<Ul> <Li>. hr and . eu </Li> </Ul> <Li>. hr and . eu </Li> <P> Croatia (/ kroʊˈeɪʃə / (listen), kroh - AY - shə; Croatian: Hrvatska Serbo - Croatian pronunciation: (xř̩ʋaːtskaː)), officially the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Republika Hrvatska, listen (help info)) is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea . Its capital Zagreb forms one of the country's primary subdivisions, along with twenty counties . Croatia has an area of 56,594 square kilometres (21,851 square miles) and a population of 4.28 million, most of whom are Roman Catholics . </P> <P> The Croats arrived in the area in the 6th century and organised the territory into two duchies by the 9th century . Tomislav became the first king by 925, elevating Croatia to the status of a kingdom, which retained its sovereignty for nearly two centuries, reaching its peak during the rule of kings Petar Krešimir IV and Dmitar Zvonimir . Croatia entered a personal union with Hungary in 1102 . In 1527, faced with Ottoman conquest, the Croatian Parliament elected Ferdinand I of Austria to the Croatian throne . In October 1918, in the final days of World War I, the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, independent from Austria - Hungary, was proclaimed in Zagreb, and in December 1918 it was merged into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes . Following the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, most of the Croatian territory was incorporated into the Nazi - backed client - state which led to the development of a resistance movement and the creation of the Federal State of Croatia which after the war become a founding member and a federal constituent of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . On 25 June 1991, Croatia declared independence, which came wholly into effect on 8 October of the same year . The Croatian War of Independence was fought successfully for four years following the declaration . </P>

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