http://www.croatia.org/crown en-us http://www.croatia.org/crown N/A letters@croatia.org Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:53:19 +0000 20 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/9663/1/Dr-Slaven-Letica-If-Streets-Could-Talk-Kad-bi-ulice-imale-dar-govora.html If Croatian streets and squares could talk, what a thrilling story they could tell about the meaning of all the name changes, and the dramatic, bloody, and tragic history that lies beneath. In my book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, I decided to "freeze history", at least for a brief moment. I gambled on posthumous recognition for my efforts, fully aware that any such appreciation in Croatia is always fleeting, and never long-lasting. slaven1947@gmail.com (Prof.Dr. Slaven Letica) Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/9406/1/Abortion-in-Croatia-is-Down-90-Since-1989.html Croatia has experienced a very dramatic drop in the abortion rate from 1989 when the nation's 51,289 abortions were nearly equal to the number of live births. The latest statistics, from 2005, indicate there were 4,563 abortions - a drop of nearly 90% since 1989.  Significantly the law on abortion has not changed. letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/9360/1/Basketball-players-from-Croatia-and-Bosna-Herzegovina-in-the-US.html   Toni Kukoc (left) played in the NBA for the Milwaukee Bucks. Have you ever stopped and wondered how many players there are from Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina at the university level in the United States? It is an impressive list. vnazor@yahoo.com (Vedran Joseph Nazor) Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/9066/1/JAVNOorg-Croatian-website-in-English-that-shows-up-daily-on-Google-search-for-news.html   The portal is also available in English, which allows us to reach out to users who speak other languages as well as to foreign citizens residing in Croatia.   letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/9047/1/II-kongres-hrvatskih-znanstvenika-iz-domovine-i-inozemstva.html U Splitu je od 7. do 10. svibnja 2007. odr¾an Drugi kongres hrvatskih znanstvenika iz domovine i inozemstva. Kongres se odvijao u pet tematskih cjelina: Europski i meðunarodni projekti, Suradnja s gospodarstvom i tehnologijski projekti, Razvoj znanstvenih institucija, Strate¹ki okvir razvoja znanosti do 2010., Privlaèenje pozornosti medija na znanstvene teme.  darko_zubrinic@yahoo.com (Prof.Dr. Darko Zubrinic) Tue, 29 May 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/9043/1/Croatian-World-Calendar---Hrvatski-Svjetski-Kalendar-coming-soon-uskoro.html                             letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Fri, 11 May 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/9017/1/Brigham-Young-University-is-seeking-contributions-of-digital-Croatian-historical-documents.html   EuroDocs is a portal to European primary historical documents. Please consider this a call and an invitation to join the EuroDocs family to help build primary historical documentation online for the European country or countries of your choice. You can request a password, after which you are invited to contribute as few or as many links to historical documents online as you like. deyrupma@shu.edu (Marta Mestrovic Deyrup, Ph.D.) Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/8990/1/Studia-Croatica-moved-to-wwwstudiacroaticaorg.html  www.studiacroatica.org   letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/8911/1/Croatian-Gallery-2005.html Croatian Gallery 2005 is a web collection of photos and articles representing some of the most interesting features of Croatian history, culture and science. It shows that Croatia is not at all a small country, as many say. Its contributions in many fields of human activities are outstanding.   darko_zubrinic@yahoo.com (Prof.Dr. Darko Zubrinic) Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5762/1/E-Central-and-Eastern-European-Online-Library.html ÂCentral and Eastern European Online LibraryDear Mr. Bach ,We are happy to let you know that the Central and Eastern European Online Library continues to grow, adding new titles and more back issues to the existing titles. The library now offers more than 180 full text humanities and social science periodicals from Central and Eastern Europe, accessible in digital format, and it can be used by individual clients registering for a personal user account, as well as by universities, research institutes and other corporate customers.The Central and Eastern European Online Library is an electronic library where the individual readers can put together their own archive, choosing from thousands of articles, according to their current interest, without the need to subscribe to the entire library or periodical.We will be most happy to welcome you at our stand at the International Council for Central & East European Studies (ICCEES) World Congress - booth number 18 (Exhibition area ICCEES, Humboldt University Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin) between 25-30 July 2005, and present the complete service package of the C.E.E.O.L. if you plan to attend this event.Of course an online project normally should not need such a personal demonstration since everybody can evaluate it from at home. And we sincerely invite you to do so at www.ceeol.com . Yet sometimes a personal meeting can make things much easier.With our best regards,Cosmina BertaBea KlotzWolfgang Klotzinfo@ceeol.com Central and Eastern European Online LibraryOffenbacher LandstraÃe 368D-60599 Frankfurt am Mainhttp://www.ceeol.com  letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Mon, 18 Jul 2005 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5763/1/E-Croatians-in-Las-Vegas.html  Welcome to the Croatian - American Club Las Vegas, Nevada www.lasvegascroatians.com  The Croatian - American Club of Las Vegas, Nevada is a non-profit organization founded in 1983 by Croatian - Americans in the Las Vegas area.  The club was organized and exists in order to preserve and promote the Croatian heritage, history and culture and to foster closer relationships for Croatians-Americans living and working in Southern Nevada.  letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Sun, 17 Apr 2005 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5764/1/E-CroatiaBlog-Launched.html ÂÂÂCroatiaBlog LaunchedThere is no waiting anymore. This is CroatiaBlog on CROWN. It will become CroatiaBlog.com in a near future, but as of now...microphone is yours. This is one of the things that were missing. I knew that but wasn't able to accomplish it. Thank you Ivo, for pushing me and for the creation of this Blog. Mikrofon je Vas. Any subject, any topic, nonconformist. One rule: Decency. No curse words. If you never heard about Blog, put the word in Google and see: Results 1 - 10 of about 176,000,000 for blog. http://www.croatianworld.net/wwwboardNenad BachEditor in ChiefCROWN www.Croatia.org letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Sun, 13 Feb 2005 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5765/1/E-Croatian-History-by-Darko-Zubrinic---New-Web-Page.html ÂCroatian HistoryÂDarko Zubrinic's pages that amazed all of us. Now under one domain namewww.CroatianHistory.net. I bought this address and passed it onto Darko, because nobody that I know deserves it more than him. Go inside this labyrinth of Croatian DNA...History, Art, Music, Science... almost everything. It's up to you who read this somewhere around the world to make it even better and more interesting. Enjoy,ÂNenad BachÂP.S. Here is Darko's letter. Now you have a place to send your old photos that are part of Croatian History. In a near future, we have to create mirror sites on a few more continents of this incredible work of passion and knowledge. Congratulations Darko. You are our Croatian pride. Iliti Odlikas, kak bi to ja rekel.Croatian History will be linked on a first page of CROWN in less then a week.ÂDreams...Dear reader, many people have helped me to create these web pages, seeAcknowledgements. I kindly ask You the following: Any photo or information related to history of Croats in general would be welcome. I am in particular interested in old photos of Croatian cultural organizations throughout the world. For example photo of old Croatian tamburitza players (and not only tamburitza players) would be very interesting. I am very interested in any information (including photos) of cultural society Hrvatska zena (Croatian Woman), founded in 1920's in Zagreb, forbidden from 1945 till 1990 by ex-Yugoslavia, but some of its branches, like the one in Chicago, USA, continued to exist. I know that there existed (or even still exists) Hrvatska zena in Punta Arenas, on the very south of Chile. I am very interested in any photo of Anthony Lucas (Antun Lucic from Split), with whom started the first massive production of oil and petroleum in the world. Some of the best church frescos in the USA are in Croatian churches, painted by Maxo Vanka. I would deeply appreciate a photo. One of the greatest mathematicians in history is Leonhard Euler (18th century). I have information that he was communicating in written with Rugjer Boskovic, and that his letters are kept in Boskovic Archives at the Rare Books library in Berkeley, University of California, USA. It would be extremely interesting to translate some of this letters into English and Croatian. My e-mail is darko.zubrinicYY@YYfer.hr (please, remove Y's; don't ask me why). In case of doubt that Your mail has not reached me, please, go to Nenad Bach's CROWN, and submit Your message there. Croatia - its History, Culture and Science  letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5766/1/E-12-million-internet-users-in-Croatia.html Â1.2 million internet users in CroatiaTelecom Paper , Netherlands 34.4 percent or 1.2 million people of the Croatian population older than 15 years uses internet at least once per month, according to a survey by GfK Croatia. ...  letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Fri, 26 Nov 2004 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/4724/1/E-Lone-Star-Croatian-Club-of-Texas-has-new-web-site.html  Lone Star Croatian Club of Texas has new web siteDear Croatian organizations,Please be advised that the Lone Star Croatian Club of Texas has new web site on the Internet. www.croatianlsclub.comThe Lone Star Croatian Club (LSCC) is a non-profit organization located in Houston, TX that gathers people of Croatian origin and friends of Croatia. New address is: Lone Star Croatian club                         P.O.B 421844                         Houston, TX 77242-1844 New web address is: www.croatianlsclub.com                     e-mail:croatiantx@yahoo.com New President of the club is: Mladen (Mike) Sic   Thank you Unaprijed vam se zahvaljujem,   Mike Sic Phone (832) 277-0189 Fax    (281) 395-5396  letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Wed, 06 Oct 2004 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5767/1/EH-Language-Jezik-Dictionary-Rijecnik.html ÂLanguage - Dictionary.comÂFor each word you are not sure how to spell or do not understand the meaning, or simple you are not sure, you can use the modern tools that are at your finger tips.ÂZa svaku rijec na engleskom koju ne znate ili kako napisati, izgovoriti ili cak sto znaci, mozete upotrijebiti moderna sredstva koja su Vam na raspolaganju. Âhttp://dictionary.com  letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5768/1/HE-BOOKSTORE-Croatian-Book-for-SALE.html ÂBOOKSTORE "Croatian Book" for SALEhttp://www.personal.kent.edu/~knamjesn/knjizara/knjizara.html ÂCroatian Book Store Inventoryhttp://www.personal.kent.edu/~knamjesn/knjizara/i.html CRO Dictionary (English-Croatian)http://www.personal.kent.edu/~knamjesn/dic.html  letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. 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And one of the few winners, unusually, was the Middle East..Those changes came to light in a report by the World Tourism Organization, a UN agency in Madrid, which suggested that while the fear of terrorism had deterred some people from visiting the United States, America's measures against terrorism - tighter visa and security regulations and heightened security alerts - had also persuaded many people in the Middle East to vacation in their own region rather than venture farther abroad..And, the report suggested, those shifts also bred a new kind of traveler, averse to long flights and to journeys planned well in advance, favoring instead cheaper vacations arranged at the last minute - often over the Internet and not too far from home..Generalizations can be misleading, and there are many other factors in play. In Europe, the soaring value of the euro has sent some tourists hurrying to a seaside fix in non-euro (but baking hot) destinations like Turkey's Mediterranean beaches and the Adriatic coast of Croatia. But that is not the only explanation. ''In 2003, international tourism lived through an exceptionally difficult year in which three negative factors came together: the Iraq conflict, SARS and a persistently weak economy,'' Francesco Frangialli, secretary general of the World Tourism Organization, said in a statement..As a result, the organization's report in late January said: ''Tour operators kept facing a difficult environment. Late booking persisted and 'do it yourself' is consolidating as a means of planning trips, strongly stimulated by the possibilities offered by the Internet.''.''Low-cost airlines continued their advance, most notably in Europe,'' the report continued, singling out Britain where carriers such as Ryanair and easyJet claim about 30 percent of the overall airline passenger market, compared with 11 percent in 2000..Over all, the report said, 2003 was the worst year on record for global tourism as measured in terms of the number of people arriving as vacationers at international destinations. Last year, the total number fell 1.2 percent, to694 million arrivals, a drop of 8.5 million from 2002. Perhaps the most startling statistic in the report is that, compared with 2000, when millennium celebrations produced a spike in tourism around the world, the biggest single victim has been the United States. ''The big loser in terms of tourism volume is North America,'' with a 17 percent drop in the number of international visitors arriving for recreational purposes from91.2 million in 2000 to 76.1 million in 2003. The United States, the report said, ''is still seriously struggling to overcome the impact of Sept. 11 and the subsequent war on terrorism.''.The second most affected was Western Europe, down 3 percent from its 2000 peak of 142 million tourists, because of the loss of ''traffic from the Americas and Asia, as well as the weak economy in the region.''.The report included a survey of 180 tourism experts from governments and private businesses in 90 countries, including the United States. The consensus among them was that 2004 promises to show an improvement as a pent-up desire for travel persuades many people to venture forth again. Against that, the international market is likely to remain skewed by the overwhelming strength of the euro and the weakness of the dollar. For Americans, the report said, outbound travel from the United States is expected to rebound as low inflation makes vacations accessible. ''Nevertheless, a weak dollar could stimulate domestic tourism as well as regional traffic while doubts remain whether long-haul travel to Europe will also bounce back,'' it said..Of all the regions in the world, perhaps the most dramatic change in tourism came in one closely linked to the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq: the Middle East. There, by the measure of international arrivals used in the document, tourism was up by around 10 percent, from 27.6 million in 2002 to 30.4 million in 2003, largely because of tourists from one country in the region going to another rather than face political and economic difficulties of more ambitious trips. Those travelers, the report said, were deterred by ''envisaged difficulties in traveling to the Americas for political reasons and to Europe in view of the strong euro.''.The New York Timeshttp://www.iht.com/articles/509066.html letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Mon, 08 Mar 2004 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5772/1/E-Croatia-in-The-British-Library.html ÂThe British Library Croatian internet resourcesBritish Library Slavonic and East European CollectionsIndex by resource Academic institutions | Art and culture | Economy, finance and business |General information about Croatia | Legal resources | Libraries and archives |Media | Non-governmental organisations | Politics and government |Publishers and booksellers | Religion | Search engines, gateways and directories |Further information Academic institutions Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti) University of Zagreb (Sveucilište u Zagrebu)University of Split (Sveucilište u Splitu)University of Rijeka (Sveucilište u Rijeci)Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek (Sveucilište "Josip Juraj Strossmayer" u Osijeku)Universitas Studiorum Jadertina (Sveucilište u Zadru) Ruder Boškovic Institute (Institut "Ruder Boškovic") Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation (Institut za jadranske kulture i melioraciju krša) Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (Institut za oceanografiju i ribarstvo) Croatian Association for the Education of Adults (Hrvatska zajednica puckih otvorenih ucilišta) Art and culture culturenet.hr (Croatian cultural portal)Museum Documentation Center with links to Croatian Museums on the Internet (Muzejski dokumentacijski centar)The Croatian History Museum (Hrvatski povijesni muzej) Museum of Contemporary Art (Muzej suvremene umjetnosti Zagreb) Ethnographic Museum Zagreb (Etnografski muzej Zagreb) Croatian Music Information Centre with MIC Directory of events, individuals and institutions (Muzicki informativni centar)Dubrovnik Summer Festival (Dubrovacke ljetnje igre) The Gavella City Drama Theater (Gradsko dramsko kazalište Gavella)Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb (Hrvatsko narodno kazalište u Zagrebu)Croatian National Theatre Split (Hrvatsko narodno kazalište Split) Hrvatsko narodno kazalište Ivana pl. 