During the five difficult days of the Battle of Dubrovnik from November 8-13, 1991 Croatian forces were forced to abandon their positions above the city at Strinčjer, Bosanka and Srđ. …
The Velebit Mountain Company was founded in 1991 when a group of experienced mountaineers, alpinists and speleologists began to mobilize around Jerko Kirigin in the Croatian Mountaineering Association. They all …
Even though he was the only Catholic priest killed during the Homeland War, little is known about the character and work of Ivan Burik. Burik was born on 8 November …
On this day in 1992, camerman Tihomil “Tuna” Tunuković killed while on assignment in the vicinity of Travnik in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Born in Zagreb on June 30, 1967, Tunuković completed his …
The Dubrovnik hinterland was fiercely attacked by the Yugoslav People’s Army (YPA) and Montenegrin reservists in early October of 1991. After the occupation of the suburb of Slano, the city …
After entering the former National and University Library in Zagreb, today’s Croatian State Archives, there are paintings of four cities located in the atrium. Above the entrance to the small …
At 8:51 PM on 27 October 1991, Yugoslav People’s Army (YPA) aircraft dropped cluster bombs on the Hungarian town of Barcs along the Drava River not far from Virovitica, Croatia. …
October 17, 1990 was one of the most important dates in the history of Croatian football. On that day, the Croatian Men’s National Soccer Team played its first game in …
After Croatia declared independence on 25 June 1991, the international community postponed the declaration for three months on 7 July through the Brijuni Declaration. In those three months, the Serb …
At 2:47 PM on 7 October 1991, a general public alert was sounded in the city of Zagreb. Fourteen minutes later, a Yugoslav Air Force jet flew over the historic …
