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Josip Lucić
Josip Lucić (born 26 April 1957) is a Croats, Croatian general and former chief of General Staff of the Croatian Armed Forces, General Staff of the Armed Forces of Croatia, Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia. Youth Lucić was born in Posavski Podgajci near Drenovci on 26 April 1957. He finished elementary and high school in Zagreb. In 1984 he graduated at Faculty of Kinesiology of University of Zagreb, and in 1988 he became master of kinesiology. Military career In November 1990, Lucić voluntarily joined the units of the Croatian Ministry of Interior, where he became the Deputy Commander of the Special Battalion "Rakitje" and later Commander of the same battalion. He was also involved in the formation of an anti-terrorist police battalion. From May to December 1991, he was the Commander of 1st Guards Brigade (Croatia), 1st Guards Brigade "Tigers". As a Commander of the 1st Croatian National Guard brigade he participated in forming of second, third and fourth professional br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Posavski Podgajci
Posavski Podgajci is a Settlement (Croatia), village in eastern Croatia located west of Drenovci, near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. The population is 1,255 (census 2011). Name The name of the village in Croatian language, Croatian is plural. See also *Vukovar-Syrmia County *Cvelferija References Populated places in Vukovar-Srijem County Populated places in Syrmia {{VukovarSyrmia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stara Gradiška
Stara Gradiška (, ) is a village and a municipality in Slavonia, in the Brod-Posavina County of Croatia. It is located on the left bank of the river Sava, across from Gradiška in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Etymology The first word in the name means ''Old'' as there's also a ''New'' Gradiška nearby, the town of Nova Gradiška. History Until 1918, Stara Gradiška (then ''Alt-Gradiska)'' was part of the Habsburg monarchy (Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia after the compromise of 1867), in the Croatia-Slavonia Military Border District. The post-office was opened in 1859. In the late 19th and early 20th century, Stara Gradiška was part of the Požega County of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. The place is well known for the Stara Gradiška prison and Stara Gradiška concentration camp. The municipality is home to the cultural organization ''KUD Posavina''. It celebrates the feast of St. Michael as its municipal day. Stara Gradiška is underdeveloped municipality which is statistica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stjepan Mesić
Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić (; born 24 December 1934) is a Croatia, Croatian lawyer and politician who served as the president of Croatia from 2000 to 2010. Before serving two five-year terms as president, he was Prime Minister of Croatia, prime minister of SR Croatia (1990) after the first 1990 Croatian parliamentary election, multi-party elections, the last president of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1991) and consequently secretary general of the Non-Aligned Movement (1991), as well as the speaker of the Croatian Parliament (1992–1994), and mayor of his hometown of Orahovica. Mesić was a deputy in the Croatian Parliament in the 1960s, and was then absent from politics until 1990 when he joined the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), and was named President of the Executive Council (Prime Minister) of the Socialist Republic of Croatia (then still a constituent republic of the SFR Yugoslavia) after HDZ won the elections. His cabinet is, despite holding office before Croatia's independe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of Croatia
The president of Croatia, officially the president of the Republic of Croatia (), is the head of state, commander-in-chief of the military and chief representative of the Republic of Croatia both within the country and abroad. The president is the holder of the highest office in Croatia. However, the president is not the head of the executive branch ("non executive president") as Croatia has a parliamentary system in which the holder of the post of prime minister is the most powerful person within the country's constitutional framework and everyday politics. The president maintains the regular and coordinated operation and stability of the national government system, and safeguards the independence and territorial integrity of the country. The president has the power to call ordinary and extraordinary elections for the Croatian Parliament (in a manner specified by the Constitution of Croatia, Constitution), as well as to call referendums (with countersignature of the prime m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Staff Of The Armed Forces Of The Republic Of Croatia
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Glavni stožer Oružanih snaga Republike Hrvatske) is a joint body of the Armed Forces of Croatia, Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia established within the Ministry of Defence (Croatia), Ministry of Defence, responsible for commanding, preparing and using the Armed Forces. The General Staff of the Croatian Armed Forces enables the command of the entire Armed Forces in accordance with the orders of the President of Croatia, Commander-in-Chief and the acts of the Minister of Defence and performs other professional tasks for the needs of the Commander-in-Chief and the Minister of Defence. Structure of the General Staff The organization of the General Staff is dictated by the President of Croatia, Commander-in-Chief on the proposal of the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (Croatia), Chief of the General Staff and with the consent of the Minister of Defence. The General Staff of the Croati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karlovac