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Bach) Sun, 29 Feb 2004 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5773/1/ES-10000-Croatian-Surnames-in-Argentina.html Â10.000 Croatian Surnames in ArgentinaMany times I was asked -and I asked myself- how many Croatians there are (or rather are we) in Argentina. The answers are usually very varied, indicating that nobody really knows. So I decided to do something about it, that is to count them!Well, ... almost. What I did is to identify the Argentine citizens with Croatian last names. The task is not easy, and one has to be aware of the many sources of errors. Errors remain, but anyway, atwww.studiacroatica.com/ape/ape.htm you can see a list of 10.000 Croatian surnames in Argentina, including their frequencies. All together there are some 110.000 holders of Croatian last names, born up to 1983 (from 1979 on the data is incomplete), which means that today we are some 40.000 more. These numbers do not include Croatian descendants who do not have a Croatian last name.Comments are welcome. A text on how was done the work, -its scope, difficulties and sources of errors- will be forwarded upon request.Joza VrljicakBuenos Airesjoza@velocom.com.ar 10000 apellidos croatas en ArgentinaMuchas veces me preguntaron -y yo mismo pregunté- cuantos croatas hay en Argentina. Las respuestas son muy variadas, indicando que nadie sabe con seguridad.Así que decidí hacer algo respecto de ello, esto es ... contarnos.Bueno, casi. Lo que hice fue identificar a los ciudadanos argentinos con apellidos croatas. La tarea no es fácil, y uno debe ser consciente de las muchas fuentes de errors. Errores subsisten, pero de todos modos, enwww.studiacroatica.com/ape/ape.htm puede verse una lista de 10000 apellidos croatas en Argentina, incluyendo sus frecuencias. En total somos unos 110000 portadores de apellidos croatas, nacidos hasta 1983 (desde 1979 los datos son incompletos), lo que significa que hoy somos unos 40000 más. Estos números no incluyen descendientes croatas que no llevan un (primer) apellido croata.Los comentarios serán apreciados. Un escrito sobre como se hizo este trabajo, -sus alcances, dificultades y fuentes de errores- puede solicitarse via email.Joza Vrljicakjoza@velocom.com.ar - - - - - - - -This Bulletin is published by the journal Studia Croatica - Institute for Croatian Culture. The journal is published in Buenos Aires since 1960 - The Bulletin is distributed in two versions, Spanish and English, to some 2300 email adresses in 30 countries. Please tell us if you do not want to receive more this kind of material. Studia Croatica is on the Web since 1996, -where it has some 17500 pages in Spanish, French, English and Croatian. It receives some 140000 hits per month. www.studiacroatica.com - joza@velocom.com.ar.Este Boletín es publicado por la revista Studia Croatica - Instituto de Cultura Croata, editada en Buenos Aires desde 1960 - El Boletín se distribuye en castellano e inglés a unas 2300 direcciones electrónicas en 30 países. Rogamos nos comuniquen si no desean recibir este tipo de información. Studia Croatica se encuentra en la Web desde 1996, -donde tiene unas 17500 páginas en castellano, francés, inglés y croata- y recibe unas 140000 visitas por mes.www.studiacroatica.com -joza@velocom.com.ar . letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Mon, 16 Feb 2004 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5774/1/E-English-Croatian-converter.html ÂDo Skorog VidjenjaHi Nenad,Heading home immediately, but thought I'd give you the links I found today. The dictionary one is a subset of the dalmacija one. The dictionary has an English-Croatian converter that doesn't seem to work. But, it has a list of common words that I used to start learning some basic Croatian. My goals are modest here, I started taking "French 101" when I was in the 4th grade, and am still working on it! http://www.dalmacija.net/dictionary.htm http://dalmacija.net/home/ Dovidenja!Dinorullid@yahoo.com letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Wed, 04 Feb 2004 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5776/1/E-Maps-Phones-of-Croatia---Karte--Telefoni.html ÂMaps, Phones of Croatia - Karte , Telefonihttp://www.htnet.hr/fset.html letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5775/1/E-WALKING-TOUR-OF-CROATIAN-HISTORY-IN-NEW-YORK.html ÂWALKING TOUR OF CROATIAN HISTORY IN NEW YORKÂBy Katarina Tepesh“According to records available from the Department of State, first ships from Dalmatia to New York arrived in 1797,” says Croatian genealogist Adam Eterovichwww.croatians.com . The first Croatian captain on the ship “Postojani” was Luka Gerich, followed by Mato Fiskovich.Due to economic conditions in the 1800’s Croatians came to America to look for work. “S trbuhom za kruhom” they headed in search of a better life. Many Croatians were landless peasants, driven out when the country failed to industrialize. Croatia easily ranked the highest in the percentage of small peasant proprietors on the land. Leaving the rural villages, Croatians had most difficult time reaching America. One word description comes to mind “krvavo”. They universally suspected immigration agents of excessive charges and bad advice and composed a rhyme on their experiences: “Jer agenti varalice jesu, samo za se napunjaju kesu.” Translation: “For the agents are surely swindlers, since they are always lining their own pockets.” Despite the hardships and obstacles, Croatian people have succeeded in America, or for the purposes of this article in New York. The tremendous struggle to first reach the American soil and then to learn and assimilate is proven by how many of our people have changed their names and consequently lost connection to the Croatian community.ÂNew York City is one of the most vibrant, vital cities on earth.www.go-newyorkcity.com ÂIn New York one can take a tour of Croatian history:The first Croatian church in Manhattan opened in 1913 on West 50th Street. First priest serving Croatian people was a Slovene. Fairly small church serving big community transferred in 1954 to a much larger church and hall at 502 West 41 Street called Sts. Cyril & Methodius Croatian Roman Catholic church. The church is exceptionally beautiful with its stained glass windows. Close to 2000 devoted parishioner’s celebrated 90th anniversary during 2003. Three priests and three nuns are serving the Croatian community, including visiting the sick. The nuns are teaching Catechism, Croatian language and religious songs to youngsters. The ethnic dancing “kolo” group “Cardinal Stepinac” performs regularly. Outside and inside you can see huge Croatian Coat of Arms and a large sign “Bog i Hrvati.” or “Croats! God be with you.” The church holds the sculpture of Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac (1898-1960) by Ivan Mestrovic who was a great Croatian artist. Attached building to the church is the Croatian Center or the Sveti Nikola Tavelic Hall, where one can see well preserved wall paintings by talented artist Zvonimir Mihanovic. Born on August 12, 1946 in Sitno Polje near Split, Mihanovic painted the famous scenes of Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Split, Mostar, Sarajevo, etc. Mihanovic draws inspiration from the picturesque harbors, tranquility, the small harbor and the few fishing boats used by solitary anglers along the coast, marine vistas and small villages scattered. Mihanovic’s ability to calm the soul through his work in oil is legendary. www.mihanovic.com The spacious basement of the church served as the center where we collected first aid to Croatia from June 15, 1991 until 1995 during brutal attack by Serbs. In the best Croatian tradition, thousands of us volunteered by giving generous donation of our time, energy and valuable resources towards the success and continued progress of independent, peaceful and democratic Croatia. We also received help from generous Americans, including the popular actor and activist Martin Sheen. For decades after the Civil War,Hell’s Kitchen on the New York City’s West Side between 14th and 52nd Streets, from Eighth Avenue to the waterfront was considered very rough neighborhood full of slaughterhouses, railroad yards, gas works and docks. This was the old Croatian neighborhood a hundred years ago when shipping was prominent. The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, at 64 St and Broadway, is a place was many Croatians have performed. The first Croatian national opera was composed in 1846 by Vatroslav Lisinski called “Ljubav i Zloba”.There are prominent photos of two famous Croatian opera singers Milka Ternina and Zinka Kunc Milanov on the wall of the Metropolitan Opera. Milka Ternina (1863-1941), born in Vojni Kriz, Croatia. Began her career in Zagreb in 1882 as Amelia, went on to Graz and Vienna. Her fame dates back to Bremen in 1886. In 1890 the Bavarian Royal Opera engaged her. Years of triumph followed. Through her appearances at the Bayreuth Festivals and in several European capitals, Milka gained prominence at the height of her career as the foremost Wagnerian soprano in the world. For nine seasons she elated American audiences at the Metropolitan Opera. She was Met’s first Tosca performing with Enrico Caruso. She was hailed by the great Italian conductor Toscanini as the “world’s greatest artist,” with repertory of 85 roles. In 1906, Milka Ternina returned to her native Zagreb, forced by paralysis she retired in 1916. But in Zagreb, Milka discovered the young Zinka Kunc, coached her for three years and gave to the Metropolitan Opera one of its shining talents.http://www.historicopera.com/ Âorwww.croatianmall.com/croatia/franolic/milka-ternina.htm Mira Teresa Zinka Kunc Milanov (1906-1989), was born in Zagreb. She was widely acclaimed for her operatic talent and even now opera lovers say when Zinka stopped singing, it was the end of an era. Zinka gave 298 performances at the Metropolitan Opera plus 123 on tour. Starting in 1937, Zinka had the honor to open the season four times. Considered among the great artists, she covered Verdi, Puccini, Bellini, Mascagni and others. During 29 seasons at the Metropolitan she sang Leonora, Aida, Gioconda, Tosca, the two Amelias, Santuzza, Maddelena, Norma, Donna Anna, Desdemona and Elvira. Zinka was considered “primadonna assoluta, la Regina Della casa”. Zinka was extremely proud of her American citizenship.http://www.bassocantante.com/opera/milanov.html ,Âwww.naxos.com/ orwww.hr/darko/etf/et12.html ÂThe gift shop at the Lincoln Center is still selling cassettes of Zinka’s operas. Unfortunately Milka’s voice is not preserved, as during her lifetime recording was not perfected. Just as the great prima donna Milka was teaching Zinka, she too was teaching among others, Rosalie Olinski. After Zinka’s death, Rosalie performed at a concert in honor of Zinka where she sang the old favorites of Zinka’s including “Domovini i Ljubavi”, “Gor Cez Jezero”, “Daleko Je Moj Split”, “Pastirica”, “Ko Lani Sem”, etc. Bozidar Kunc (1903-1964), composer and pianist. He often acted as accompanist and mentor to his world famous sister Zinka Kunc. Ilma di Murska or Ema Puksec (1834-1889),the “Croatian Nightingale”, as the Viennese used to call her. Ilma di Murska was born in Ogulin. After studying singing in Zagreb and Graz, she went to Vienna in 1860. In 1862, di Murska made extraordinarily debut as Queen Marguerite de Valois in Meyerbeer’s Las Huguenots, at the Pergola Theatre in Florence. After triumphant appearance in Italy, Barcelona, Budapest and Berlin, di Murska made her debut at the Royal Opera in Vienna as Leonora in Verdi’s Il Trovatore, in 1864. In Vienna she sang in 17 different roles, and performing in 229 operas and 8 concerts. After appearing in Berlin, Paris and Hamburg, di Murska first appeared in London at Her Majesty’s Theatre in 1865 as Lucia di Lammerinoor where she sang brilliant soprano. After 1871 she settled in America and was offered in 1880 a professorship of singing at the National Conservatory of Music in New York. She died on January 14, 1889 as one of the great singers in operatic history.www.historicopera.comorwww.matica.hr Âorwww.croatianmall.com/croatia/franolic/ilma-di-murska.htm Vladimir Ruzdjak (1922-1967), opera singer baritone and composer. He was born in Zagreb. From 1962-1964 he performed at the Metropolitan Opera. During his 40 year career, Ruzdjak gave over 2500 performances mostly in Zagreb and Hamburg. ÂBiserka Katusic Cvejic (1923), born in Krilu-Jesenice near Split. She was world-renowned mezzo-soprano. From 1961 she was a constant guest at the Metropolitan Opera. Marko Rothmuller (1908-1993), born in Trnjani near Slavonski Brod. Composer, bass-baritone performed at the Metropolitan with debut in 1952 and in Europe. He recorded for EMI. Ljiljana Molnar-Talajic (1938), born in Bosanski Brod. She was a guest at the Metropolitan Opera, most famous for her interpretation of Aida at La Scala, Covent Gardens and Vienna. Ruza Pospis-Baldani (1942), born in Varazdinskim Toplicama. Mezzo-soprano performed Magdalena in Riggolette at the Metropolitan Opera first time in 1966. She received an engagement in 1970 at the Met as Carmen. Ruza also performed at the Carnegie Hall.www.foi.hr/~neven/vzhist3.htm orwww.matica.hr Giorgio Surjan (1954), born in Rijeka. Opera singer bass performed at the Met during ’97-98 seasons. Majda Radic (1933-1984), born in Sibenik. Mezzo-soprano performed in the US.Boris Martinovic (1955) born in Zadar. Opera singer, bass-baritone was the youngest member of the Metropolitan Opera at age of 20 performing with Renata Scotto, while he was on full scholarship at The Julliard School of Music. Had a concert in 1978 at the Carnegie Hall and performed with Placido Domingo in Washington and Split. Mia Slavenska (1914-2002) was born in Slavonski Brod and became a ballerina of the Zagreb Opera from 1930-33. Mia also studied in Vienna and joined the Paris Opera in 1933. In London Mia danced with Anton Dolin before joining the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (1938-42). Slavenska starred in wonderful French film, La Mort du Cygnet (1938). She later formed her own company, Ballet Variante. In 1953 Mia established the Slavenska-Franklin ballet company with Frederic Franklin. In 1950’s she was primabalerina of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. By the end of her career she was teaching in Los Angeles, California. Said to be fearless on stage and in life.http://www.croatianmall.com orÂwww.hr/darko/etf/et12.html Josip Kasman or Giuseppe Kaschmann (1850-1925), born on the island Mali Losinj, the youngest of 14 children, proclaimed baritone, and the first Croatian that had opportunity to sing at the New York Metropolitan in 1883 as Hamlet. First studied law, then opera and performed at La Scala, Covent Gardens and elsewhere. Louis Svedenski, (1862-1926) was born in Osijek. The violinist had a long and successful career in the United States. He studied in Zagreb and Vienna. In 1885, he accepted a bid from the Boston Symphony Orchestra as first violinist. He played the viola for the Kneisel Quartet for 33 years and was the director of New York’s Institute of Musical Art. On many occasions he toured America and Europe.Zlatko Balokovic (1895-1965), famous violinist virtuoso and political activist. He was born in Zagreb. During the peak of his career during the 1920’s and 1930’s, he performed throughout the entire world. His papers are part of the University of Minnesota, Croatian American Collectionhttp://www.1.umn.edu/ihrc/croatian.htm Emil Blazevic, (1880-1960) born in Kraljevica. A famed teacher of music and singing, he had his own school of music in New York. For more then fifty years he contributed as a singer, composer, conductor and popularizer of the tamburitza music. ÂIvo Pogorelic (1958), world-renowned pianist. He received his first piano lessons at the age of seven, and went to Moscow at the age of twelve to study at the Central Music School and then at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. In 1976 he began intensive studies with the renowned pianist and teacher Aliza Kezeradze with whom he was married from 1980 until her premature death in 1996. He won numerous international competitions. Ivo gave his debut recital in New York’s Carnegie Hall in 1981. He recorded mostly Chopin.http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/cosmo4/pogorelich.htm Lovro Pogorelic (1970), world-renowned pianist performed at Carnegie Hall several times with numerous international concerts. The works of Russian masters as well as Chopin have a significant place in his repertoire. Since 1998, Lovro has taught piano at the Academy of Music in Zagreb. In 1999, he founded The Summer Festival in the town of Pag and continues to serve as its artistic director. In 2001, he started teaching at the Lovro Pogorelic Summer Piano School in Koper, Slovenia. He lives in Zagreb, Croatia.