Croatia: Prehistory to Present by Paul F. Kisak

Croatia: Prehistory to Present
Edited by Paul F. Kisak

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.

Croatia: Prehistory to Present 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.