Shortly after 12:30 PM on 21 December 1991, a group of Yugoslav Air Force fighter jets attacked Crljenka Airport near Vrsar in Istria. As there was a dense fog at …
Dr. Franjo Tuđman, the first President of the Republic of Croatia and Commander-in-Chief of the victorious Croatian Army in the Homeland War, passed away on 10 December 1999. Born in …
In the morning of 25 November 1991, a special Yugoslav military plane landed at Pleso Airport near Zagreb. Among its passengers were 27 prisoners of war who were exchanged for …
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. …