ÂÂÂÂhttp://www.lovropogorelich.com/ The Bryant Park, the corner street sign on Sixth Avenue and 41st Street in Manhattan reads Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) A great inventor, Tesla had at least two labs in Manhattan. He spent his last days feeding pigeons in his beloved Bryant Park. Tesla was born in the village of Smiljan, Lika, Croatia. He came to New York in 1884. Tesla was a physicist, and one of the greatest scientists in the fields of electrical engineering. He projected the first hydroelectric power station at Niagara Falls using alternating induction (Tesla – T) was named after him. He died on January 7, 1943 in his room at the Hotel New Yorker. Tesla is portrayed in movies and several books. It is not widely known that the first hydroelectric power plant in the world has been built up in Croatia, on the beautiful Krka waterfalls. It brought light to the city of Sibenik. It was built in 1895, one year before Nikola Tesla’s famous power plant on the Niagara Falls. The chief engineer was Ante Supuk.http://www.hr/darko/etf One of the symbols of the United Nations is the “Horsewoman”, a sculpture of Anton Augustincic (1900–1979), which graces the garden in front of the United Nations at 46 Street & First Avenue, on the East side. The sculpture “Horsewoman” is a depiction of the Spirit of Peace. The bronze, female equestrian figure symbolizing the United Nations, in right hand holds the globe and in left hand holds the olive branch as a sign of Peace on Earth. In conversation with journalists at the opening of the monument in December 1954, Augustincic said that Peace is a woman because “if politics could be ruled by women, there will be no war!”. The monument has 10 meters high stand, which is made of the marble from the island of Brac. The equestrian sculpture is 5.5 meters high. Note one hoof raised; “Peace” is always wounded, never dead!http://mdc.hr/augustincic Augustincic was born in Klanjec in the Sutla river valley, surrounded by the lovely hills of Zagorje strewn with vineyards and green meadows. He studied under guidance of Ivan Mestrovic. Augustincic sculpture “Sleeping Girl” is the trademark of Klanjec. The place is known for its rich cultural tradition featuring prominent Croatian artists like Antun Mihanovic, poet and author of the Croatian national anthem. Zagorje is also the birthplace of Mirko Drazen Grmek (1924-2000) born in Krapina. He was director of International School for History of Science in Naples, Ischy, and Annecy, editor of several professional science lexicons as well as author of about 30 books. Grmek was the first president of Almae Mater Croaticae Alumni in Paris. AMAC also has a chapter in New York/New Jersey region. Franjo Tudjman (1922-1999) born in Velikom Trgoviscu in Zagorje, politician who founded HDZ. Tudjman was the first President of independent Croatian state. He visited New York several times.www.croatiaemb.org/tudjman/biography.html Josip Broz, often known by his military title as Marshal Tito (1892-1980) born in Kumrovec, Zagorje. Broz was the seventh of fifteen children born to Roman Catholic peasant parents. He was a politician and statesman. Tito, a Croatian Communist, founded partisans. Tito visited the White House and US in 1960, 1963, 1971 and 1978. He spoke at the United Nations.www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/tito Tito and the late Mayor of New York City, Fiorello LaGuardia played chess game together. Fiorello worked in Rijeka and spoke Croatian fluently. On October 11, 1991 Croatians held one of the biggest of several demonstrations in front of the United Nations for peaceful independence and against war in democratic Croatia.The magnificent mountain of Velebit, and the famous Primosten vineyards offer the unique beauty of Croatian landscape, where folk builders used dry stonewalls to protect every handful of soil from being washed away from the arid rocky terrain. Thus an amazing rocky lace of Primosten has been obtain over the centuries, whose large sized photo can be seen inside the building of United Nations at 1st Ave & 46 St.Âwww.un.org The white marble from the island of Brac, near small and lovely village of Pucisca, is highly appreciated among sculptors. Pucisca has a great tradition in stonemasonry. It was also used in building of the Battery Park in downtown New Yorkwww.thebattery.org ÂÂIvan Mestrovic (1883-1962) born in Vrpolje, Slavonia. As a sculptor, he was influential throughout the world. He has six magnificent bas-reliefs at the Hunter College School of Nursing, 425 East 25 Street. Partially it can be seen on their website at http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/health/nursing.html Born in 1883 in the Croatian village of Vrpolje in Slavonia, Mestrovic was the son of poor parents, who were unable to provide their talented son with the education he needed. So he tended sheep, living an isolated life in the Slavonian countryside. Eventually, however, his boyhood carvings in wood and stone attracted attention, and local monks gave him some work carving for them. When he was 15, he was introduced to a retired army officer, who started a fund to allow Mestrovic to receive some formal training. Finally, Mestrovic’s father took him to the city of Split, where he was apprenticed to a marble carver. A late immigrant to America, Mestrovic’s formative and early productive years were spent in his homeland and in other nations in Europe. After World War II, however, disillusioned with Croatian dictator Josip Broz Tito’s communist government, he came to America. He joined the art faculty of Syracuse University in upstate New York. Later, Mestrovic moved to the University Of Notre Dame, where he lived until his death in 1962.Âwww.geh.org/link/sn/mestrovic.htmlÂMestrovic sculpture “History of Croatia” portrays a woman sitting down with her head high, looking straight ahead towards the future, with her hands folded in a sign of prayer and holding a book, “History of Croatia.” This beloved artistic portrayal is all time favorite of Croatian people and widely copied among artists. According to Mestrovic will, there are only four originals located in Split, Zagreb, Belgrade and Pittsburgh, in the offices and museum of the Croatian Fraternal Union of America or CFU, which was founded in 1894. CFU also holds the Croatian national string instrument tamburitza, which is one of the hallmarks of Croatia. The orchestral tamburitza play started in Osijek in 1847. CFU has number of chapters in New York area, including “Lodge 1990 Kralj Tomislav”, “Lodge 789 Slobodna Hrvatska” and “Lodge 1981”.www.croatianfraternalunion.org ÂKristian Krekovic (1901-1985), an outstanding artist, born in Koprivina, near Tuzla. His art appears in the Law Library Columbia University and the Ambassador Hotel, 1956 in New York. His extensive opus of 143 large formal works, devoted to Croatian history, including 63 portraits of Croatian Dukes and Kings (from Porga from 620 till Stjepan Tomasevic in 1463), was unfortunately not preserved. Krekovic moved and worked in Peru, where he signed himself as “pintor croata or pintor croata – peruano.”ÂOton Gliha (1914-1999) depicted through his paintings his poetic impressions about hundreds of kilometers of dry stone walls called grimace, built on numerous Croatian islands during many centuries. Some of his paintings are held in the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Tate Gallery and Italy as well as France. Gliha’s art reveals an intimate relation between grimace and the structure of the Croatian Glagolitic Script.ÂJosip Crnobori, (1907-199?) born in Banjole, Istria. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Zagreb. As a painter, Josip had his first solo exhibition in 1937 and in Trieste in 1946. He moved to Argentina in 1947 until 1978. Moved to New York where he portrayed Milka Ternina for the Metropolitan Opera in 1985 among many others, including former President Reagan. ÂFrank Zotti, a banker and real estate owner in the 1920’s downtown Manhattan, near Wall Street. He was a powerful steamship agent who had over 300 agents recruiting passengers in Europe during peak immigration.www.newyorkfed.org ÂFrank Zachary (1914-199?), the son of Croatian immigrants. As a writer he had a 60-year career in publishing, as an editor, art-director and publicist. He was called catalyst-in-chief.http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm?contentalias=frankzachary ÂNarodni List or The National Gazette, was a daily Croatian newspaper in New York from 1898-1920. Copies of the newspaper are still available to see at the New York Public Library-Humanities and Social Sciences at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. It is one of the largest public libraries in the world, and arguably one of the best examples of Beaux Arts architecture. ÂMicrofilm of Narodni List is available at the University of Minnesota, the Croatian American Studies Fund. The Narodni List, was followed by weekly Domovina (1916-1917), tri-weekly Hrvatski List (1922-1928), Danica Hrvatska (1930-1941), New Yorski Tjednik (1973);Âhttp://www1.umn.edu/ihrc/endw-ccro.htm ÂAmong highly accomplished second generation of Croatians is Gene Rayburn (Jeljenich) (1917-1999) who was a comedian, announcer and television host. Before TV, Rayburn appeared on the daily radio program on New York’s WNEW. Daniel Antonovich with origins from Brac, was the fashion retailer in the garment center in the 70’s and 80’s.Gary Susnjara (1939-1993) was CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising. ÂDr. Henry Suzzalo (Zucalo),(1873-1933) Born in San Jose, California had a long and distinguished career in education. He received degrees from Stanford and Columbia University, Ph.D. 1905. After a period as professor of elementary education and the philosophy of education, he assumed the presidency of the University of Washington in 1915 until 1926. During his tenure, he made Washington an important university, increasing enrollment, raising academic standards, and creating new programs. In 1927, he became chairman of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He served as president of the foundation from 1930 until his death in 1933. Suzzallo also served as an advisor to President Woodrow Wilson during World War I, and was appointed to the War Labor Policy Board in 1918. He was concerned about Croatian immigrants throughout his life, and he never forgot hisDalmatian heritage. In his life and his work, Suzzallo promoted the democratic ideal. He believed in the great possibilities of American education and in its capacity to serve the individual searching for fulfillment. His books “Our Faith in Education” are examples of the commitment he always felt to the children of America. ÂJanko Polic Kamov (1886-1910), a writer, he died very young at the age of 24. He was a distinguished representative of Croatian and European avant-garde literature. This little known and very original writer was discovered more than 70 years after his premature death. Some distinguished American literary theorists consider him the greatest literary discovery of the 1900’s in America. Polic-Kamov’s short story “Freedom” was published in the New York magazine “Grand Street” in 1996. He was also published in Boston, California and Spain, where he died. ÂÂBogdan Radica (1904-1993), born in Split. He had a long and productive career as a journalist, cultural and literary critic, diplomat and professor of modern European history at Fairleigh-Dickinson University, New Jersey. In October 1945 he received an exit visa for Bari, Italy. In ’46 he returned to New York where Reader’s Digest published his article “Yugoslavia’s Tragic Lesson to the World.” He wrote numerous articles on his conversion from a Yugoslav and pro-Communist to a convinced Croatian patriot and anti-Communist. He divided his time in retirement between living in New York City and at his estate near Florence, Italy.ÂDr. Radovan Pavelic (1911-199?), born in Zagreb where he graduated in 1936 from University of Zagreb Medical School. He completed residency 1954-57 in New York specializing in Otolaryngology (Ear, nose, throat). Dr. Pavelic published 28 scientific articles in the field of otolaryngology. His son Radovan is a NYC lawyer. ÂJoseph Hitrec, a writer from Croatia. He came to America after years of wandering, mainly in India. In 1946, he published “Ruler’s Morning and Other Stories,” tales set in India. He has also published “Son of the Moon” (1948) and “Angel of Gaiety” (1951). He taught creative writing at the State University College in Buffalo, New York. Hitrec reviews were published in the New York Times Book Review and the Saturday Review. He translated into English the writings of Ivo Andric, the winner of 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature. ÂJulije Klovic or Giulio Clovio (1498-1578) as a painter, Klovic was the greatest European miniaturist of his time. He painted for the Roman Pope and for the Medici family in Florence. His portrait by El Greco was exhibited in 2003 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 84 St & Fifth Avenue. Klovic art can be seen at the Towneley Public Library and Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, which is in possession of “Officium Virginis.” Consisting of 228 pages, it’s his most famous and the best masterpiece, containing 30 valuable miniatures by his hand. His grave is situated near Michelangelo’s Moses in the church of Saint Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, and bears an inscription “Pictor de Croatia”. ÂGeorge Martin Skurla, (1921-2001) an engineer who graduated from University of Michigan, CEO of Grumman Aerospace on Long Island, directed assembly and pre-launch operations for NASA’s lunar modules, the first manned vehicles to reach the moon. His parents were Croatian. He was described as capable, charismatic and hard working. “He was demanding, yet caring,” says his son. “He was tough, but fair, strict, but forgiving.” ÂSanja Ivekovic (1949), born in Zagreb. Artist, painter exhibited internationally. Her art appears in the Museum of Modern Art at 53 St. off Fifth Avenue. Sanja also worked on her art project titled “Searching For My Mother’s Number”, a unique story of her mother, an Auschwitz survivor, where she spend the period from 1942-1945 with number 81969. “Letters to Auschwitz”, “Archive Findings” http://www.cromagazine.com/lexicon.htmÂRaymond Harding was born Branko?, in Zagreb. He was the former head of the Liberal Party in New York City. ÂLouis Zorich (1924), born in Chicago to Dalmatian parents. He is a character actor, who appeared in the “Fiddler on the Roof” in 1971 and many other films. With his wife, actress Olympia Dukakis, Zorich co-founded the “Whole Theater” in Montclair, New Jersey in 1972, maintaining it for 18 years before they close it and moved to California. ÂFrom the island of Manhattan, you can take a free ferry at the Staten Island Ferry at South Ferry Terminal. Commuters and tourists share some of the best views of the Southern tip of Manhattan while viewing the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and Verrazano Bridge. Some people speculate whether Verrazano is Vranjican and along with Marco Polo of Croatian origin? Marco Polo (1254-1324) according to rumors was born on Korcula Island and moved on to become Venetian adventurer and explorer, meritorious for his explorations of China. ÂEvery year Croatian runners participate in the New York City Marathon, a 27-mile run, making their way from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to Tavern on the Green in Central Park. The most famous park in New York City provides 843 acres of greensward in the center of Manhattan. In 2003 there were 34,729 runners, 12,000 volunteers and thousands of city employees assisting. Runners were cheered on by more than 2 million spectators lining the streets of New York City’s five boroughs: Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Manhattan. The event is televised globally, all celebrating friendship, sport, and human potential.