The word "Croatia" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the country in Europe that lies on the northeastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, such as in the sentence: "My family and I recently went on a vacation to Croatia."
Iceland head to Croatia for the second leg of their World Cup play-off as they look to make history and qualify for their first major tournament.
It was a real surprise the way the Cannes audience responded to it; in Croatia they responded in the same way.
Austria, Slovakia, Croatia and the Czech Republic are in the throes of sleaze allegations involving senior politicians and governing parties said to be funded by dirty money.
We won't have September data for a few days, but as of the end of August, total outflows had hit $68.8bn – more than the GDP of either Croatia or Costa Rica, and double all the fixed income assets managed by Janus Capital Group, Gross's new employer.
Slovenia is already a member and Croatia is slated to become the EU's 28th member next year.
In December Sanader's HDZ was drummed out of office in Croatia as was the centre-right in Slovakia earlier this month.
Instead, the kingdom will now be located on a portion of unclaimed land along the Danube river "near the Free Republic of Liberland (on the Croatia-Serbia border)", he added.
The concept of a free city in Europe may not be new – the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdansk) was semi-autonomous between the two world wars, while Fiume (now Rijeka) was once administered separately from both Hungary and Croatia-Slavonia – but Brčko has given the idea new life.
While a Hague-based international arbitration panel is expected to rule on the Slovenia-Croatia border by the end of this year, a solution of the dispute between Croatia and Serbia is still not in sight.
"We cease all activities related to the establishment of the new state on a strip of land on the Croatia-Slovenia border," Piotr Wawrzynkiewicz, one of the founders of Enclava, said in a statement sent to AFP.
A border city, pressed close against Croatia and Serbia, it was mainly Bosniak when war broke out in 1992.
