Nikola Polić ( Praputnjak near

Bakar Bakar may refer to: *Bakar, Croatia Bakar is a town in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in western Croatia. The population of the town was 8,279 according to the 2011 Croatian census, including 1,473 in the titular settlement. Ninety percent of th ...

, 1842 –

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, 7 June 1902) was a journalist and an active member of the

Party of Rights The Party of Rights () was a Croatian nationalism, Croatian nationalist political party in Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia and later in Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. It was founded in 1861 by Ante Starčević and Eugen Kvaternik, two influ ...

Career

He moved to Chicago, United States where he published the ''Chicago'' weekly from 1892. It was one of the first publications of the

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. Polić used the ''Chicago'' to advocate better integration of Croats in the American Society. In 1893, Polić started publication of the journal ''Sloboda'' (lit. Liberty). In 1896 the two journals were merged and continued to be issued as ''Chicago-Sloboda''. Polić sold the ''Chicago-Sloboda'' to

Niko Gršković Niko Gršković (Vrbnik, 15 September 1863 – New York, 21 March 1949) was a priest, journalist and Croatian and Yugoslavian politician. From 1887, he served as a chaplain in a series of towns including Ogulin, Kraljevica, Fužine, Bakar, Deln ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Polić, Nikola 1842 births 1902 deaths Croatian journalists Party of Rights politicians People from Bakar