Âwww.ingnycmarathon.org ÂEllis Island Immigration Museum holds the Croatian folk and peasant outfits as well as computerized history of some Croatian families arriving in New York.http://www.ellisisland.org ÂMate Angelich (1902-1999), born in Medici near Sinj, Croatia. Mate came to the US in the 1920’s. He along with other Croatians was part of construction crew building theGeorge Washington Bridge. Mate strung the suspension cables 600 feet above the Hudson River. At age 97, he was probably the last surviving member of the bridge’s construction crew. He learned auto mechanics and become the owner of auto dealership and service stations. At age 65 Mate started new business, a nursery where he raised thousands of beautiful azaleas, and made his own wine. He also took a strong interest in cow breeding at the family farm in New Hampshire. He was an active member of the Croatian New York Club and assisted with the annual beach picnic. He was married for 60 years to Keti. ÂAnthony Jovic, (1962-9/11/2001) died at the World Trade Center, firefighter of Engine Co. 279 for 12 years in Red Hook, Brooklyn. A son of Croatian longshoreman who grew up in Hell’s Kitchen. Jovic met his wife Cynthia when he was working at a butcher shop on Ninth Avenue and she, also a Croatian immigrant and longshoremen daughter, was working at a deli nearby. Anthony’s burned and mangled shield turned up in the south tower, but no remains have been identified.www.commemoratewtc.com/history/facts/battery.php ÂDr. Maria Kolak (1932) born in Brooklyn to Croatian parents. She is a Pediatrician in private practice in Forest Hills. She received her education in Zagreb and New York. Dr. Kolak is an employee for the City of New York, Health Department. Dr. Kolak was among the first doctors on the scene at the World Trade Center after 9/11/2001. She alerted the rescuers to wear the masks, gloves and overall protection during their rescue mission. ÂIgor Kordey, comic book artist. He is a Croatian who immigrated to Canada. He witnessed the war and terrorism in former Yugoslavia during the 1990’s. He draws Cable, a Marvel comic about a hero who fights terrorists in Peru and intervenes in wars in former Y. After Sept. 11, 2001 Kordey persuaded the Marvel editors not to delete a Cable scene in which terrorists drive a truck bomb into a building in Lima. “You are not supposed to pretend they don’t exist,” said Kordey. ÂSlavenka Drakulic (1949), an award-winning writer born in Croatia. “S. –A Novel About the Balkans”, “Café Europa-Life after Communism”, “How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed”, “Balkan Express: Fragments From the Other Side of War”, “Deadly Sins of Feminism”, fiction “Holograms of Fear”, “Marble Skin”, “The Taste of a Man.” Her books have been published in 13 countries and translated into twelve languages. Visited New York many times to receive a Fulbright Fellowship for writers, attend conferences, give presentations, sign up with the New York publisher and do book signing.http://www.crowmagazine.com/lexicon.htm “Slavenka is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world.” –Gloria Steinem. “Slavenka is a writer of great sensitivity, intelligence, and grace.” –Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winner. ÂDr. Ivo Banac (1947) born in Dubrovnik. Immigrated to USA in 1957 with his mother where they joined Banac’s father, a ship captain, who had emigrated from Yugoslavia 11 years earlier. An excellent student, Banac completed graduate studies at Stanford University in 1971. Four years later, he successfully defended a doctoral thesis entitled “National problem at the time of the formation of Yugoslavia”. Since 1977 he has been teaching history at Yale University in New Heaven, Connecticut. Banac has been tenured professor since 1988, and from 1988-1995 he was the dean of the Pearson College at Yale. Banac has written several well-received books. In 2003, Banac was appointed Minister of the Environment in Croatia. ÂThe earliest known sporting event in Croatia is from the 18th century (1764). Since then Croatians have excelled in sports. ÂMany Croatian tennis players have participated at the US Open tennis tournaments in New York. First was Nikola Pilic (1939) born in Split - 1970 US Open Men’s Doubles Champion. After spending years working in Germany, Pilic now serves as the Captain of the Croatian Davis Cup. Pilic’s success was followed by Iva Majoli (1977) born in Zagreb, 1997 French Open Championhttp://espn.go.com/tennis/majoli/html , Goran Ivanisevic (1971), born in Split, was the 2001 Wimbledon Championwww.goranivanisevic.com , Silvija Talaja, Goran Prpic, Jelena Kostanic, Mario Ancic, Sanja Ancic, Ivan Ljubicic, Mirjana Lucic-1998 Australian Doubles Tournament Champion, Ivo Karlovic, Nada Pavic, Roko Karanusic and others who played successfully at the US Open tennis tournaments for many years.Zeljko Franulovic (1947) born in Split, was famous player in ‘70s and later became the vice-president of the ATP and tournament director in Europe.ÂMadison Square Garden hosted Croatians including basketball players such as Toni Kukoc (1968), from Split, Europe’s biggest name in the NBA, selected by the Chicago Bulls in 1990, member of silver-medal winning Croatia Olympic Team in 1992. Dino Radja played forward, height 6’11”, NBA from ‘94-97 for Boston Celtics, a member of the Croatian Olympic team. Kresimir Cosic (1948-1995), was a professional basketball player. He was the first foreign player to earn All-American honors by United Press International in 1972 and 1973. He played for Brigham Young University from ’71-73. Cosic took part in four Olympic Games in 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1980. Sandra Bezic, her family is originally from Solta near Split. They immigrated to Canada. Bezic is a world-renowned choreographer, commentator, ice skating coach, competitor, TV announcer and author of the book “The Passion to Skate: An Intimate View of Figure Skating”.ÂDrazen Petrovic (1964–1993), born in Sibenik and grew up in Split. “Petro” played with Nets until his tragic death in a car accident. Petrovic was enshrined in the Hall of Fame on Sept. 27, 2002. In his honor, every year a Croatian student receives a scholarship paid by Nets.www.hoophall.com ÂA memorial for Petrovic drew hundreds, including MikeCelizic who writes regularly for NBCSports.com and is a freelance writer based in New York. He wrote the “Courage: True Stories of American Sports Heroes”, “The Biggest Game of Them All: Notre Dame, Michigan State, and the Fall of ‘66”, “Moments of Truth.” ÂAmong the most popular sports is soccer. The first international soccer match was held in 1907. The soccer clubHajduk from Split who has visited New York and played in a friendly game against local amateur group “Croatia New York”. Outside of Croatia, in Europe, Americas and Australia, there are over 100 soccer clubs bearing the name Croatia. ÂMario Preskar, (1984) boxer from Zagreb. 19 years old was 7-time Croatian amateur boxing Champion and second in Europe as an amateur Heavyweight at the age of 17. His fight in Atlantic City during 2003 was cancelled. ÂIrena Peharda, West Point Cadet graduate who also completed the Airborne School in Fort Benning, Georgia. As a paratrooper she received a pin, which is a parachute with wings. Twenty-year old Irena decided on her own to go through arduous airborne training, the same that the elite U.S. commandos known as the Green Berets also receive. ÂDario Solman (1973), an artist. He was the first Croatian participant of the P.S.1.’s International Studio Program in Queens. Prior to his residency at P.S.1, Solman has completed graduate studies in arts at the Ohio State University. He has exhibited widely and has taught at the Arts Academy in Split. Solman received support from Mercy Bona Pavelic and many others. His web sitehttp://dariosolman.tripod.com/ ÂAmong most successful business people during the present time is chef Lidia Matticchio Bastianich. Lidia was born in 1947 in the village near Pula, Istria. She learned how to cook from her mother and grandmother and took her Istrian skills all the way to America. Lidia is now restaurant owner of Felidia on East 58 Street, cookbook author of four books and fantastically popular 52 part public television series PBS-TV chef. She prefers to market her business as Italian and considers her family ethnic Italian, but also speaks fluent Croatian. Lidia is a long time member of the “Istrian Club,” a not-for-profit group in New York who assist Istrians in Croatia. From her childhood in Istria, Lidia recalls trips to the market, harvesting olives for olive oil, collecting mussels and clams at the seashore and sleeping under the stars on a mattress filled with dry cornhusks on summer nights. Lidia remembers going with her grandmother to the communal mill to grind the wheat into flour for pasta and bread. This “from the earth” understanding and respect for food has given her a definite style as a cook. Nada Brnic, owner of the restaurant Terrace in the Sky at 400 West 119 St. Born on Rab, Nada along with her husband Nereo Valencic bought and renovated several hotels on the island Rab.www.terraceinthesky.com Ivanac family from Brela, are owners of Villa Berulia, 107 East 34 St, and Trio Restaurants, 167 E 33 St. Ivanac family, who have owned and operated Villa Berulia since 1981, import home-grown products, culled from their private estate on the Dalmatian coast, including grappas, extra virgin oil, cured meats and cheeses. They also serve Croatian wine such as Dingac from Peljesac, Frankovka Grasevina Riesling and Vrbnicka Zlahtina from Slavonia, Katunar Zlahtina from Krk.www.triorestaurant Among Croatians writers, writing mostly in English is award-winning author Josip Novakovich. As in his previous books, Novakovich continues to write universal stories about growing up in Croatia. “When I am in Croatia, I feel American. Of course, in America I feel Croatian. I am hyphenated between two cultures, and I will never integrate the two, but will suffer always from multicultural schizophrenia, or rather, bicultural psychosis.” After his first visit to America, he writes, “You can leave another country to go to the States, but once you get into the States, the States get into you, and there’s hardly any way of leaving. Even if you do, you carry America with you!” His publications include three collections of stories, “Apricots from Chernobyl” (1955), “Yolk” (1995), and “Salvation and Other Disasters” (1998). He has also written two books on the art of writing and co-edited “Stories in the Stepmother Tongue” (2000), a book of stories written in English by immigrant writers in the United States. Tomislav Novakovic, a filmmaker and screenwriter, a graduate from Columbia University, who produced “Are They Still Shooting” in New York using many Croatians as main actors. Igor Sunara, (1945) born in Varazdin. He is a filmmaker, visual arts designer and photographer. Produced music videos and completed television and documentary work. He teaches cinematography. In 1996 organized a movie festival of ten well-known classic features from Croatia and fifteen famous cartoons from the Zagreb School of Animation. Arsen Ostojic, film director and producer of short film “The Bird Lover” and “The Model” shot in New York. Has production company Cronus Films, Inc. Boris Mardesic (193?), a painter born on Vis. He had numerous solo exhibits in Europe and in NYC with a long time studio in Astoria. Returned to Croatia since and lives in Pula. Ivo Skoric (1964), born in Bonn, Germany. A freelance journalist, he wrote his own unpublished story. Skoric produced numerous articles and interviews including one with Krist Novoselic, a musician. As a student activist, Ivo worked on Radio 101 in Zagreb as a commentator. Moved to US in 1990 where he worked on Hrvatski Monitor radio program and supported himself as a lifeguard, licensed personal trainer, snowboard instructor and Webmaster. Along with his wife Indira Kajosevic, Ivo is a co-director of Raccoon Inc.www.balkansnet.org a not-for-profit organization assisting people from former Yugoslavia. Raccoon’s financial donor is The New York Foundation, among others. ÂDenis Licul (1959), born in Labin, Istria. She was educated in Zagreb and Rijeka. Artist specializing in ceramics, exhibited in Italy, Egypt, US and Croatia. Licul works in Croatian Consulate in New York.Âwww.arsa.hr/denisliculzustovic.htm Karlo Mirth (1917), born in Otocac, Lika. A librarian and publisher, he received a Master’s degree in engineering in 1942 in Zagreb. In May 1945 he managed to reach Italy with thousands of other refugees. He studied journalism in Rome until 1947 where he started to publish Croatia Press. He moved to Madrid, Spain until 1951. In 1962 he obtained his M.S. in Library Science at Columbia University. Mirth is active in Croatian Academy of America, Inc. Its Journal published since 1960 is a scholarly publication dedicated to the Croatian history & culturewww.croatianacademy.org Karina Longin (1982), a professional model from Zadar. She carried her first collection at 13. Karina’s second home is in New York City. Nenad Bach, a recording artist, composer and performer. Born in Zagreb, Nenad arrived in US in 1984.http://www.nenadbach.com An activist in Croatian community, founder of e-zinewww.CroatianWorld.net ÂThe Croatian community of New York has hosted many Croatian artists such as Tereza Kesovijahttp://tereza-kesovija.com Mate Miso Kovac, Doris Dragovic, Thompson Marko Perkovic, Vera Svoboda, Kico Krunoslav Slabinac, Ivanka Luetic, Oliver Dragojevic, Josipa Lisac, Vice Vukov, Arsen Dedic, Marko Novosel, Matko Jelavic, Vinko Coce, Zdravko Skender, Zlatko Pejakovic, Duka Caic, Tomislav Ivcic, Dani Marsan, Drazen Zanko, Zlatni Dukati, Milo Hrnic, “Dubrovacki Trubadori” the group “Prljavo Kazaliste,” “Magazin”, Zeljko Bebek (the ex-frontman of Bijelo Dugme), group “Zabranjeno Pusenje”; Folklore group “Lado”, girls choir “Zvjezdice” and many others. The chief at the Croatian National Tourist Office is Nena Komarica. The office is located in the Empire State Building at 350 Fifth Avenue located on 40th floor overlooking the magnificent Manhattan skylinewww.croatia.hr Croatians in New York continue to thrive in every field imaginable. Several are owners of restaurants, most of them marketing as Italian. A section of Queens, called Astoria is still the place where Croatians are able to find affordable housing and good homemade cooking in clubs such as Rudar Soccer Club and Istrian Sports Club. There are several café’s, bars, travel agencies, construction companies, butcher shop selling Croatian products and a church Most Precious Blood serving approximately 1,000 Croats and teaching Croatian language to the new generation. Media is covered by e-magazinewww.CroatianWorld.net Â, three weekly radio stations, and a newspaper The Croatian Americancroatianamerican@aol.com in English & Croatian “novine za Americke Hrvate” run by Vjekoslav Krsnik from Split. There are church newsletters including “Korijen”, brand new Croatian Chronicle and “Sutra Croatian Magazine” by Josip Remenar. The Croatian-American Chamber of Commerce can be reached at tel. (718) 937-4040; there are have numerous not-for-profit groups operating, as well as a cultural group Croatian Association Napredak (718) 353-0069 and “Klapa Astorija,” a Capella singing group performing since 1993 consisting of 11 members. Thanks to the efforts of Sanja Crnkovic, the Public Library has Croatian Pages atwww.queenslibrary.org , go to “WorldLinQ” and than click “Croatian”. On the other side of Manhattan, across the Hudson River, Croatians are scattered all over New Jersey. In Fairview, Father Giordano Belanich serves Croatians as part of the St. John the Baptist’s Church. With tremendous storage space available, Father Belanich has for many years collected and shipped items to Croatia to assist most needy.www.croatianrelief.org Croatian Land at Boonton, New Jersey belongs to the Sts. Cyril & Methodius from Manhattan. More then 100 acres of land is available to the parishioners to celebrate summer mass in the open, play soccer and enjoy picnics. 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He was killed in the First world war.  ...Preskar Posted by: Cyndie Preskar on April 4, 2002 Name 1: Preskar Name 2: Skebe Location: Zuzemberk; Sveti Kriz Joseph Preskar died age 45 circa 1932 and lived in America for 15 years before and married Ana Skebe from Zuzemberk in America and had 6 children. He died from being kicked in the stomach by a cow. If anyone knows any information or knows any relatives, please contact me. Thank you! Cynthia  ...Prijatelj Posted by: Tea Vogric on September 21, 2001 Name 1: Prijatelj Name 2: Volf, Ozbolt Location: Trsce, Cabar, Gerovo Gabrijela Volf, b.1893, lived with her family in Trsce. There she meets Franjo Prijatelj, b.1880 or 1881 in Male Lascice, Slovenia. Moved to Milanov vrh, where in 1913 and 1914 had two boys, Franc and Zdrvako, both decesed in 1918, 1919 in Velike Lasce, Slovenia. In 1920 had girl Danica in Milanov vrh and in 1922 had girl Ruza Zdenka in Ivankovo near Vinkovci. After WW1 lived in Slovenia, he died in Dahau concentration camp in 1945. Searching for birth records of F.Prijatelj and all records for Volf family http://pikacom.com/sloancestors/  ...Princip Posted by: Princip on November 29, 2001 Name: Princip Location: Croatia Zelim skupiti podatke, ako je to dostupno, o mojim predcima.Moje prezime je Princip. Thanks  ...Psenicnik Posted by: Mirjana Psenicnik on August 5, 2001 Name: Psenicnik Location: Pregrad I live in Toronto, Canada at the moment. I'm looking for information on my grandfather (Srecko Psenicnik)'s ancestors and his extended family. He was born in Pregrada in 1921 but at the age of 19 went to Italy where he got a degree in Political Sciences. He moved to America where he lived from 1945 on (Argentina, Venezuela and until 1995 in Canada). He moved back in 1995 to Croatia until his death 2 years ago. If you have any information, about him or his family, it would be wonderful to talk! So please write me!  ...Puharic Posted by: Claudia (Puharich) Mac Bride on April 25, 2001 Name 1: Puharic Name 2: Stupac Location: Croatia (?) Emanuel Puharic, son of Ludovic Puharic and Maria Stupac was born 26 March 1890. Brother, Marion, sisters, Josephine, Nina and Maria. Emanuel came to the USA in the early 1900's. Lived in San Francisco, California,USA. I am his granddaughter and don't have much on dates or places.  ...Puljevic Posted by: Puljevic on October 30, 2002 - Find my ancestors Name 1: Puljevic Name 2: Buljevic Location: Metkovic, Croatia My fathers name is Jerko Puljevic, he was born in Metkovic in 1954, his fathers name was Ante Puljevic his mothers name is Marija Puljevic. He has a brother called Ivan and a sister called Manda. Please help me find my family tree, my father thinks that our surname used to be Buljevic in the 1800's  ...Pusic; Mihaljevic Posted by: Zdenka on March 8, 2001 Name 1: Pusic Name 2: Mihaljevic Location: Croatia (?) Can anybody help me to find any relatives of Ivan Pusic Roeck and Zdenka Mihaljevic (his wife); they inmigrated to Perú (South America) around 1950. Best Regards, Zdenka  ...Puz Posted by Debi Lewis on June 23, 2001 - Descendants of Jelena (Helene) Puz Name 1: Jelena Puz Name 2: Andro Ruzic Location: Croatia Generation No. 1  1. Jelena (Helene) Puz was born Bef. 1874. She married Andro Ruzic, son of Mate Ruzic and Marija Sepic. He was born Feb 16, 1858, and died Nov 10, 1929  Children of Jelena Puz and Andro Ruzic:  i. Andrija "Andy" (2) Ruzic, b. Jul 20, 1887, Austria; d. Sep 20, 1967, Pittsburgh, PA.  ii. Franjo Ruzic, b. May 30, 1890 2. iii. Jela Ruzic, b. Apr 13, 1892, Yugoslavia / Croatia; d. Resided in PA 3. iv. Josip Ruzic, b. Oct 28, 1893, Puzi (Croatia); d. Mar 28, 1964, Huntington, Cabell, WV 4. v. Anton Ruzic, b. Dec 13, 1895  vi. Rudolf Ruzic, b. Jun 6, 1897  vii. Dragutin Ruzic, b. Jul 20, 1905  viii. Ludvik Ruzic, b. Jun 13, 1909 Generation No. 2  2. Jela (2) Ruzic (Jelena (Helene)1 Puz) was born Apr 13, 1892 in Yugoslavia / Croatia, and died in Resided in PA  Child of Jela Ruzic:  i. Daughter Russick, b. of Youngstown, PA    3. Josip (2) Ruzic (Jelena (Helene)1 Puz)1 was born Oct 28, 1893 in Puzi (Croatia), and died Mar 28, 1964 in Huntington, Cabell, WV. He married Hazel Skaggs Mar 30, 1935 in Huntington, Cabell Co, WV (by Orville Holley), daughter of Bernard Skaggs and Sarah Caudill. She was born Abt. 1910 in Hitchins, Carter Co, KY, and died Mar 30, 1999 (on her birthday)  Children of Josip Ruzic and Hazel Skaggs:  i. Helen (3) Russick, b. Abt. 1935; m. George Tomlin  ii. Mary Russick, b. Dec 20, 1937; m. (1) Stephen (1) Biss; b. Jul 28, 1941, CA; d. Jul 1975; m. (2) Michael Macera  iii. Joann Russick, b. Jul 2, 1939, Huntington, Cabell, WV; m. Jerrald Roland Lewis, Jun 27, 1959, Huntington, Cabell, WV 25704; b. Mar 22, 1939, Huntington, Cabell, WV  iv. Orpha Russick, b. Btn. 1940 - 1947; m. Jerry Henson  v. Jerry Ray Russick, b. Aug 7, 1948; d. Nov 3, 1962, Huntington, Cabell, WV 25704    4. Anton (2) Ruzic (Jelena (Helene)1 Puz) was born Dec 13, 1895. He married Marije Kalcic 1920.  