Stop! Don’t read this page! Instead, read the same text and see the pictures much larger by clicking here. OK, if you read this, you didn’t follow our advice. You may find that some of these small pictures are a bit mishapen. If so, just click on any of them to see them larger. Join us as we visit this developing democracy as it emerges from the chaos of Europe’s latest war. Croatia is crescent shaped, ironically because it clung to its coast while resisting the Ottomans who threatened from Bosnia for centuries. Hungarians took it over in 1102 and held on until the “war to end all wars” which we call WWI. It then joined its neighbors in becoming Yugoslavia. It declared independence in 1991 — but fought the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav army for 5 bloody
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