The Order of Ante Starčević () is a

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

n national decoration which ranks twelfth in importance. The order was formed on 10 March 1995. The Order of Ante Starčević is granted to Croatians and foreigners for their contributions to the development of the Croatian state. It is named after

Ante Starčević Ante Starčević ( ; 23 May 1823 – 28 February 1896) was a Croatian politician and writer. His policies centered around Croatian state law, the integrity of Croatian lands, and the right of Croats, his people to self-determination. As an import ...

Notable recipients

Mate Boban Mate Boban (; 12 February 1940 – 7 July 1997) was a Bosnian Croat politician and one of the founders of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, an unrecognized entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the first president of Herzeg-Bosnia ...

Tuđman, Franjo
Odluka
Narodne novine. 1995-05-28. Retrieved 2020-09-29 *

Dalibor Brozović Dalibor Brozović (; 28 July 1927 – 19 June 2009) was a Croatian linguist, Slavist, dialectologist and politician. He studied the history of standard languages in the Slavic region, especially Croatian. He was an active Esperantist since 1 ...

* Bruno Bušić *

Ljubo Ćesić Rojs Ljubo Ćesić (born 20 February 1958), best known by his nickname Rojs, is a retired Croatian army general and politician. Military service A native Herzegovinian Croat, Ćesić moved to Zagreb in 1984, where he got a job as a bus driver. He c ...

Šime Đodan Šime Đodan (27 December 1927 – 2 October 2007) was a Croatian politician, a two-term Member of Parliament who also briefly served as the 3rd Ministry of Defense (Croatia), Minister of Defense of Croatia in 1991. Personal life Šime Đodan ...

Žarko Domljan Žarko Domljan (14 September 1932 – 5 September 2020) was a Croatian politician who served as the first Speaker of the Croatian Parliament following Croatia's independence from Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_sp ...

* Branimir Glavaš *

Ante Gotovina Ante Gotovina (born 12 October 1955) is a Croatian retired lieutenant general and former French senior corporal who served in the Croatian War for Independence. He is noted for his primary role in the 1995 Operation Storm. In 2001, the Intern ...

* Hartmut Koschyk * Ivan Lacković Croata *

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 Posavs ...

Ivić Pašalić Ivić Pašalić (; born 3 November 1960) is a Croatian politician and former prominent member of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). Education and medical career Pašalić was born in Šuica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He attended high school in ...

Hrvoje Šarinić Hrvoje Šarinić (; 17 February 1935 – 21 July 2017) was a Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 1992 to 1993. Šarinić was born in Sušak and graduated from the University of Zagreb then-Faculty of Architecture, ...

Christian Schmidt Hans Сhristian Friedrich Schmidt (born 26 August 1957) is a German politician and member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina since August 2021. ...

(awarded July 2013;istraga.ba
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Andrej Plenković Andrej Plenković ( ; born 8 April 1970) is a Croatian politician serving as the Prime Minister of Croatia, prime minister of Croatia since October 2016. He was previously one of eleven List of members of the European Parliament for Croatia, 201 ...

in January 2020facebook Christian Schmidt
/ref>) * Dario Kordić * Vladimir Šeks *

Gojko Šušak Gojko Šušak (; 16 March 1945 – 3 May 1998) was a Croatian politician who held the post of Ministry of Defence (Croatia), Minister of Defence from 1991 to 1998 under President Franjo Tuđman. From 1990 to 1991 he was the Minister of Emigration ...

Franjo Tuđman Franjo Tuđman (14 May 1922 – 10 December 1999) was a Croatian politician and historian who became the first president of Croatia, from 1990 until his death in 1999. He served following the Independence of Croatia, country's independe ...

* Nikica Valentić * Ivan Vekić * Vice Vukojević * Muhamed Zulić

Sources

* Law on Orders, Decorations and Signs of Recognitions of the Republic of Croatia ("Narodne novine", No
20/95.
an

- articles 6 and 16 * Statute on the Order of Ante Starčević ("Narodne novine", No

from November 3, 2000).

References

Orders, decorations, and medals of Croatia Awards established in 1995 1995 establishments in Croatia {{Odm-stub