Children of Anton Ruzic and Marije Kalcic are:  i. Robert (3) Ruzic, b. Jan 15, 1923; d. Aug 14, 1989, N.Gorica, Gortanova Street 23, Slovenia  ii. Marija Ruzic, b. Apr 1, 1928; m. Joseph Krt, Jan 16, 1950, Mucici Endnotes 1. Cabell County Records - Marriage Books, Book 5, p275 (#10). Comment on any of the above listed surnames Genealogy in Croatia http://www.appleby.net/genealogy/listP5.html letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Mon, 15 Dec 2003 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5780/1/E-Croatian-into-English-into-Croatian.html ÂCroatian into English into Croatian into EnglishWord Translator for Windows (English to Croatian) 5.3Word Translator for Windows is a bilingual dictionary and translation program.Shareware from Translation Experts Ltd.,Report out of date resulthttp://www.downseek.com/download/11792.asp http://www.downseek.com http://www.downseek.com/download/11792.asp http://www.downseek.com/search/?f=Croatian Language Extender: Croatian 2.0.72Language Extender (LE) provides the localization of Windows CE OS and a built-in applications interface to your native language and enables native keyboard layouts.Demo from Paragon Software,Report out of date resultOp-edIt need much improvement especially on S-Croatian myth. But interesting.NB letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Sun, 07 Dec 2003 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5783/1/E-Facts-about-Croatia.html ÂFacts about CroatiaASSOCIATED PRESS Nov. 22 — CAPITAL: Zagreb, population 1 million. GEOGRAPHY: Bordered by Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia-Montenegro and Bosnia, Croatia is slightly smaller than Ireland. It has a varied landscape, ranging from lush valleys and fields in the east to forests in its interior and a long Adriatic Sea coastline dotted with hundreds of islands. PEOPLE: 4.5 million. Main ethnic minorities are Serbs, Italians and Hungarians. Average monthly wage roughly $625. LANGUAGE: Croatian. RELIGION: 80 percent Roman Catholic, with small Orthodox, Muslim and Jewish communities. POLITICS: Croatia declared its independence in 1991, prompting its Serb minority to take up arms in an effort to keep the republic from breaking away from Yugoslavia. At least 10,000 people were killed in the six-month war. Sporadic fighting ended in 1995, when Croatia recaptured about a third of its territory seized by the Serb rebels. From 1991-2000, the nationalist Croatian Democratic Union ruled the country. A pro-Western coalition took power three years ago after the death of nationalist President Franjo Tudjman. Earlier this year, the country applied for membership in the European Union and hopes to join as early as 2007. Croatia also hopes to join NATO in its next round of enlargement.  2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved. Source:http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap11-22-111747.asp?reg=EUROPE letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Sat, 22 Nov 2003 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5782/1/E-Key-facts-on-Croatias-general-election-2003.html ÂKey facts on Croatia's general election ZAGREB, Nov. 23. 2003 — Following are key facts about Croatia's parliamentary election on Sunday. POLLING STATIONS: 6,974 in 12 electoral units. Croatia is divided into 10 electoral units, plus one for the Diaspora and one for ethnic minorities. VOTING HOURS: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. (0600-1800 GMT). NUMBER OF VOTERS: 3.97 million in Croatia plus 400,000 in the diaspora, mainly in Bosnia-Herzegovina. PREVIOUS ELECTIONS: January 2000, a reformist centre-left alliance ousted the nationalist HDZ party, which led Croatia to independence in 1991. ELECTORAL SYSTEM: Proportionate, with a five percent threshold for each electoral unit. Croatia has a single-chamber assembly with the number of seats varying from 150 to 160, depending on the turnout among ethnic minorities and Croats living outside Croatia. NUMBER OF PARTIES AND PARTICIPANTS: 405 lists (parties, coalitions and independent lists) with 5,119 participants.MAIN PARTIES: RULING COALITION: Social Democrats (SDP) -- reformed communists led by Prime Minister Ivica Racan. Strongest party in coalition, criticised for pushing through market reforms at the expense of welfare. Despite strong pro-European agenda, cooperation with U.N. war crimes tribunal during their rule has been patchy. They promise more reforms, jobs and multi-rate Value Added Tax. Croatian People's Party (HNS) -- The most liberal party in the coalition. Very outspoken, although has only one cabinet minister and two members in parliament. It appeals to urban intellectual voters, supports a full investigation of all war crimes committed by Croats, and remains committed to a coalition with the SDP. The Peasant Party (HSS) -- The only conservative party in the alliance, the HSS has often contradicted coalition partners by urging slower privatisation and a greater state role in the economy. Party chief Zlatko Tomcic has indicated he might join a coalition government with either the left- or right-wing bloc, depending on ''compatibility of programmes.'' OPPOSITION: Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) -- The former nationalist party founded by the late President Franjo Tudjman, the HDZ has recently reformed, purged its ranks of hardliners and put forward a reformist pro-Western agenda. It supports all reforms needed for European Union and NATO entry. Diplomats remain sceptical about its pro-European reformist credentials. Democratic Centre (DC) and Social Liberal party (HSLS) -- An alliance between HDZ renegades, the DC, and the HSLS, which quit the ruling coalition in 2002. Despite its centrist label, it has many rightwing ideas, including a reluctance to cooperate fully with the war crimes tribunal. Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) -- The most radical major party on the right, the HSP has recently sought to improve its image, and its leader plans a trip to Israel to pay respect to victims of the Holocaust. It does not support the return of Serb refugees or full cooperation with the war crimes tribunal. Copyright 2003 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Sat, 22 Nov 2003 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5781/1/EH-Time-Zones-Vremenske-Zone-u-Svijetu.html ÂCustomized World ClockYou do not need to guess any more. Just click and find what is the time in ...Zagreb, Buenos Aires etc. Ne morate vise nagadjati koje je vrijeme u Zagrebu, Sydneyu..etc.http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/custom.html?sort=1 Currently sorted by city name. 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Bach) Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5784/1/E-Environmental-Data-in-and-for-Croatia.html ÂEnvironmental DataH.E. Mr. Ivo BANACMinister of Environmental Protection and Physical PlanningUlica Republike Austrije 20, Zagreb, CROATIATel +385 1 3782 444Tel +385 1 3782 143Fax +385 1 3772 555ured@predsjednik.hr premijer@vlada.hr H.E. Mr. Bozo KOVACEVICMinister of Environmental Protection and Physical PlanningUlica Republike Austrije 20, Zagreb, CROATIATel +385 1 3782 444Tel +385 1 3782 143Fax +385 1 3772 555Ivana MijatovicState Directorate for EnvironmentUlicia grada Vukovara 7810000 ZagrebCroatiaTel.: +385 1 610 65 14Fax: +385 1 6112 073ivana.mijatovic@mzopu.hr Contact Croatian environmental organizations and academic institutes with an interest in environmental issues:Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb. Web: www.hazu.hr. Promotes scientific research; national member of the International Council for Science (ICSU), listed in Part 3.*Eurocoast-Hrvatska (Eurocoast-Croatia), Zagreb. Web:http://zg.biol.pmf.hr/~eurocoast . IUCN member. Founded 1993. Conservation of Croatia's coastal region.*Hrvatsko Biolosko Drustvo (Croatian Biological Society),Environmental Department, Croatian Natural History Museum, Demetrova 1, 10000 Zagreb. T: (385 1) 4851-700. Fax: (385 1) 4851-644. IUCN member. Focus is environmental education and habitat conservation.*Hrvatsko Prirodoslovno Drustvo (HPD) (Croatian Society for Natural Sciences),P.O. Box 258, 10001 Zagreb. T/Fax: (385 1) 4812-408. IUCN member. Learned society founded in 1885.Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb. Web: www.irb.hr. Largest Croatian independent research institution for the natural sciences. Includes a Center for Marine and Environmental Research (CMER).Zelen Akcija (Green Action), Zagreb. Web: www.zelena-akcija.hr . Founded 1990. Affiliated with Friends of the Earth International (www.foei.org ) Contact EU and US grant funding bodies on the environment:EU funded:Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern EuropeIrena Brnada, Country Representative (Croatia)Contact address:Djordjiceva 8a, HR-10000 Zagreb, CroatiaTel: +385 (0)1 4810-774, 492-1117Tel/Fax: +385 (0)1 4810-844Ecolinks Tel/Fax: +385 (01) 487-3622E-mail: rec@rec-croatia.hr Web: www.rec-croatia.hr US funded:Ecolinks, a USAID initiative, keeps tabs on this issue.The article below is from their website. You may want to contact the USAID liaison for Ecolinks:Gerald Gold1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, RRB Rm 5.07-76Washington, DC 20523-5601 United StatesPhone: (202) 712-0263Fax: (202) 216-3014E-Mail: ggold@usaid.gov UN Environment Programme, based in Norway, also funds a program for Central Europe.Otto SimonettManager, Capacity Building Programme (for Central and Eastern Europe)Telephone: +41 22 917 8342Email: otto.simonett@grida.no *********NGO environmental organizations:environmental911@sierraclub.orgSierra ClubNational Headquarters85 Second Street, 2nd FloorSan Francisco, CA 94105USAPhone: 415-977-5500Fax: 415-977-5799Sierra ClubLegislative Office408 C St., N.E.Washington, DC 20002USAPhone: 202-547-1141Fax: 202-547-6009*****************GreenpeaceGreenpeace InternationalKeizersgracht 176, 1016 DW Amsterdam, NetherlandsTel +31 20 523 62 22 Fax +31 20 523 62 00Greenpeace European UnitHaachtsesteenweg 159 - 1030 Brusselsnew phone: 32 2 274 19 00new fax: 32 2 274 19 10e-mail: european.unit@diala.greenpeace.orgUSAGreenpeace USA702 H Street NW, Suite 300, Washington DC 20001, USA.Tel +1 202 462 1177Fax +1 202 462 4507e-mail greenpeace.usa@wdc.greenpeace.org-- letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. 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It will also raise awareness of the advantages of learning other languages in terms of employability, mental stimulation and social interaction. letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Fri, 08 Aug 2003 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5788/1/E-NATIONAL-DO-NOT-CALL-REGISTRY.html ÂDo Not Call Registryhttp://www.donotcall.gov/ WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THENATIONAL DO NOT CALL REGISTRYMost telemarketers cannot call your telephone number if it is in the National Do Not Call Registry. You can register your home and mobile phone numbers for free. Your registration will be effective for five years.If you register Most telemarketers must stop callingand you may file a complaintJune 27 - August 31, 2003 After October 1, 2003September 1, 2003 or after Three months after you register letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Wed, 06 Aug 2003 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5787/1/E-US-Library-of-Congress-recognizes-CROATIAN-language.html ÂUS Library of Congress recognizes CROATIAN languageFrom: nadan.petri@morh.hr To: CroWorldNet@aol.com ÂJust wanted to share great news with everybody, especially with allCroatian physicians at home and in the world.Thank you guys from CROWN for your support in this delicate matter.I would say that we did it!Many thanks and congratulations everybody!CDR Nadan M. Petri, MD, PhDNaval Medical Institute of the Croatian Navy21000 Split, p/o box 196 (HRM)Republic of CroatiaDate: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 16:00:56 -0400From: "James Marcetich" MarcetiJ@mail.nlm.nih.gov To: nadan.petri@morh.hr Dear Dr. Petri,Wanted you to know that we have checked with the US Library of Congress to see if they have updated their language designations...and they have. Croatian and Serbian are now considered to be separate languages.We will be working to correspondingly update the language designations in MEDLINE/PubMed, but it is likely to take some weeks to accomplish. The work will be done as soon as practically possible.Thank you again for your correspondence.Sincerely yours,James MarcetichHead, Index SectionNational Library of Medicine8600 Rockville PikeBethesda, Maryland 20894james_marcetich@nlm.nih.gov 301-496-3262301-402-2433 (FAX)Op-edDear Nadan,Thanks to your persistence and a lead, battles like this, we win. Leverage that CROWN produces is something that we should've had long time ago, but better ever then never. The job is not done yet, but as I mentioned in my letter to the US Library of Congress: If they want to be backwards, that is their choice. What we are doing is inevitable and will be changed, regardless of what they say or think today or tomorrow. In a month, two, three, six or even 12, the world will recognize what we are fighting for. Name of the language is our right, not privilege. Longer they resist, longer they are part of the past and not the future that is more just and fair.Thank you again,Nenad letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Wed, 06 Aug 2003 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5789/1/H-Katehetski-uredi.html ÂKatehetski urediKatehetski ured dubrovacke biskupijedon. Petar Palic, predstojnikPoljana Paska Milicevica 4 - pp 8520 000 DubrovnikTelefon: (020) 323 389Fax: (020) 323 393E-mail: biskupija@du.tel.hr Katehetski ured dakovacke i srijemske biskupijedr. Ivica Pažin, predstojnikTajnica: s. Lucila ZovakStrossmayerov trg 4, 31 400 ÐakovoTelefon: (031) 802 303Fax: (031) 811 974 Katehetski ured gospicko-senjske biskupijeNikola Turkalj, predstojnikTajnica: prof. Vesna GomercicTrg dr. 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Katarina SaganicSlaviše Vajnera Cice 2, 51 000 RijekaTelefon: (051) 337 999Fax: (051) 215 287E-mail: rijecka-nadbiskupija@ri.hinet.hr Katehetski ured splitsko-makarske nadbiskupijemr. don Josip Periš, predstojnikTajnica: Nada VukovicZrinsko-Frankopanska 19, 21 000 SplitTelefon: (021) 384 411Fax: (021) 384 411E-mail: katehetskiuredsplit@hi.hinet.hr Katehetski ured šibenske biskupijeMsgr. Dominik Škevin, predstojnikObala palih omladinaca 1, 22 000 ŠibenikTelefon: (022) 201 012Fax: (022) 201 010 Katehetski ured varaždinske biskupijemr. Damjan Koren, predstojnikTajnica: s. Beata PrkacinPavlinska 4, 42 000 VaraždinTelefon: (042) 320 180Fax: (042) 320 180E-mail: katehetski.ured@vz.hinet.hr Katehetski ured zadarske nadbiskupijemr. don Gašpar Dodic, predstojnikTajnica: Darija SantiniTrg Sv. Stošije 1, 23 000 ZadarTelefon: (023) 208 632Fax: (023) 208 632 Katehetski ured zagrebacke nadbiskupijedr. 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Quiet and spacious boarding. Opened Tues-Fri 9:00 a.m. -7:00 p.m. and Sat 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Located at Yarbrough Park, 1455 OldBridge Road, Woodbridge, VA 22192. letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5791/1/E-Encyclopedia-Britannica-2002-Year-in-Review---CROATIA.html Encyclopedia Britannica 2002 Year in ReviewCROATIAby Max PrimoracArea: 56,542 sq km (21,831 sq mi)Population (2002 est.): 4,405,000Capital: ZagrebChief of state: President Stipe MesicHead of government: Prime Minister Ivica RacanIn 2002 Croatia continued to see its political landscape fragment and the broad-based ruling coalition split further amid slow economic recovery. On July 5 the five-party coalition government of Prime Minister Ivica Racan re-signed, only to reconstitute itself absent the second largest party in the coalition, the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS), following the latter's refusal to support ratification of a Croatia-Slovenia agreement concerning joint custodianship of the Krsko nuclear power plant. The break between Racan's Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the HSLS, led by Deputy Prime Minister Drazen Budisa, reflected long-brewing ideological differences over basic policy decisions made by the SDP-led government. Disaffected deputies from the HSLS, led by Defense Minister Jozo Rados, who had been soundly defeated by Budisa for party president on February 2, rebelled in support of the SDP and founded a new party, Libra.ÂThe flap over Krsko, however, was just one of many disputes between the two neighbours. In August and September a squabble over territorial boundaries in the Bay of Piran that pitted Slovenian against Croatian fishermen turned into a full-fledged diplomatic crisis. These and other serious border disputes with Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia highlighted the country's inability to extricate itself from unresolved post-secessionist problems stemming from the breakup of Yugoslavia more than a decade earlier. Though Croatia was admitted into NATO's Membership Action Plan and initialed its formal application for full membership on May 14, it was apparent by year's end that the government would fail to deliver on its major electoral promise of securing Croatia's early admission into NATO and the European Union-essential steps in the country's integration into Western Europe. The end of the United Nations' monitoring mission in the strategic Prevlaka Peninsula on December 15 restored Croatia's sovereignty over its full territory, however.