Croatia
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Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Republika Hrvatska, is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe. It shares a coastline along the Adriatic Sea and borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west and southwest. Croatia's capital and largest city, Zagreb, forms one of the country's primary subdivisions, with twenty counties. The country spans an area of 56,594 square kilometers (21,851 square miles), with a population of nearly 3.9 million.
The Croats arrived in the 6th century and organized the territory into two duchies by the 9th century. Croatia was first internationally recognized as independent on 7 June 879 during the reign of Duke Branimir. Tomislav became the first king by 925, elevating Croatia to the status of a kingdom. During the succession crisis after the Trpimirović dynasty ended, 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, the State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs, independent from Austria-Hungary, was proclaimed in Zagreb, and in December 1918, merged into the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Following the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, most of Croatia was incorporated into a Nazi-installed puppet state, the Independent State of Croatia. A resistance movement led to the creation of the Socialist Republic of Croatia, which after the war became a founding member and constituent of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. On 25 June 1991, Croatia declared independence, and the War of Independence was fought for four years following the declaration.
A sovereign state, Croatia is a republic governed under a parliamentary system. It is a member of the European Union, the United Nations, the Council of Europe, NATO, the World Trade Organization, and a founding member of the Union for the Mediterranean. An active participant in United Nations peacekeeping, Croatia has contributed troops to the International Security Assistance Force and took a nonpermanent seat on the United Nations Security Council for the 2008–2009 term. Since 2000, the Croatian government has invested in infrastructure, especially transport routes and facilities along the Pan-European corridors.
Croatia is classified by the World Bank as a high-income economy and ranks 43rd on the Human Development Index. Service, industrial sectors, and agriculture dominate the economy, respectively. Tourism is a significant source of revenue, with Croatia ranked among the 20 most popular tourist destinations. The state controls a part of the economy, with substantial government expenditure. The European Union is Croatia's most important trading partner. Croatia provides social security, universal health care, and tuition-free primary and secondary education while supporting culture through public institutions and corporate investments in media and publishing.
Between 1943 and 1991, Croatia was part of Yugoslavia. In 1991, Croatia declared independence and became a sovereign state.
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Spanking in Croatia
School corporal punishment was banned in Croatia in 1999.
Croatian spanking artists
None known so far.
Spanking scenes in Croatian films
The 1979 Yugoslav-Swiss-German TV series Die rote Zora und ihre Bande (set in the 1930s and filmed on location in the Croatian town of Senj) features a spanking scene. A gang of adolescent orphans have stolen a chicken from the fisherman Gorian. The gang's newest member Branko disapproves of this because he knows Gorian is a poor man himself. Together with the red-haired girl Zora, the head of the gang, he steals two chicken from the rich farmer Karaman, then they try to secretly put them into Gorian's pen. Gorian however is on the look-out and catches Branko and Zora. Believing the chicken thieves of the previous night have returned, he grabs his stick and first gives Branko a hiding on the spot. When he tries to do the same with Zora, Branko stops him and explains they are not guilty. Later Branko and Zora become best friends with Gorian.
See also
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