Croatia as a Danube country

✍ Scribed by Ivan Crkvenčić; Adolf Malić

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 639 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0343-2521
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00446252

✦ Synopsis

Among the three principal regional units of Croatia, i.e. the elongated and spacious Adriatic littoral (with numerous islands), the relatively small and narrow mountainous belt ("the Croatian transit doorway") and the Pannonian/peri-Pannonian region, the latter is the largest and accounts for 54 percent of the surface area and 66 percent of the population of Croatia (1991 census). It is part of the Pannonian (or Carpathian) basin, or the central Danube basin, so that Croatia is simply by its position a Danube country. Its Danube character is also highlighted by the fact that the Pannonian/peri-Pannonian region of Croatia through the Sava and Drava Rivers is directly linked to the navigable Danube, which is the historical and ethnic eastern boundary of Croatia. Croatia is an old historical Danube nation and country, although it has nominally appeared as a state after the break-up of Yugoslavia, and its international recognition as an independent state (1992).