Sentence examples for croat from inspiring English sources

Although most of the party's voters are Bosniaks, Mr Komsic is a Croat.

While ethnic tension arguably holds the rest of the country back, this city of 100,000 people has become a beacon for multi-ethnicity: the mayor is Croat, his deputy is Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) and the assembly's speaker is Serb.

Francis was greeted by Dragan Čović, the Croat member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, and Bosnian Cardinal Vinko Puljić when he arrived on Saturday.

If, as has been suggested, the Ibrox club are seeking £10m for the Croat then he is more likely than not to see out the season in Glasgow.

Francis said his visit to Bosnia will offer support to its post-war process of reconciliation, and also encourage the tiny Catholic Croat community, which represents only about 15% of the population.

Rather than being Bosniak, Croat or Serb, Brčko residents "saw themselves as citizens of the District", says Dedeić.

Or go headlong into the hip Yppenplatz Markt in a Croat-Turkish neighbourhood, a big draw for the "bobos" – the bourgeois bohemians who like to be seen sipping local beer at some of the colourful outdoor cafes.

Hardly any Muslim refugees have been able to return to their homes in Croat-or Serb-controlled parts of Bosnia.

Even in Bosnia, a country that remains bitterly divided, both emotionally and administratively, between Serb-, Muslim- and Croat-dominated areas, almost all citizens respond positively to the idea of EU membership.Whether western Europeans, already suffering from enlargement fatigue, are ready to welcome a country as poor and troubled as Bosnia, must be an open question.

In Croat-dominated areas of western Bosnia, hardline Croats successfully staged a referendum, against western wishes, to back their demand for a "sovereign" statelet that would be fenced off from the Muslims.

From Bosnia's Serb headquarters at Pale you cannot telephone Sarajevo, a dozen miles away in (theoretically) the same country, but you can make international calls via Belgrade, the Serbian capital.Likewise, the part of Bosnia's Muslim-Croat federation controlled by the Croats is already, for all practical purposes, part of Croatia proper.