Arrival of the Slavs
Early Slavs, especially Sclaveni and Antae, including the White Croats, invaded and settled the Southeastern Europe in the 6th and 7th century.
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Croats speak Croatian, a South Slavic lect of the Western South Slavic subgroup. Standard Croatian is considered a normative variety of Serbo-Croatian, and is mutually intelligible with … 查看更多內容

Tradition
The area settled by Croats has a large diversity of historical and cultural influences, as well as diversity of terrain and geography. The coastland areas of Dalmatia and Istria were subject to Roman Empire 查看更多內容

In Croatia (the nation state), 3.9 million people identify themselves as Croats, and constitute about 90.4% of the population. Another 553,000 live in Bosnia and Herzegovina, … 查看更多內容

Genetically, on the Y-chromosome DNA line, a majority (75%) of male Croats from Croatia belongs to haplogroups I (38%–43%), R1a (22%–25%) and R1b (8%–9%), while a minority (25%) mostly belongs to haplogroup E (10%), and others to haplogroups 查看更多內容

Croats are predominantly Roman Catholic, and before Christianity they adhered to Slavic paganism or Roman paganism. The earliest record of contact between the Pope and the Croats dates from a mid-7th century entry in the Liber Pontificalis. Pope John IV (John … 查看更多內容

The flag of Croatia consists of a red-white-blue tricolor with the Coat of Arms of Croatia in the middle. The red-white-blue tricolor was chosen as those were the colours of Pan-Slavism, … 查看更多內容