ÂWith hopes for early integration dashed, public confidence in the government's ability to resolve the many pressing economic problems-especially an unemployment rate of 22% and the need to face further painful cuts in social welfare spending-also lessened. Revenues expected from the privatization of major energy state enterprises did not materialize, and the foreign investment needed to boost job creation remained weak. The important tourist trade proved resilient, however, increasing 4% and helping the government to register a modest 4% growth in gross domestic product.ÂThe truncated SDP-led coalition still enjoyed a comfortable parliamentary majority after the split with the HSLS. Growing public dissatisfaction with its performance at home and abroad, however, coupled with the reemergence of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), the party that previously had governed the country, as a viable centre-right alternative to the centre-left coalition, raised speculation about early elections. Moderate nationalist Ivo Sanader, a former deputy foreign minister, was elected president of the HDZ on April 22, and the expulsion of the HDZ's hard-line wing a few months later gave new shape and vitality to the Croatian political scene. The prospect of an HDZ-led centre-right coalition with participation by the HSLS and other like-minded smaller parties invigorated the country's political scene.ÂCroatian politicians were of a single mind on one issue, however. On September 27 Parliament unanimously backed the government's legal challenge to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, which had indicted retired general Janko Bobetko, a wartime commander and Croatian hero, as a war criminal. This rare broad-based political consensus reflected frustration with recent indictments by the tribunal in The Hague that seemed implicitly to revise and even criminalize Croatia's homeland war for independence.ÂCroatia's skiing sensation Janica Kostelic became a national icon in February after winning a record four medals at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. (See BIOGRAPHIES.) On March 11 Franjo Cardinal Kuharic, one of Croatia's most influential post-World War II religious leaders, died. (See OBITUARIES.) Kuharic was a symbol of the nation's resistance to communism and an advocate of ethnic and political tolerance. letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Fri, 02 May 2003 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5792/1/E-CROATIAN-WOMENS-ON-LINE-LEXICON.html ÂWomen from CroatiaThe purpose of this on-line lexicon is:Â" to introduce Internet surfers with the women from Croatia who have been active in some form of artistic expression or theory, and who have been achieving results in various fields of human activity;Â" to gather as many information as possible about women from the past and the present of Croatia and be an informative resource;Â" to prove that women's creativity and achievement has a continuity;Â" to give a recognition to women's work and efforts that history has been forgetting to do.Âwww.crowmagazine.com/lexicon.htmÂÂÂThe Lexicon is arranged alphabetically:ÂA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S Š T U V Z ŽÂ* Names which have bracketed sign "hr." are available only in Croatian until we find time to translate them. Thanks for your understanding.Lexicon will be regularly updated with new names and information.ÂWe have just started !ÂWe invite youÂto send us any information about Croatian women you have come upon or found on the Internet.Âcrowomen@mailcity.com letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Mon, 23 Dec 2002 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5793/1/E-The-Croatian-Legal-system---extensive-DATA.html TheCroatian Legal SystemBy DunjaKuecking and Milivoje Žugić Dunja Kuecking graduated Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Zagreb in 1983. Since 1996, she has been the head of the Center for legal research and documentation, Intellectio Iuris, whose job is to analyze, systematize, and make available on the Internet a catalogue of court practices and legal articles in Croatia. Intellectio Iuris is a legal database of Croatia's laws, court decisions, articles and interpretations, and selected documents in English. Milivoje Žugić graduated Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb in 1969. He worked as a judge until 1982, when he entered a private law practice. He lives and works in Zagreb, and specializes in land registry law. He is the author of a paper about the legal position of clients of the Bank of Ljubljana (Ljubljanska Banka) after the dissolution of former Yugoslavia. Published December 2, 2002 Independence How did the Republic of Croatia come into being and what is its legal basis? Croatia was established with the dissolution of SFRY and it is one of its legal successors. The documents that supports its existence as an independent state is the Constitutional Decree of Sovereignty and Independence of Republic of Croatia, published on June 25, 1991. Therein, the Republic of Croatia proclaims its sovereignty and independence from the former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia. The second document that justifies Croatia's independence is the decision the Parliament made on October 8, 1991 to seek international acceptance as an independent state. In Croatia's national law, this date is considered to be the first day of the beginning for Croatia as an independent state although Croatia was not officially recognized as a state until January 15, 1992. This date January 15, 1992 could be considered its international birthday. A hierarchy of legal norms characterizes the legal system in Croatia. They are arranged in four levels, and the norms lower in rank have to be congruent with those of higher levels. The highest norm is the Constitution - the fundamental law. The constitution was originally made on December 22, 1990. It went through some important changes in 1997, 2000 and 2001. It is based on two important principles: division of power in the government and the rule of law. Ranking in importance after the constitution are international contracts, laws and sub-statutory acts. The Structure of the Croatian Government The type of rule in Croatia is a parliamentary democracy. Croatia possesses a multi-party system based on the principle of three branches of government. I. Legislative II. Executive III. Judicial Each one of these branches of government has the highest authority in its sphere of influence. The legislative branch has the highest authority in making laws, executive in executing those laws, and judicial in judging its subjects. The Constitutional court could be sui generi considered a fourth portion of the government. The chiefs of local executive bodies are nominated and are exempted from their posts by the President. For additional information, please also see the final section if this guide, Online Resources in Croatia. I. The Legislative Branch The highest organ of the judicial branch is the Parliament of the Republic of Croatia (Sabor Republike Hrvatske). The Parliament has only one house, and representatives (zastupnici) to the Parliament are elected on direct parliamentary elections, which are held every four years. Voters are all men and women over the age of 18. Election Act regulates the elections in detail. The Parliament has 120 representatives and authority to enact laws in any session where majority of representatives are present. There are two kinds of laws: Ordinary ones - The parliament is entitled to declare those in any session where more than 1/2 of the present representatives votes for their passing. Essential ones (the Constitution calls them "organic" ones) - which are concerned with basic rights and freedoms of ethnic and national communities. The Parliament is entitled to declare those if the "qualified majority"(2/3 of present representatives) votes for their passing. II. The Executive Branch Considering the fact that Croatia is a parliamentary democracy, the executive power is divided between the President (Pretsjednik Republike Hrvatske) and the Cabinet (Vlada Republike Hrvatske). The President is elected in direct presidential elections for a period of five years, and can serve two terms. The President represents the state in the country and abroad, and his powers are essentially those of state protocol. He has the authority to dissolve the Parliament and he proposes a candidate for a mandate of Prime Minister. The highest executive power in Croatia holds the Cabinet. According to protocol, the President appoints the Prime Minister of the Cabinet who is usually a president of the party that has most votes in the Parliament. The Prime Minister is confirmed by the Parliament, and he has the power to appoint the members of his Cabinet. The Cabinet of Republic of Croatia is made up of the Prime Minister and 19 ministries. List of ministries (names, addresses, telephones, faxes, E-mails and URLs) 1. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (www.mvp.hr) Trg Nikole Šubića Zrinjskog 7 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 456 9964 Fax: +385 1 455 1795 E-mail: MVP@mvp.hr 2. Ministry of the Interior (www.mup.hr) Savska 39 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 612 2111 3. Ministry of Defense (www.morh.hr) Trg Petra Krešimira 1 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 456 7111 4. Ministry of Science and Technology (www.mzt.hr) Strossmayerov trg 4 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 459 4444 Fax: +385 1 459 4469 E-mail: ured@znanost.hr 5. Ministry of Finance (www.mfin.hr) Katančićeva 5 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 459 1333 Fax: +385 1 492 2586 6. Ministry of Education and Sport (www.prosvjeta.hinet.hr) Trg hrvatskih velikana 6 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 456 9000 Fax: +385 1 456 9087 E-mail: ured@mips.hr 7. Ministry of Economy (www.mingo.hr) Ulica grada Vukovara 78 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 610 6111 Fax: +385 1 610 9111 8. Ministry of Culture (www.min-kulture.hr) Trg hrvatskih velikana 6 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 456 9000 Fax: +385 1 461 0489 E-mail: kabinet@min-kulture.hr 9. Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (www.mrss.hr) Prisavlje 14 10 000 Zagreb Phone:+385 1 616 9111 Fax: +385 1 484 8959 E-mail: info@mrss.hr 10. Ministry of Environmental Protection and Physical Planing (www.mzopu.hr) Republike Austrije 20 10 000 Zagreb Phone:+385 1 378 2444 Fax: +385 1 378 2555 E-mail: kabinet.ministra@zg.tel.hr 11. Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transportation and Communications (www.pomorstvo.hr) Prisavlje 14 10 000 Zagreb Phone:+385 1 616 9070 12. Ministry of Justice, Administration and Local Self-government (www.vlada.hr/min-pravo.html) Ulica Republike Austrije 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 371 0666 Fax: +385 1 371 0602 E-mail: ministar@pravosudje.hr 13. Ministry of Tourism (www.mint.hr) Ulica grada Vukovara 78 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 610 6111 Fax: +385 1 610 9300 E-mail: ministarstvo-turizma@zg.tel.hr 14. Ministry of Health (www.tel.hr/mzr) Ksaver 200 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 460 7555 Fax: +385 1 467 7076 15. Ministry of Public Works Reconstruction and Construction (www.mjr.hr) Vladimira Nazora 61 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 378 4500 Fax: +385 1 378 4518 16. Ministry for European Integration (www.mei.hr) Ulica grada Vukovara 62 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 456 9335 Fax: +385 1 456 9336 E-mail: info@mei.hr 17. Ministry of Crafts, Small and Medium Enterprises (www.momsp.h) Ksaver 200 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 469 8300 Fax: +385 1 469 8308 E-mail: momsp@momsp.hr 18. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (www.mps.hr) Ulica grada Vukovara 78 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 610 6111 Fax: +385 1 610 9201 E-mail: glasnogovornik@mps.hr 19. Ministry of Homeland War Veterans (www.mhbdr.hr) Park Stara Trešnjevka 4 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 365 7800 Fax: +385 1 365 7852 E-mail: mhbdr@mhbdr.tel.hr Government Offices Office of the Government of the Republic of Croatia for National Minorities Mesnička 23 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 456 9358 Fax: +385 1 456 9324 General Administration Office of the Croatian Government and Parliament - Sabor Trg Sv. Marka 3 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 4569-569 Fax: +385 1 6303 004 Public and Media Relations Office of the Government of the Republic of Croatia Trg Sv. Marka 2 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 456 9239 Fax: +385 1 630 3022, 630 3011 The Government of the Republic of Croatia Office for the Succession Settlement of the Former SFRY Mesnička 23 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 456 9276 Fax: +385 1 456 9383 E-mail : vrh-ured-za-sukcesiju@zg-tel-hr The Government of the Republic of Croatia Office for Cooperation with the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunals Mesnička 23 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 630 3044 Fax: +385 1 630 3862 The Government of the Republic of Croatia Office for Cooperation with International Institutions in the Republic of Croatia Mesnička 23, 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 456 9262 Fax: +385 1 455 2002 Legislation Office of the Government of the Republic of Croatia Trg Sv. Marka 2 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 456 9244, 456 9265 Fax: +385 1 456 9386 Office of the Government of the Republic of Croatia for Cooperation with NGOs (http://www.uzuvrh.hr) Ulica grada Vukovara 78 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 610 6500 Fax: +385 1 610 9972 E-mail: ured.za.udruge@zg.tel.hr Office of the Government's Agent at the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg Republike Austrije 14 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 371 0670, 371 0671 Fax: +385 1 371 0672 E-mail: llukina@pravosudje.hr Office of the Government of the Republic of Croatia for Development of Internet Infrastructure Mesnička 23 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 456 9222, Fax: +385 1 630 3013, Office of the Government of the Republic of Croatia for Development Strategy of the Republic of Croatia (http://www.hrvatska21.hr) Mesnička 23 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 630 3036, 456 9222 Fax: +385 1 630 3039 E-mail: strateg@vlada.hr Office of the Government of the Republic of Croatia for Confined and Missing Persons Prisavlje 14 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 616 9179, 619 6486 Fax: +385 1 619 5951 E-mail: du.zat.nes@zg.tel.hr State Property Office of the Government of the Republic of Croatia Ilica 44/II, Zagreb 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 488 1850, Fax: +385 1 488 1880 E-mail: imovinarh@vlada.hr Office of the Government of the Republic of Croatia for Internal Supervision Trg Sv. Marka 2 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 456 9222 Fax: +385 1 630 3013, 630 3023 Office of the Government of the Republic of Croatia for Human Rights Trg Maršala Tita 8/1 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 487 7660 Fax: +385 1 481 3430 E-mail: ured@ljudskaprava-vladarh.hr Office of the Government of the Republic of Croatia for Protocol Trg Sv. Marka 2 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 456 9222, Fax: +385 1 630 3013, 630 3023 Office of the Government of the Republic of Croatia for Social Partnership Mesnička 23 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 456 9222, Fax: +385 1 630 3013, 630 3023 Government Agencies Agency for Transactions and Mediation in Immovable Properties Savska 41/VI 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 617 7046 Fax: +385 1 617 7045 Agency for the Protection of Market Competition Savska cesta 41/VI p.p. 32 10144 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 617 6449 Fax: +385 1 617 6450 State Agency for Deposit Insurance and Bank Rehabilitation Jurišićeva 1 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 481 3222 Fax: +385 1 481 9107 E-mail: dragbank@zg.tel.hr Croatian Information and Documentation Referral Agency (http://www.hidra.hr) Trg Maršala Tita 3 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 485 5827 Fax: +385 1 485 5655 E-mail: ured@hidra.hr Croatian Guarantee Agency (http://www.hga.hr) Ilica 49 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 484 6622 Fax: +385 1 484 6612 E-mail: hga@hga.hr Agency for the Supervision of Retirement Insurance Companies and Funds Gajeva 5 10000 Zagreb Phone: + 385 1 492 3800, 492 3824, 492 3806 Fax: + 385 1 492 3829 Croatian Securities Exchange Commission of the Government of the Republic of Croatia (http://www.crosec.hr) Bogovićeva 1a 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 481 0311, 481 1407 Fax: +385 1 481 1507 E-mail: crosec@zg.tel.hr State Administration Organization State Weather Bureau of the Republic of Croatia (http://www.tel.hr/dhmz) Grič 3 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 456 5666, 456 5717, 456 5693 Fax: +385 1 485 1901 E-mail: dhmz@cirus.dhz.hr State Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Croatia (http://www.dziv.hr) Ulica grada Vukovara 78 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 610 6111, 610 6100, 610 6101 Fax: +385 