immigrant father, Policarpo, who had arrived in Chile from the Adriatic island of Brač in 1910 and had made a living in the nitrate industry.
Three of his feature films were Croatia's submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (A Wonderful Night in Split in 2004, No One's Son in 2008 and Halima's Path in 2012), although none received a nomination.
In the second match against Croatia, he was shown a straight red card for reacting to a challenge from Jerko Leko as Germany succumbed to a 2–1 shock defeat.
He also competed in the 2007 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship finishing seventh in Qualifying Round B at Goričan in Croatia on 12 May 2007, before going out of the competition on 17 June in Semi Final B at Daugavpils in Latvia where he finished 14th.
The then mayor of Croatia's capital Zagreb, Vlasta Pavić, offered a free vacation to the Beslan children on the Adriatic Sea.
Bilina, Croatia, a historic settlement in inland Dalmatia, Croatia
Bribir is a village in Šibenik-Knin County, near the town of Skradin, southern Croatia.
Further, it mentions Bosnia (Bosnam) and Rascia (Rassa) as the two Serbian lands, while describing the southern Dalmatian Hum/Zahumlje, Travunia and Dioclea (most of today's Herzegovina, Montenegro, as well as parts of Croatia and Albania) as Croatian lands ("Red Croatia"), which is a description considered inconsistent with other historical works from the same period.
At the end of the 15th century, Primorsky was under Venetian rule, while northern Croatia (under Hungarian rule since the 12th century) came under Habsburg rule (with parts of Hungary) in 1526–1527 (where it remained until 1918).
Croteam is a Croatian independent game developer based in Zagreb.
Dalmatia, a region mainly in the southern part of modern Croatia
Dinko Mulić (born 8 September 1983 in Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Bosnian-born Croatian slalom canoer who has competed since the late 1990s.
In 1990, he returned from Eltville to the newly established state of Croatia and became a member of the Sabor parliament at Zagreb.
The segment north of Podi interchange near Dugopolje is not physically signposted as the E71, rather the designation is found along the A1 motorway north of the Dugopolje interchange.
Phylostratigraphy, a novel statistical method, was developed by Tomislav Domazet-Lošo at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, Croatia.
After the autumn of 1941 also the Dalmatian islands of Pag (Pago), Brač (Brazza) and Hvar (Lesina), initially given to the Independent State of Croatia, were annexed.
Brestanica is a small town located approximately 60 km from Zagreb, Croatia, and 100 km from Ljubljana, Slovenia.
He has three realized public sculptures: Foundation Batta, Zlín, the Czech Republic, Black Foot,in the Park of Sculptures, Vrsar, Croatia, and the Mostar Bruce Lee statue, in the town of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
After the war, Ćipiko became one of the most ardent proponent of Jovan Skerlić's unitarian ideas along with other Serbian writers from Croatia, Dalmatia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, such as Mirko Korolija, Niko Pucić, Svetozar Ćorović and Aleksa Šantić.
Jelsa is a town in Croatia, on the island of Hvar, the seat of the eponymous municipality (općina) within the county of Split-Dalmatia.
In 2007 Ricks and his wife moved to Kastav, Croatia, and on December 10, 2007 he died at the age of 67 in Kastav.
Ivo Josipović (born 1957), President of Croatia, lawyer and composer
The Air Campaign refers to any flight operations which are performed in the land area and air space of Serbia (including Kosovo), Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, and Slovenia, as well as the waters and air space of the Adriatic and Ionian Sea, provided such flight operations are in direct support of Kosovo peacekeeping actions.
Križevci, Croatia, a town in the Koprivnica-Križevci County in central Croatia
The type locality is "in der Save bei Agram in Croatien", which means in the Sava River near Zagreb, Croatia.
Maricite is named after Luka Maric of Croatia, (1899–1979), the longtime head of the mineralogy and petrography departments at the University of Zagreb.
Ivan Mikulić (born 1968), Bosnian Croat singer who represented Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004
Consequently and especially after Serbian law prohibited TV card readings, he started working at five television stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including nationwide OBN television based in Sarajevo, and a number of television stations in Croatia, including nationwide Nova TV based in Zagreb.
Sveta Nedelja, Istria, municipality of twenty villages in Istria county, Croatia
Đorđe Novković, (1943–2007), songwriter known for his work in SFR Yugoslavia and Croatia
After 1990, he served as an International Psychoanalytical Association's trainer for the trainees in psychoanalysis from Slovenia and Croatia, until the local branch of the Sigmund Freud University Vienna was opened in Slovenia.
Petar Kanavelic was born in Korčula, Republic of Venice, now modern Croatia, the last male descendant of an old, wealthy and distinguished noble family of the town.
The region can be accessed via the road leading from Orebić to Ston (the D414) on a smaller route leading to the villages of Borje and Podubuče.
Hrvatska Klarija got its name after Croatian settlers (nobles that originated from Turopolje), that were settled there by the Diocese of Zagreb on its possessions (see Hrvatska Keča, Hrvatski Čenej).
Slavonski Šamac, a town on the left bank of the river Sava, in Croatia
Sanski Most is home to many different types of stores, and in the city center Konzum is located, part of a food chain from Croatia.
Siniša Martinović (born Tuzla, December 19, 1980) is a Croatian professional ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for the Schwenninger Wild Wings of the 2nd Bundesliga.
Although the cartulary itself just lists the possessions of the monastery of St. Peter in Poljice, Croatia and the ways through which they were acquired˙(such as purchase or grants), it also contains few important historical notes.
In July 2012 the organisation successfully released over 1.000 endangered bluefin tuna from a tuna farm off the island of Ugljan, Croatia.
Tom Starcevich was the son of immigrants to Western Australia: Gertrude May Starcevich née Waters (born c. 1897, in Dunkirk, Kent, England) and Joseph Starcevich (born c. 1892, in Lič, Croatia-Slavonia, Austro-Hungarian Empire).
The local airport was used as airbase for offensive operations against Croatia and Bosnia, in direct defiance of NATO's Operation Deny Flight.
Protection zone of the National Park stretches on the western side from the source of the Krka creek and its course to the confluence with the Una on the state border of Bosnia and Herzegovina with Croatia from where park border follows the Una and state border to the town of Martin Brod and confluence with the Unac.
At their second event, in Zagreb, Croatia, they took the bronze and qualified for the JGP Final in Sochi, Russia, where they won the silver medal behind Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin.
Veliki Bukovec is castle located in the municipality of the same name within Varaždin County, Croatia.
When he discovered the planetoid No. 589 in 1906, he named it "Croatia" in the honor of the new observatory.
Amidst the "worst crimes committed in Europe this century" the first major experiment in email was launched in June 1992 in Zagreb and Belgrade, almost exactly a year after Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia, triggering a brutal response from Serbia.