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Croatia map and the
CIA World Factbook is the best geographic resources about Croatia
Below you can
find the Croatia political map with 21 counties (zupanje).
The
counties are
primary territorial subdivisions of the Republic of
Croatia. In
Croatian they are called županije in plural and županija in singular
form.There is a total of 21 counties in the country. Each county has an assembly
(županijska skupština) which is composed of
representatives elected by popular vote, using
party-list proportional representation, for four-year terms. The county
assembly elects the executive county leadership, decides on the yearly
budget, the
county properties etc.
The leader of a county is a župan
(sometimes translated as "prefect"),
who has up to twelve deputies each called a dožupan. The župan
presides over the county's executive government (županijsko
poglavarstvo), and represents the county in external affairs.
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Croatia political map and the CIA World Factbook is the best geographic resources about Croatia.
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. Under UN supervision, the last Serb-held
enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998.
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During the European
uprisings of 1848, Croatians designed a flag based on that of
Russia. In April 1941 the fascistic Ustasa used this flag,
adding the checkered shield of Croatia. A communist star soon
replaced the shield, but the current flag was adopted on Dec.
22, 1990. Atop the shield is a "crown" inlaid with historic
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