1 611 2017 E-mail: ipo.croatia@patent.tel.hr Central Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia (http://www.dzs.hr) Ilica 3 p.p. 671 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 480 6111, 481 2745, 481 2746 Fax: +385 1 481 7666, 481 2740 E-mail: ured@agram.dzs.hr State Institute for the Protection of the Family, Maternity, and Youth of the Republic of Croatia Savska cesta 41/III 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 617 6858, 617 7834 Fax: +385 1 617 6857 State Bureau of Standards and Metrology of the Republic of Croatia (http://www.dznm.hr) Ulica grada Vukovara 78 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 610 6111, 610 6320, 610 6321, 610 6322, 610 6323, 610 6324, 610 6325 Fax: +385 1 610 9321, 610 9322, 610 9323, 610 9324, 610 9335, 610 6324 E-mail: pisarnica@dznm.hr State Directorate for Water Management of the Republic of Croatia Ulica grada Vukovara 220 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 630 7333 Fax: +385 1 615 1388, 615 1821 E-mail: du.vode@zg.hinet.hr State Geodetic Directorate of the Republic of Croatia (http://www.dgu.tel.hr/dgu) Gruška 20 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 365 7394, 615 7390 Fax: +385 1 615 7389 State Inspector's Office of the Republic of Croatia (http://www.dirh.hr) Ulica grada Vukovara 78 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 610 6111, 610 6115 Fax: +385 1 610 9115 State Audit Office of the Republic of Croatia (http://www.revizija.hr) Tkalčićeva 19 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 481 3292, 481 3293 Fax: +385 1 481 3304 E-mail: revizija@revizija.hr Croatian Pension Insurance Institute Mihanovićeva 3 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 459 5500 Fax: +385 1 457 7105, 457 7168 Croatian Employment Institute (http://www.hzz.hr) Radnička cesta 1 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 611 4600 Fax: +385 1 611 4904 E-mail: hzz@hzz.hr Croatian Institute for Health Insurance (http://www.hzzo-net.hr) Margaretska 3 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 487 2666 Fax: +385 1 481 2594, 481 2606 Croatian Privatization Fund (http://www.hfp.hr) Ivana Lučića 6 10000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 456 9111, 634 6111 Fax: +385 1 459 6294, 456 9140 E-mail: hfp@hfp.hr Croatian Hydrographic Institute (http://www.dhi.tel.hr) Zrinsko-Frankopanska 161 21000 Split Phone: +385 21 361840, 344433 Fax: +385 21 347242, 347208 E-mail: dhi-office@dhi.tel.hr Croatian Demining Center (http://www.hcr.hr) Ivana Meštrovića 30 44000 Sisak Phone: +385 44 540088, 547960, 547970 Fax: +385 44 547950 The National Bank of Croatia (www.hnb.hr) The National bank of Croatia is the highest organ of monetary power in Croatia. The head of the National Bank of Croatia is a Governor. Hrvatska Narodna Banka Trg hrvatskih valikana 3 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 456 4555 Fax: +385 1 461 0551Constitution (supreme law of the country) Independent Organizations Hrvatska odvjetnička komora (www.odvj-komora.hr) The Croatian Bar Association was organized in 1929, based on an Act on Barristers of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia along with seven other bar associations. Today, the Bar has 2210 members and 650 candidates. The candidates are applicants to the Bar that graduated law school but do not possess sufficient knowledge to practice law. In order to become full fledged members, candidates have to complete three years of apprenticeship as a paralegal in a solicitor's office, four years of practice working in courts system, or five years of practice as a company lawyer and pass a bar examination. The Bar has its representation in all mayor cities in Croatia. The Croatian Bar Association is a self-governed body that closely monitors the work of all solicitors in Croatia and imposes and enforces disciplinary actions against its members if a need for it arises. Its goal is to raise the expertise level of practicing lawyers and candidates. Finally, the Bar promotes practice of law as an independent occupation and it protects the rights of all of its members. Croatian Bar Association is a member of Union Internationale Des Avocats. Koturaška 53/2 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 617 1270 Fax: +385 1 617 0686 E-mail: hr.odvjetnicka-komora@zg.tel.hr Croatian Chamber of Notaries (http://www.hjk.hr/) Croatian chamber of notaries is an association of Croatian public notaries. Its seat is in Zagreb, and its function is, with the help of Ministry of Justice, to supervise the work of all public notaries. Public notaries are persons of public trust and their work consists in assembling and publishing public documents concerning all legal transactions, statements and facts that are basis for establishing rights. It witnesses the signatures and certifies the validity of personal identification papers. They act as a safe depository for documents, money or objects etc. Public notaries are independent proprietors and notary is their sole occupation. Račkog 10 Phone: +385 1 455 6566 Fax: +385 1 455 1544 E-mail: hjbk@globalnet.hr III. Judicial branch Judicial power in general is regulated trough Law of the Courts and is inspired by the idea of independent courts. All judges are appointed for life by State Judiciary Council as an independent state institution formed of Parliament members, judicial authorities, well respected public persons and members of Croatian Bar Association. Minister of Justice names the presidents of the courts from among the appointed judges and the president of the Supreme Court of Croatia is chosen by the Parliament based on the proposition from the Cabinet. Types of courts: 1. Courts of General Jurisdiction 2. Commercial Courts 3. Police Courts 4. Administrative Court Courts of General Jurisdiction Courts of General Jurisdiction are the cornerstones of judicial practice in Croatia. These courts judge in all disputes except in those where law explicitly determines jurisdiction of another court. These courts are organized hierarchically in three instances and are divided into regions. A) Municipal Courts Municipal Courts are courts with first instance jurisdiction in both civil and penal cases. In penal litigation the courts judge in all cases where the penalty goes up to 10 years. In civil litigation these courts judge as first instance courts in all judicial, extra-judicial and execution procedures, especially in litigation against unlawful actions, and lawsuits for correction of information. Municipal courts hold land registers that are the only legally valid registry service of real rights in Croatia. B) County Courts County courts are almost exclusively second instance courts. On occasion these courts are used as first instance courts: in penal litigation if the punishment by law surpasses 10 years or by special regulations (the court decides in the compensation amount for expropriated real estate, it decides on a right to belong to an association etc.). It is important to recognize that a right to appeal is a constitutional right of every citizen and a right of every legal entity (for instance corporation) according to the practice of the Constitutional court. The practice states that every legal entity can appeal against any and all acts of either executive or judicial power which determine the entities legal rights and obligations. As all court decisions are acts of judicial branch of government the structure allows for an appeal against any decision made by the municipal courts. In that case district court acts as a court of appeal. C) Supreme Court (www.vsrh.hr) Supreme Court is a court of full jurisdiction with respect to court decisions and it can void them, confirm them or revise them (unlike in France or Italy). Supreme court is the highest court in Croatia and as the last instance it decides on extraordinary legal remedies against valid court decisions of the courts of general jurisdiction (dismissed appeal), and all other courts in Croatia. Supreme Court is also an appellate court in all cases where municipal court was the first instance. As we mentioned before the sources of law in Croatia are the Constitution, international contracts, laws and sub-statutory acts and the courts judge accordingly based on all four. Now, if a court is of an opinion that one of the laws in practice is unconstitutional it is it's duty to inform the Supreme Court of that fact and stop trying all cases that fall under that particular law. The Supreme Court can then start the process of constitutional challenge - constitutional revue of the law (ocjena ustavnosti). If the Supreme Court does not do so in a prearranged time period the court that started the motion with the Supreme Court to file for the constitutional challenge should continue trying those cases in accordance with that law. The situation is quite different with sub-statutory acts. If a court deems a sub-statutory act unconstitutional it can refuse to apply it. Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia Trg Nikole Šubića Zrinjskog 3 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 486 2239 Fax: +385 1 486 2254 E-mail: vsrh@vsrh.hr Commercial courts All commercial courts are hierarchical and are organized in two instances. First instance courts try in cases between commercial subjects in bankruptcy proceedings, liquidation procedures, maritime litigation, litigation over patent and intellectual property rights, execution procedures, commercial violations and any other violations committed by enterprises. They have a broad jurisdiction in non-litigation procedures in accordance with the commercial laws of the country. For instance: it can call for a general meeting of shareholders, by request of minor shareholders it can impeach a bankruptcy liquidator of the commercial enterprise etc. The court manages the registry of all commercial enterprises in Croatia. Appeals against judgments of first instance commercial courts are solved at High commercial court level (this is a full jurisdiction court) in its seat in Zagreb. The legal remedies against the decisions of High commercial court are decided upon by the Supreme Court of Croatia. High commercial court Berislavićeva 11 10 000 Zagreb, Phone: + 385 1 489 6888 Police Courts These courts pass judgments on physical persons for misdemeanor offices. They are organized in two instances: a) First instance police court organized on municipal level. b) High Police Court in Zagreb - as an appellate court. Jurisdiction according to special legal remedies for appeals to the decisions of High Police Court is possible at the Supreme Court of Croatia. High Police Court Dukljanova 3 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 461 1333 Administrative court This court has its seat in Zagreb and is really interesting. The process before this court commences by filing an action to set aside second instance decision of the executive body or first instance decisions against which appeal is not allowed by regulation. (This supports the principle of having a constitutional right to an appeal although it is not really an appeal but an entirely new lawsuit) This court passes judgments solely by drawing information directly from the file and without directly determining the facts of the cases. It is not a full jurisdiction court and European court for human rights does not recognize its judicial powers. Administrative Court of the Republic of Croatia Trg Nikole Šubića Zrinskog 3 10 000 Zagreb, Phone: +385 1 481 0022 All court processes are thoroughly regulated by procedural rules under which legal remedies have an important role. Legal remedies are well-developed means that are available to civil personas in all different levels of judicial decision making process. Arbitration is a viable option in every instance of the courts. Constitutional Court of Croatia (http://www.usud.hr) This is not really a court, although it is called that way, and it does have some judicial authority. It is definitely not a court with full jurisdiction. It was conceptualized as a forth branch of government, and its authority is provided for by the Constitution. It is called the fourth portion of the government because it has some power over all three branches of government. The details of its day to day operation are set in a special constitutional act - Constitutional Court Act. The judges to the constitutional court are elected to run a term of eight years and there are provisions for their reelection. The purpose of this court is to keep the purity of the legal system. Its primary job is to solve constitutional challenges of laws and sub-statutory acts by perform their constitutional revues (ocjena zakonitosti, ocjena ustavnosti). The court has an authority to abolish laws if it rules that the particular law is unconstitutional (it rarely does so and most of the time the legislative power complies with its requests to modify the existing laws and bring them in accordance with the Constitution). There are two types of entities that can initiate the procedure before the Constitutional court: Obligatory - their initiative obliges the constitutional court to initiate the procedure of challenging constitutionality of the law or lawfulness of a sub-statutory act (Supreme Court, the Cabinet etc.) Facultative - where the Constitutional Court preliminary decide whether it will initiate the procedure of constitutional revue of laws and lawfulness of a sub-statutory act. This enables ordinary citizens to move forward with the proposition. In the latter case the constitutional court is not under obligation to start a process, but it has an obligation to rule on each proposition and state will it or will it not start the procedure and why. Judgments of regular courts are called verdicts and writs, while judgments of the constitutional court are called decisions and writs. Decisions of the Constitutional Court are judgment in meritum and writs are judgments non meritum (these are the matters of process). All of the decisions of the constitutional court must be published in Narodne Novine - the official gazette of Republic of Croatia. Writs are published only if the constitutional court decides to publish them. It is important to recognize that all of the decisions of the constitutional court are considered a president (case law) because according to the constitution all courts and other governmental bodies must adhere to opinions and interpretations of the constitution and laws taken by constitutional court. Beside this fundamental jurisdiction this court helps in execution and control over the elections to the Parliament and solves any questions concerning the conflict of jurisdiction of the legislative, executive and judicial powers. The court decides on appeals against the decisions of State Judiciary Council to impeach judges due to disciplinary violations. Any breaches of human rights guaranteed by the constitution also fall under its jurisdiction. Only in these matters this court can interfere in particular judicial acts (litigation), and this is the sole reason it was named a court although it stands completely outside the hierarchy of the courts. If rights and freedoms of any individual citizen (or a legal entity) are hurt trough any act of judicial or executive power, they have a right to protection, with respect to procedural assumptions (lawsuit was filed in allotted time period - 30 days, and all other legal remedies have been exhausted), based on a constitutional complaint (ustavna tužba) - specific legal action before the constitutional court. If it pertains to a judicial act the constitutional court appears to be the court of the fourth instance (an instance above the Supreme Court) but with exclusive jurisdiction to confirm or deny the decisions validity. This is in accordance with European tradition and completely opposed with the practice in the United States of America. Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia Trg Sv. Marka 4 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 481 1008 Fax: +385 1 455 1055 E-mail: Ksenija_Podgornik@usud.hr Human Rights in Croatia Human rights and basic civic freedoms in Croatia are guaranteed by chapters two and three that regulate the basic rights and freedoms of every citizen, non-citizen and a legal entity (as we mentioned before this is regulated trough the practice of the Constitutional Court of Croatia). Economic, social and cultural rights of individuals are also provided for in other parts of the Constitution. Croatia is a co-signer of many international conventions and contracts (be that it signed them itself or accepted them as a legal successor of SFRY - Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia) concerning the human rights and freedoms, in particular: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International covenant of Civil and Political Rights, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Final Act of Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, Charter of Paris for a New Europe and what is most important, the European Convention of Basic Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. This is important because it shows that Croatia has accepted the concept of international protection of human rights and liberties, and therefore accepted the jurisdiction of the European Court for Human Rights in the field of human rights and liberties. So, this court could be on occasion a fifth instance court. At the moment there are 188 cases before this court initiated by Croatian nationals, and the court has ruled on seven of them already. Many organizations for the protection of human rights and liberties act in the territory of Croatia: OESS Central Office Florijana Andrašeca 14 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 369 620 Fax: +385 1 369 621 UNHCR Kupska 2 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 612 9555 Fax: +385 1 612 9589 THE OFFICE OF HIGH COUNCILOR OF THE UN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS Ilica 207 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 377 6704 Fax: +385 1 378 0174 INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR REFUGEES - IOM Ilica 10/X 10 000 Zagreb, Phone: +385 1 434 609 Fax: +385 1 481 7417 CROATIAN HELSINKI COMMITTEE Smičiklasova 23/II Phone: +385 1 455 2020 Fax: +385 1 455 2524 10 000 Zagreb, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CROATIA Vlaška 71 10 000 Zagreb, Phone: +385 1 461 6351 OPEN EYES Lazinska 58 10 000 Zagreb, Phone: +385 1 381 6984 Legal Education in Croatia In Croatia there are four schools of law (faculties of law). The law is an undergraduate study lasting four years. LAW FACULTY OF UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB (www.pravo.hr) It was established in 1776. Annually it enrolls 420 students and it offers post graduate studies in: commercial law, civil law sciences, international public law, administrative law, punitive procedural law, fiscal systems and fiscal politics European law. The library contains around 208,400 tomes (168,480 books and 39,960 magazines). The Faculty publishes its own magazine - Zbornik pravnog fakulteta Zagreb since 1948. Trg Maršala Tita 14 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 45 64 332 Fax: +385 1 45 64 030 LAW FACULTY OF UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA (http://law.pravri.hr/en/) It was established in 1973, and annually it enrolls 260 students. It offers post graduate studies in: law of European integration and international commerce law. The library contains around 25,600 titles (19,240 books and 6,360 periodicals). The Faculty publishes its own magazine - Zbornik pravnog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Rijeci. Hahlić 6 51000 Rijeka Phone: +385 51 675 121 Fax: +385 51 675 113 E-mail: dekanat@pravri.hr LAW FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT (www.pravst.hr) It was established in 1961. It annually enrolls 270 students and it offers post graduate studies in: maritime law and law of the sea. The library contains around 95,000 books and magazines. The Faculty publishes its own magazine - Zbornik pravnog fakulteta u Splitu since 1963. Domovinskog rata 8 21 000 Split Phone: +385 21 393 500 Fax: +385 21 393 597 E-mail: dekanat@pravst.hr LAW FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK (www.zakon.pravos.hr) It was established in 1975. It annually enrolls 200 students and it offers post graduate studies in: governing and development of local and regional self-governing. The library contains around 27,000 titles of which 470 are tomes of domestic and foreign periodicals. The Faculty publishes its own magazine - Pravni vjesnik since 1985. Stjepana Radića 13 31 000 Osijek Phone: +385 31 224 500 Fax: +385 31 224 540 E-mail: Ljerka.Dumancic@zakon.pravos.hr The magazines these faculties publish often publish articles in foreign languages (English, French, German and Italian) and if the articles are published in Croatian, a summary is provided in one of the afore mentioned foreign languages. All of the faculties also publish textbooks. PUBLISHERS IN CROATIA There are several publishing houses in Croatia that specialize in publishing legal literature: INFORMATOR (www.informator.hr) Zelinska 3 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 611 1500 Fax: +385 1 611 1664 E-mail: list_informator@informator.hr INFORMATOR NOVI (www.novi-informator.net) Kneza Mislava 7/1 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 455 5454 Fax: +385 1 461 2553 E-mail: list@novi-informator.net ORGANIZATOR Kralja Zvonimira 26 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 461 1900 Fax: +385 1 461 1901 E-mail: organizator@zg.tel.hr INŽENJERSKI BIRO (www.ingbiro.hr) Heinzelova 4a 10 000 Zagreb, Phone: +385 1 460 0888 Fax: +385 1 465 0366 E-mail: ingbiro@ingbiro.hr RRiF plus (www.rrif.hr) Vlaška 68 10 000 Zagreb, Phone: +385 1 469 9777 Fax: +385 1 469 9766 E-mail: rrif@rrif.hr NARODNE NOVINE (www.nn.h) Ratkajev prilaz 4 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 455 1666 Fax: +385 1 650 2749 POLICIJSKA AKADEMIJA Svetošimunska cesta 10 000 Zagreb, Phone: +385 1 239 1303 Fax: +385 1 239 1419 LEGAL MAGAZINES IN CROATIA This is the list of law magazines that are published in Croatia. Narodne Novine - The official gazette of Republic of Croatia (www.nn.hr) Ratkajev prolaz 4 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 456 9244 Fax: +385 1 461 1823 E-mail: webmaster@nn.hr Published once a week + according to need Hrvatska pravna revija (www.ingbiro.hr) Heinzelova 4a 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 460 0888 Fax: +385 1 465 0366 RRIF plus (www.rrifplus.h) Vlaška 68 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 469 9777 Fax: +385 1 469 9766 E-mail: rrif@rrif.hr Published 12 times a year. Informator, novi (www.novi-informator.net) Kneza Mislava 7/1 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 455 5454 Fax: +385 1 461 2553 It comes out Wednesdays and Saturdays. Informator (www.informator.hr) Zelinska 3 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 611 1500 Fax: +385 1 611 1664 E-mail: informator@informator.hr Published 52 times a year (once a week) Porezni vjesnik (www.ijf.hr) Katančićeva 5 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 492 2592 Fax: +385 1 481 9365 E-mail: ured@ijf.hr Published 10 times a year. Osiguranje (www.crosig.hr) Savska cesta 41 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 617 6622 Fax: +385 1 617 6683 E-mail: casopis.osiguranje@gendir.crosig.hr Published 10 times a year. Pravo u gospodarstvu Križanićeva 16/4 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 461 4890 Fax: +385 1 461 4890 Published 6 times a year. Pravo i porezi - časopis za pravnu i ekonomsku teoriju i praksu (www.rrif.hr) Vlaška 68 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 469 9777 Fax: +385 1 469 9766 E-mail: rrif@rrif.hr Published 12 times a year. Carinski vjesnik (www.ijf.hr) Katančićeva 5 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 492 2592 Fax: +385 1 481 9356 E-mail: ured@ijf.hr Published 10 times a year. Odvjetnik (www.odvj-komora.hr) Koturaška 53/II 10 000 Zagreb Phone: +385 1 617 1270 Fax: +385 1 617 0686 E-mail: casopis-odvjetnik@odvj-komora.tel.hr Published 10 times a year.  ONLINE RESOURCES IN CROATIA The number of online law resources in Croatia is not overwhelming but it keeps increasing. Narodne Novine (http://www.nn.hr/) - The primary source of online laws is Narodne Novine (http://www.nn.hr/) which is Croatia's official gazette. The database is provides documents in HTML format and freely accessible to all. The use of their search engine on the other hand requires a subscription. Korektor (http://www.korekt.hr/) - Korektor is a private company that provides laws trough the email. For a fee they will email you the text of the law. Intellectio Iuris (http://www.pravnadatoteka.hr/eng/index.as) - The Center for Law research and documentation, Intellectio Iuris provides the largest database on the territory of Croatia bearing the same name Intellectio Iuris. The database is on the Internet since March 15, 2002 and the database is updated twice a month. This is an ever-growing commercial database covering all branches of law. So we could say that this is a group of databases. The information it provides is taken directly from the official sources and is reflected faithfully and objectively. The database contains all of the relevant Croatian legal publications and is not partial to any one publisher. Center's library contains all of the literature, and all of the literature is indexed in the database. At the moment, Intellectio Iuris is the only online database in Croatia that covers all types of law. The database contains two categories of entries. The first category of entries is judicial decisions. The second category is made up of monographic scientific papers. At this moment there are over 25,000 entries. 7,500 of these are indexes of monographic works while 16,500 entries cover court practices. The rest contains opinions of different Ministries, law book revues etc. The database contains it's own search engine using Boolean logic and allowing search in seven fields: "Naslov"-title, "Izvor"-source, "God/br"-year/no., "Autor"-author, "Ključne riječi"-keywords, "Grana prava"-branch of law and "Napomena"-notes. These fields could be searched individually or simultaneously. The database contains a built in thesaurus allowing searches in Croatian, Serbian and Slovenian. There are projects in the works that will enable the searches in Macedonian and English language. Croatia, and all the republics of the former Yugoslavia, have posted their laws on the Internet and made them available free of charge. This is why the Center found the entry of laws in the database unnecessary. It is important to mention that every judicial decision and every scientific article points out specifically, in the field "Napomena" (notes), to which regulation or law it refers. In the field "Naslov" (title) judicial decision and scientific articles even list which article of law they refer to. Using key terms (keywords), which are abundant for each of the entries, the user can immediately unite both categories of entries for a full and complete information on the subject. In the scientific works themselves the practice of the courts is often quoted. The database is organized in the manner that if an article quotes any judgments of the courts the user can bring it up by entering title of the article in the search field "Napomena" (notes). This is an authentic and highly valuable feature of the database. This is because the judicial decisions offer objective view of the content of an article, as opposed to excerpts, which may be subjective. In addition this allows for access to the judicial decisions that are not commonly available in official publications of the courts and are only known to the authors of the scientific papers. Often these authors are judges of the highest courts and have passed some of these verdicts themselves. Through analysis and systematization of Croatian judicial practice incongruities were discovered. Wherever this was spotted it was carefully entered "suprotna odluka" (opposing decision) in the search field "Napomena" (notes) of each of the entries. As all of the entries are unified by the keyword criteria by entering the corresponding keywords both of the decisions will turn out in the search. Another authentic and highly valuable feature of the database is that it contains opinions of law experts on certain judicial decisions. If an expert, in his discussion of a legal problem, confirms the validity of a particular decision it was mark with an exclamation mark "!" in the field entitled "Napomena" (notes). If the expert questions the validity of a decision in an article he is writing it was mark it in the field entitled "Napomena" (notes) by entering the word "upitno" (questionable). Besides the commercial portion of the database the web-site has a non-commercial pages User collaboration (http://www.pravnadatoteka.hr/eng/suradnja.asp) - where authors publish their articles and make them available for non-commercial research and educational purposes. Community oriented, Hot topics (http://www.pravnadatoteka.hr/eng/aktualno.asp) are another portion of the site where the Center for legal research and documentation provides law materials about the current issues of state importance discussed in the media. These materials include expert articles of law professors and academics, different international conventions, laws or court decisions. The materials are in PDF and HTML formats. There is an English version of the web-site, which enables foreign users basic navigation through the Site. All of the articles published have English summaries. The final goal is to increase the security of legal practice in Croatia, to help Croatian judicial practice and legislation in achieving congruency with European and worldwide standards. Considering that the law systems of all former Yugoslav republics are almost identical, the goal of this database is to provide the information from all of the former republics. The common history of these countries dictates this, and so does the inevitable cooperation between the countries in the future. Supreme Court of Croatia (http://www.vsrh.hr/EasyWeb.asp?pcpid=11) - Croatia is preparing to join the European Union and as a part of these preparations The Supreme Court of Croatia (http://www.vsrh.hr/EasyWeb.asp?pcpid=11) developed a project web-site (http://www.vsrh.hr/EasyWeb.asp?pcpid=287) where it only publishes it's own practice. The web site offers a full text search of court decision, in HTML format, but only in Croatian. On the same site you can find some expert papers written by the judges of the Supreme Court. HIDRA - EUROVOC (http://www.hidra.hr/eurovoc/EUV/EVP.htm) - As a part of the European integration program HIDRA (Government Information Agency) started translating the European thesaurus EUROVOC (http://www.hidra.hr/eurovoc/EUV/EVP.htm). Conclusion The judiciary system in Croatia is undergoing some radical changes. The law reform will enable some modern improvements in legal practice, and one of these reforms will allow full access to the Internet to all of the of judiciary branch and law faculties. With the advent of these reforms we can expect that the number of web-sites and databases providing legal information in vernacular and foreign languages will greatly increase. Source: http://www.llrx.com/features/croatia.htm letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Tue, 10 Dec 2002 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5794/1/EH-Croatians-identified-in-US-1930-census.html National Archives and Records Administration . . . to ensure ready access to essential evidence . . .thatdocuments the rights of American citizens,the actions of federal officials, and the national experience . . . National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) had recently released microfilms containing full data about 1930 census. The microfilms are now available for viewing to the citizens searching for the factsabout their ancestors, genealogists researching family trees, and scholars writing emigration history of their co-patriots. Last Sunday I learned from my American friend how he found out that his grandmother was Croatian. Searching through the microfilms for the data about his grandfather he discovered that under the column "The language spoken in your home before coming to America" his grandmother entered "Croatian". He waselated. From that column ( which did not appear on the forms before or after 1930 census) one can learn not only about the nationality of their ancestors but also about more exact numbers of Croatians who immigrated to the Unites States in large numbers before 1930.This information woud become a valuable documented record since in previous censuses Croatians were registered as nationals of the countries they came from, ie. Austria-Hungary before 1918, and Kingdome of Yugoslavia from 1918-1930. It woud we very commandable for Croatian scholars and interested organizations to undertakeÂthe research of those microfilms and publish more accurate history of Croatian immigrants in America. More information about locations of Regional Archives where the microfilms can be viewed, whatquestions were asked on the 1930 census and how to view, rent or buy the microfilms can be found on the following Website:http://1930census.archives.gov----------------------------------------------- Nedavno je Uprava nacionalne arhive i podataka (NARA) pustila u javnost mikrofilmove sÂpodacima iz popisa stanovnistva SAD obavljenog 1930. godine. Ti podaci su sada dostupni svimÂgradjanima koji zele proucavati rodoslovlje svojih predaka kao i ustanovama i znanstvenicima uÂsvrhu prikupljanja podataka o povijesti iseljavanja svojih sunarodnjaka. Od jednog americkog prijatelja slucajno sam doznao kako je on iz tog popisa ustanovio da jeÂnjegova baka bila Hrvatica. Trazeci podatke o svome djedu, pod njegovim prezimenom i imenogÂte mjestu boravka pronasao je upitni arak u kojem je izmedju ostalih stajala i rubrika: "JezikÂkojim se govorilo u Vasem kucanstvu prije dolaska u Ameriku". Njegova baka je upisalaÂ"hrvatski", Upravo iz te rubrike o materinskom jeziku (koji se vise ne pojavljuje u kasnijim popisima) mozeÂse nesto vise doznati ne samo o vlastitim precima nego se moze ustanoviti i tocniji broj HrvataÂkoji su se iselili u Ameriku do 1930. godine. To bi bio jedan dragocijeni podatak koji je do sada bioÂpredmetom nagadjanja obzirom na to da raniji hrvatski iseljenici, koji su se iselili u najvecemÂbroju upravo do 1930. godine, u prijasnjim popisima nisu bili upisani kao "Hrvati" ili da govoreÂ"hrvatskim" jezikom nego do 1918. kao podanici Austro-Ugarske, a od 1918. do 1930. kao podaniciÂ"Kraljevine Jugoslavije", tj. drzava iz kojih su dosli. Za nadati se je da ce se naci barem jedan hrvatski znanstvenik ili koja ustanova koji ceÂiskoristiti ovu jedinstvenu priliku i na osnovu podataka iz ovih mikrofilmova dokumentarnoÂdopuniti povijet hrvatskog iseljenistva u Ameriku. Mikrofilmovi se mogu pogledati u uredima Uprave nacionalne arhive i podataka koji se nalazeÂu 12 podrucnih mjesta diljem SAD. Poblizi podaci i adrese tih mjesta mogu se doznati naÂslijedecoj internet adresi: http://1930census.archives.govÂpod:NARA locations.Bozidar Abjanictabjanic@nethere.comÂNational Archives and Records Administration home pageURL: http://1930census.archives.gov /beginSearch.aspÂÂÂÂÂÂÂinquire@nara.govÂLast updated March 11, 2002 letters@croatia.org (Nenad N. Bach) Sun, 01 Sep 2002 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5795/1/E-The-Washington-Times---DATA.html DATAStaffDirectoryLetters to the Editorletters@washingtontimes.comSubmita letter to the editor. 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