Croatia is a country with a lot of history and in order to make an adequate decision for our company we must first take a quick look at the recent history. Croatia has been in a hotspot for turmoil in the last hundred years. Consumed by wars, civil unrest, and political havoc. Heading into the 1900s Croatia did not even exist as it was officially part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the fall of the empire it join the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes becoming Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was ran on a royal dictatorship till it became the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia in 1945. The socialist party stayed in power till the 1970s when protests broke out demanding more freedom for the people and in 1990 the dream was realized when the country …show more content…
Croatia neighbors the countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro and Slovenia. It has a variety of topography as it has low plains in Central and Eastern Croatia and mountains in the east. Even though Croatia has mountain ranges, none of them reach above 6,000ft. Croatia itself is 65% mainland and 35% coastline. The land that boarders Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina, are low lands filled with plains, flat land, and forest (nearly 36% of Croatia is covered by forests). Land use of the mainland is used as: 26.09% arable land (land that is capable of producing crops), 2.27% permanent crops, and 71.65% used for other reasons. Croatia has quite a few resources for being a small country and these include: oil, coal, bauxite, low-grade iron ore, calcium, gypsum, natural asphalt, silica, mica, clays, salt, and hydropower. These resources are the main part of the economy and the trade for the country. The Croatian coast on the other hand is positioned between the Dinaric Alps in the east and the Adriatic Sea and has over 1,000 miles of shoreline. This shoreline, stretching from Slovenia in the north down to Montenegro in the south, contains thousands of small islands, islets, rocks and …show more content…
Croatia is in two climate areas: one being a Mediterranean climate and the other being a continental climate. The Mediterranean climate area is in western Croatia and it tends to have mild, wet winters and dry summers. This being ideal for the coastal resorts in the area. In central and eastern Croatia the climate is a continental climate which brings hot summers and cold winters, but neither being too extreme.
A positive feature of where Croatia is geographically located is that it is located so that it controls most land routes from Western Europe to Aegean Sea and Turkish Straits. This means that it is a center hub for major trade routes in and out of Europe to the east. This is a great advantage when it comes to Croatia’s involvement in the EU and its economic improvement. This is also a great thing for our company as it will allow us easy access to trade routes which means lower shipping costs for our
... that other republics felt to the need to be the same so that they did not become disadvantaged. Exaggeration was an integral part of the huge amounts of propaganda being beamed at the common people, all in an attempt to imbue them with the nationalist ideologies (Rogel 45). The Serb death count at Jasenovac was a wildly varying number, grossly overinflated by the Serbs and downplayed by the Croats. The Serbs even asserted that the Bosnia was just an administrative creation of Tito, designed to thwart the rights of the Serbs (Rogel 43). The Croats countered that the whole Yugoslav system under the communists had been run for the benefit of the Serbs, and Croatia had borne the economic brunt of it. All of this propaganda was disseminated in order to make the common get people feeling anxious enough that they felt it was necessary to take up arms to defend themselves.
Katarina Tepesh’s harrowing and engagingly straightforward account of her family history in communist Croatia and then in the United States after fleeing an abusive and alcoholic father in 1968 should be added to the shelf of memoirs of such family legacy, both for the new information it adds as well as for the story it continues to tell. This is the familiar story of the legacy of family trauma, alcoholism, and abuse—and as old as Original Sin. Since the mid-1990s, there has been a rise in literary and cultural accounts of growing up under the dark shadows of alcoholism and mental illness. Mary Karr’s poetic rendering of her East Texas upbringing, The Liars’ Club, is credited with the resurgence of memoir writing. In Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt captured the frame of mind of a child growing up under an Irish-romantic- alcoholic father that slaked his frustrated dreams and inflicted an amazing amount of suffering on his brood.
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Miklos Lengyel – Miklos was the husband of Olga before and during the Holocaust. He was the director of his own hospital in Cluj, Transylvania. He was very skilled in his practice and devoted a lot of time and effort into it. Miklos was a smart man and knew that he was always in a state of peril because of the German occupation. Early in 1944, an incident occurred. Miklos was accused of boycotting German pharmaceutical preparations in his hospital. He was able to get out of this situation, but it was not long before he was brought in again. In May, Miklos was brought in again and this time, he was being deported to Germany. At this point, Miklos and his family were sent to Auschwitz and Birkenau. He was separated from his wife while his children and parents-in-law were sent to the gas chambers. Miklos was able to see his wife again a few days after they were imprisoned.
Yugoslavia was a very diverse, ethnic, and peaceful place under communist rule ("Genocide in Bosnia--1992-1995"). For 40 years it stayed this way ("Genocide in Bosnia--1992-1995"). Provinces declared...
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Jaroslav the Wise was a very monumental leader for the people of Kievan Rus between 978-1019. He was a Kievan prince who was renown for his astounding legislating and lawmaking. He drastically improved the legal and justice system in Kiev through his successful military campaigns and and maintaining a policy which strengthened communication with neighboring populations. Jaroslav the Wise, father of famous Vladimir the Great, started his reign during his youth in Northern regions of Rus. As he reigned in the northern regions, there was a growing distaste between him and the rest of his family.
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