21 Facts About Croats

Early Slavs, especially Sclaveni and Antae, including the White Croats, invaded and settled the Southeastern Europe in the 6th and 7th century.

Whilst there is possible evidence of population continuity between Gothic and Croatian times in parts of Dalmatia, the idea of a Gothic origin of Croats was more rooted in 20th century Ustase political aspirations than historical reality.

Croats became the dominant local power in northern Dalmatia, absorbing Liburnia and expanding their name by conquest and prestige.

Croats probably died c 900 fighting against his former allies, the Magyars.

Dalmatian Croats were recorded to have been subject to the Kingdom of Italy under Lothair I, since 828.

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Croats did conquer it, but the circumstances changed later and lost it.

Croats was succeeded by Dmitar Zvonimir, who was of the Svetoslavic branch of the House of Trpimirovic, and a Ban of Slavonia .

Croats's army resisted repelling Hungarian assaults, and restored Croatian rule up to the river Sava.

Croats reassembled his forces in Croatia and advanced on Gvozd Mountain, where he met the main Hungarian army led by King Coloman I of Hungary.

Croats appointed his brother Mladen I Subic as Ban of Bosnia, and helped Charles I from House of Anjou to be the King of Hungary.

Croats were fighting in unfavorable conditions, against both Vienna and Budapest, while divided on Banska Hrvatska, Dalmatia and Military Frontier.

Croats became one of the constituent nations of the new kingdom.

The state was transformed into the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929 and the Croats were united in the new nation with their neighbors – the South Slavs-Yugoslavs.

In 1939, the Croats received a high degree of autonomy when the Banovina of Croatia was created, which united almost all ethnic Croatian territories within the Kingdom.

Post-WWII Yugoslavia became a federation consisting of 6 republics, and Croats became one of two constituent peoples of two – Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The distribution, variance and frequency of the I2 and R1a subclades among Croats are related to the medieval Slavic expansion, most probably from the territory of present-day Ukraine and Southeastern Poland.

Croats speak Croatian, a South Slavic lect of the Western South Slavic subgroup.

Croats are predominantly Roman Catholic, and before Christianity they adhered to Slavic paganism or Roman paganism.

Croats were never obliged to use Latin—rather, they held masses in their own language and used the Glagolitic alphabet.

Smaller groups of Croats adhere to other religions, like Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism and Islam.

Subgroups of Croats are commonly based on regional affiliation, like Dalmatians, Slavonians, Zagorci, Istrians etc.