Croatia "Prehistory to Present" Edited by Paul F. Kisak
Croatia "Prehistory to Present" Edited by Paul F. Kisak
Croatia: " Prehistory to Present " Edited by Paul F. Kisak || GET TO KNOW CROATIA BOOK SERIES
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Republika Hrvatska), is a sovereign state at the crossroads of Central Europe, Southeast Europe, and the Mediterranean.
Its capital city is Zagreb, which forms one of the country's primary subdivisions, along with its twenty counties. Croatia covers 56,594 square kms (21,851 square miles) and has diverse, mostly continental and Mediterranean climates. Croatia's Adriatic Sea coast contains more than a thousand islands.
BIG SUPER CERTIFIED CROATIAN FACTS:
1. The Vatican had an all-Croatian Navy
2. Pope Sixtus 5th was Croatian
3. Croatians were the mercenaries (Stratioti) hired by England to attack Scottish castles
4. A Pasha of Egypt was Croatian
5. There were established trade routes from Dubrovnik to the Mideast, Venice, England, Scotland & Wales
6. Croatians were among the worlds most accomplished sailors and shipbuilders
7. St. Simeon was a Patron Saint in Croatia
8. St. Peter of Gamay was a Patron Saint in Croatia
9. Composer Joseph Haydn was Venetian-Croatian
10. Nikola Tesla (Serbian-Croatian) was one of the most accomplished physicists in the world and refused the Nobel Prize
11. Shakespeare’s play 'The 12th Night' was about Dalmatia and Dubrovnik
12. St. Blaise was a patron St. of Croatia
13. There were (4) Croatians aboard the Columbus voyage to discover America
14. There were early American pioneers from Croatia
15. There were Croatians aboard the voyage of Verrazano to America & Canada
16. There were Croatians aboard Sebastian Cabot's Voyage
17. Marco Polo was a Croatian
18. There were Croatians in the Arctic expedition of 1872-1874
19. St. Jerome is the Patron Saint of Dubrovnik
20. The Croatians were the 1st to have the Latin Vulgate Mass
21. Dubrovnik, Croatia was involved in the American Revolution
22. Croatia played a roll in the Napoleanic wars & The battle of Waterloo
23. Croatia had an important role in the beginning of WWI
24. JAVA man was found in Croatia
25. Anthony F. Lucas is the father of the petroleum industry
26. Dragutin Kramberger discovered the richest collection of remains of Diluvial Neanderthal people in the world
27. Vladimir Prelog won the Nobel Prize for discoveries in chemistry
28. Ivan Vucetic was a criminologist and pioneer of Dactyloscopy
29. Andrija Mohorovicic (Croatian Geophysicist) discovery was essential for modeling the inner structure of the Earth
30. Two Croatian names appear on the map of the Moon
31. Stjepan Mohorovicic discovered positronium
32. Dragutin Lerman was a member of Stanley's expedition to Congo and a commissary
33. Milan Sufflay was an expert in the field of albanology
34. Juan Bielovucic was one of the first aviators in history
35. Fran Bosnjakovic was one of leading experts in thermodynamics
36. The Savannah nuclear ship was built to the plans of Erazmo Ticac
37. In 1972 Hrvoje Saric invented the 1st synchro-rotational photo-camera in history
38. Vladimir Jurko Glaser published one of the first papers on Quantum Electrodynamics
39. Zvonimir Janko discovered groups named J1, J2, J3, and J4, called Janko groups
40. Ivan Gutman, a Mathematical Chemist, has authored more than 1200 scientific articles
41. Lavoslav Ruz won the Nobel Prize for chemistry
42. Vladimir Prelog won the Nobel Prize in chemistry
43. The 3rd Croatian Nobel Prize winner is Ivo Andric, for literature
44. Anthony Maglica is a holder of hundreds of patents and trademarks and designed the Mag-Lite flashlight
45. In 1997 Tomislav Uzelac invented the AMP Playback Engine, the first successful MP3 player.
This book details the remarkable history and rich culture of Croatia and is designed to be a reference and provide an overview of the topic and give the reader a structured knowledge to familiarize yourself with the topic at the most affordable price possible.
The accuracy and knowledge is of an international viewpoint as the edited articles represent the inputs of many knowledgeable individuals and some of the most current knowledge on the topic.