This PPT is best used as a short introduction to Republic of Croatia, its people, towns, history and location.

1. CROATIA
Full of Life!

2. Where are we?

4. Our population!

5. 90.42%
9.58% Croats: 3 874 321
Serbs: 186 633
Bosniaks/Muslims: 39 037
Italians: 17 807

6. Temperatures in Croatia!

7. ~ 30°C

8. ~ -5°C

9. Our beautiful sea!

10. Zlatni rat

11. Dubrovnik

12. Split

13. Zadar

14. What does the “crown” mean?

15. Oldest known
Croatian symbol
Republic of
Ragusa/Dubrovnik
Dalmatia
Istria Slavonia

16. Zagreb

17. Osijek

18. Slavonski Brod

19. Our national holidays!

20. 1st of January
New Year

21. Easter,
Easter Monday and
Corpus Christi

22. 1st of May
Labor Day

23. 22nd of June
Day of Antifascist Struggle

24. 25th of June
Statehood Day

25. 5th of August
Victory Day and
Homeland Thanksgiving Day

26. 15th of August
Assumption of Mary

27. 8th of October
Independence Day

28. 1st of November
Day of All Saints

29. 25th and 26th of December
Christmas and
St. Stephen’s Day

30. Ramadan Bayram
Kurban Bayram
Rosh Hasanah
Yom Kippur

31. They are Croats, too!
Nikola Tesla Slavoljub Penkala Ivan Vukić

32. They are Croats, too!
Faust Vrančić Franjo Hanaman Leo Sternbach

33. They are Croats, too!
Branko Lustig Rade Šerbeđija Goran Višnjić

34. They are Croats, too!
Goran Ivanišević Janica Kostelić Blanka Vlašić

35. They are Croats, too!
Josip Broz Tito Franjo Tuđman Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović

36. Some facts about Croatia!

37. We have 2 715 hours of Sun each year!

38. Croatian GDP has grown for more than 2%
during the election time!

39. We have weird names for some places:
Sveti Petar u šumi = St. Peter in the Forest
Donje/Gornje Gnojnice = Lower/Upper Slurry
Ženodraga = Dear Wife!
Veliko Svinjičko = Big Pig
Grudnjak = Bra
Gačice = Panties
Babina Guzica = Grandma’s Ass

40. Did you ever wonder…
What makes a person Croatian?
What makes us different from the world?

41. Your Grandma and Grandpa
have a shot of Rakija for breakfast!
Or even worse: Rachhiato…cheers!

42. Your dad insists that you pick the branch yourself
and then he would beat the HELL out of you!

43. “You’re NOBODY if you don’t graduate from faculty!”
– your Croatian parents

44. Your mother washes the dishes before
putting them in the dishwasher.
If your grandma lives with you, you don’t need a dishwasher…

46. You live with your parents until you are married.

47. “You’re having a flu? That’s because you’re not eating enough!”
- your Croatian mom

48. Grandma and Grandpa are wearing at least 3
layers of clothing in ALL SEASONS!

49. At least one person in your Croatian family is making some
kind of alcohol (mostly Rakija & Wine)!

50. You are only allowed to vacation in the homeland…
which is not actually bad!

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