Karlovac () is a city in central Croatia. In the 2021 census, its population was 49,377. Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County. The city is located southwest of Zagreb and northeast of Rijeka, and is connected to them via the A1 highway (Croatia), A1 highway and the M202 railway (Croatia), M202 railway. Name The city was named after its founder, Charles II, Archduke of Austria. The German language, German name ''Karlstadt'' or ''Carlstadt'' ("Charlestown") has the equivalence in various languages: in Hungarian language, Hungarian it is known as ''Károlyváros'', in Italian language, Italian as ''Carlovizza'', in Latin language, Latin as ''Carolostadium'', and in Kajkavian dialect and Slovene language, Slovene as Karlovec. History The Habsburg monarchy, Austrians built Karlovac from scratch in 1579 in order to strengthen their southern defences against Ottoman Empire, Ottoman encroachments. The establishment of a new city-fortress was a part of the deal betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petar Zrinski
Petar IV Zrinski () (6 June 1621 – 30 April 1671) was Ban of Croatia (Viceroy) from 1665 to 1670, general and a writer. A member of the Zrinski noble family, he was noted for his role in the attempted Croatian-Hungarian Magnate conspiracy to overthrow the Habsburgs, which ultimately led to his execution for high treason. Zrinski family Petar Zrinski was born in Vrbovec, a small town near Zagreb, the son of Juraj V Zrinski and Magdalena Széchy. His father Juraj VI and great-grandfather Nikola IV had been viceroys or ''Ban'' of Croatia, which was then a nominal Kingdom in personal union with the Hungarian Kingdom. His brother was the Croatian-Hungarian general and poet Miklós Zrínyi (Nikola VII Zrinski). His family had possessed large estates throughout all of Croatia and had family ties with the second largest Croatian landowners, the Frankopan family. He married Ana Katarina, the half-sister of Fran Krsto Frankopan, and they lived in large castles of Ozalj (in Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Defense (Croatia)
The Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Croatia ( or MORH) is the ministry in the Government of Croatia which is in charge of the nation's military. It is Croatia's ministry of defence. The ministry was established in 1990. Structure Elements in the ministry's structure are: * Defence Minister and Deputy Minister * Minister's Cabinet * Chief Secretariat ** Sector for Administrative and Legal Affairs * Croatian Armed Forces General Staff * Defence Inspectorate * Military Security and Intelligence Agency * Independent Sector for Public Procurement * Independent Department for Public Affairs and Publishing * Independent Section for Internal Auditing * Independent Department for Military Air Traffic * Independent Department for supporting Military Ordinary in Croatia * Defence Policy Directorate and the assigned Assistant Minister ** Defence Policy Sector ** International Defence Cooperation and Security Sector * Human Resources Directorate and the assigned Assistant Minister * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UNTAES
The United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (UNTAES) was a UN peacebuilding transitional administration in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia, in the eastern parts of Croatia (multicultural Danube river region). The transitional administration lasted between 1996 and 1998. The transitional administration was formally established by the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1037 of January 15, 1996. The transitional administration was envisaged and invited in the November 1995 Erdut Agreement between the Croatian Government and the representatives of the local Serb community in the region. At the time of UNTAES deployment the region already hosted another traditional type UN peacekeeping mission known as the UNCRO. While the region was covered under the UNCRO's sector east (sector led by Russian and Belgian forces), the whole UNCRO mission was brought into question by the Operation Storm escalation of hostili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavonia
Slavonia (; ) is, with Dalmatia, Croatia proper, and Istria County, Istria, one of the four Regions of Croatia, historical regions of Croatia. Located in the Pannonian Plain and taking up the east of the country, it roughly corresponds with five Counties of Croatia, Croatian counties: Brod-Posavina County, Brod-Posavina, Osijek-Baranja County, Osijek-Baranja, Požega-Slavonia County, Požega-Slavonia, Virovitica-Podravina County, Virovitica-Podravina, and Vukovar-Syrmia County, Vukovar-Syrmia, although the territory of the counties includes Baranya (region), Baranya, and the definition of the western extent of Slavonia as a region varies. The counties cover or 22.2% of Croatia, inhabited by 806,192—18.8% of Croatia's population. The largest city in the region is Osijek, followed by Slavonski Brod and Vinkovci. Slavonia is located in the Pannonian Basin, largely bordered by the Danube, Drava, and Sava rivers. In the west, the region consists of the Sava and Drava valleys and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osijek
Osijek () is the fourth-largest city in Croatia, with a population of 96,848 in 2021. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja County. Osijek is on the right bank of the Drava River, upstream of its confluence with the Danube, at an elevation of . Name The name was given to the city due to its position on elevated ground, which prevented the city being flooded by the local swamp waters. Its name ''Osijek'' derives from the Croatian word ''oseka'' ' ebb tide'. Due to its history within the Habsburg monarchy and briefly in the Ottoman Empire, as well as the presence of German, Hungarian, and Serbian minorities throughout its history, Osijek has (or had) its names in other languages: Hungarian: ''Eszék'', German: , or , , and English: ''Esgek''. Its Roman name was ''Aelia Mursa'', ''Mursa'', and later ''Mursa Major'', which may be a form of the pre-existing na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
