''Večernji list'' (also known as ''Večernjak''; ) is a Croatian daily
newspaper
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published in
Zagreb
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.
History and profile
''Večernji list'' was started in
Zagreb
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in 1959.
Its ancestor ''Večernji vjesnik'' ("Evening Courier") appeared for the first time on 3 June 1957 in Zagreb on 24 pages but quickly merged with ''Narodni list'' (meaning "People's Paper" in English) to form what is today known as ''Večernji list''.
''Večernji list'' is considered a conservative leaning newspaper.
Editions
''Večernji list'' formerly had multiple regional and two foreign editions:
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Dalmatia
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Istria
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Primorje-
Lika
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Slavonia
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and
Baranja
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Podravina and
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Varaždin and
Međimurje
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Zagorje
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Sisak
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Karlovac
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Zagreb
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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* International edition
In 2012, all of the Croatian regional editions were merged, so four editions remain: Zagreb, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and World.
Croatia to the World
In February 2021, Večernji list, in collaboration with the
Academy of Fine Arts and the Croatian Society of Fine Artists (HDLU), compiled a list of the 38 Croatians (ethnically Croat or connected to Croatia)
who gave most to the world, influencing global history. They organized an exhibition held at the
Meštrović Pavilion, entitled "Croatia to the World" (''Hrvatska svijetu''), including over a thousand items connected to the thirty-eight masterminds.
The first twelve names were chosen in 2019, but the list was then extended to 38 greats by February 2021.
The list is composed of:
Ivo Andrić,
Giorgio Baglivi,
Josip Belušić,
Roger Joseph Boscovich,
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić,
Ivan Česmički,
Marin Getaldić,
Franjo Hanaman,
Jerome
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Marcel Kiepach
Marcel Kiepach (12 February 1894 – 12 August 1915) was an inventor who was a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire of Croatian ethnicity. The works and inventions of this child prodigy belong to the areas of electronics, magnetism, acoustics, ...
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Julije Klović
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, Slavko Kopač,
Benedikt Kotruljević,
Zinka Kunc-Milanov,
Antun Lučić
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,
Giovanni Luppis,
Dora Maar,
Marko Marulić,
Ivan Meštrović,
Andrija Mohorovičić,
Franciscus Patricius,
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala,
Marco Polo,
Herman Potočnik
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Vladimir Prelog,
Mario Puratić
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, Lavoslav Ružan,
Andrea Schiavone,
David Schwartz,
Pope Sixtus V
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,
Mia Slavenska,
Andrija Štampar,
Rudolf Steiner,