The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia became a federal independent communist state under the strong hand of Marshal TITO. Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter, fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands, along with a majority of Croatia's ethnic Serb population. Under UN supervision, the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998. The country joined NATO in April 2009 and the EU in July 2013.
Croatia is a parliamentary republic.
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Displaying 36 - 40 of 75Law amending the Law declaring the western part of the island of Mljet National Park.
This Law amends certain provisions part of the Law declaring the western part of the island of Mljet National Park (Official Gazette 49/1960).Amendments are related to the official changes to the borders and denominations, and land coordinates.
Amends: Law declaring the western part of the island of Mljet National Park. (1960-11-12)
Law declaring the mountain Biokovo as Nature Park.
This Law provides all necessary information, official borders and denominations for the declaration of the area of Biokovo mountain, Republic of Croatia as a protected National Park (total surface 19,550 ha).
Regulation on the adoption of the Spatial Plan for Medvednica Nature Park.
This Regulation officially establishes the Spatial Plan for the correct, safe and sustainable management of the Croatian national “Medvednica” Nature Park.The plan contained in the study "The Spatial Plan for Medvednica Nature Park" is an integral part of this Regulation.
Implements: Law declaring the western part of Medvednica as nature Park. (1981-05-29)
Law declaring the Nature Park "Lonjsko polje".
This Law establishes all necessary information, official boundaries and standards for the declaration of the area of “Lonjsko and Mokro Polje”, including the area of the river Sava (in total area of 50,650 ha).This area is proclaimed as a Croatian nature park denominated as "Lonjsko polje".
Law declaring the Žumberak and Samobor mountain as nature park.
This Law determines all necessary information, official borders and denominations for the declaration of the area of “Žumberak and Samobor”, including the areas with common boundaries.Žumberak and Samobor Mountains, with a total area of 333 square kilometers, is hereby designated as Croatian nature park "Žumberak-Samobor."