About Croatia
About Croatia
HRVATSKA - Croatia
The geographical situation
Croatia occupies the largest part of the eastern
Adriatic coast, as well as the deepest part of the Mediterranean Sea in European soil. The majority of the Adriatic coast with almost all islands belongs to Croatia.
Surface
The mainland covers 56 594 km2 and the coasts 31 479 km2.
Population
Croatia has 4,200,000 inhabitants.
National composition
The majority of the population are Croats; minorities are Serbs, Slovenes, Hungarians, Czechs, Italians and Albanians.
The capital of Croatia
is Zagreb with 800.000 inhabitants economic, transport, cultural and academic center in the country.
The length of the coast
6,278 km of which the islands alone account for 4398 km.
Number of islands and reefs
1244 islands, the largest of which are Krk and Cres.
Inhabited are 50 islands.
Here are a few of the most famous
The geographical situation
Croatia occupies the largest part of the eastern
Adriatic coast, as well as the deepest part of the Mediterranean Sea in European soil. The majority of the Adriatic coast with almost all islands belongs to Croatia.
Surface
The mainland covers 56 594 km2 and the coasts 31 479 km2.
Population
Croatia has 4,200,000 inhabitants.
National composition
The majority of the population are Croats; minorities are Serbs, Slovenes, Hungarians, Czechs, Italians and Albanians.
The capital of Croatia
is Zagreb with 800.000 inhabitants economic, transport, cultural and academic center in the country.
The length of the coast
6,278 km of which the islands alone account for 4398 km.
Number of islands and reefs
1244 islands, the largest of which are Krk and Cres.
Inhabited are 50 islands.
The highest peak
are the Dinar mountains with 1831 m
The climate
Croatia has three climate zones: the flat areas in the interior have a temperate continental climate, at altitudes above 1200 m mountain and along the Adriatic coast a pleasant Mediterranean climate with many sunny days, where summers are dry and hot and winters are mild and humid.
The average air temperature in the interior of the country in January -2 to 0 ° until on the coast to 23-26 July ° C.
Water temperatures around 12 ° C and in summer about 25 ° C.
are the Dinar mountains with 1831 m
The climate
Croatia has three climate zones: the flat areas in the interior have a temperate continental climate, at altitudes above 1200 m mountain and along the Adriatic coast a pleasant Mediterranean climate with many sunny days, where summers are dry and hot and winters are mild and humid.
The average air temperature in the interior of the country in January -2 to 0 ° until on the coast to 23-26 July ° C.
Water temperatures around 12 ° C and in summer about 25 ° C.
INVENTIONS
Croats are also a very inventive people with many well-known inventions,Here are a few of the most famous
Tie (kravata)
an invention by which we are known throughout the world. Croatia is the home of the tie, just as Switzerland is the home of Switzerland watches and cheese.
Already in the 17th century the French were enthusiastic about the traditional uniform of Croatian soldiers, who tied red neckerchief in a characteristic way.
Penkala (ballpoint pen)(inventor Slavoljub Penkala) Famous Croatian inventor, is the author of 80 patents. This marked the beginning of a new era in the world of stationery, he invented the mechanical pencil.
Dactyloscopy - (greek daktylos - Finger + SKOPEO - watching) - the science of fingerprints. Today the world criminology would be unthinkable without this great discovery of the Croatian Ivan Vučetić (1858) from the island of Hvar.
Through the research of human fingerprints, he noticed that there is no such thing as an identical fingerprint.
His method is called Dactiloscopy.
Speedometer - Device for controlling the speed of the vehicle. This invention is today the component of every vehicle.
Parachute - Croatian inventor (1551.-1617.) Faust Vrančić among other things, builder of many bridges and many other inventions, became known mainly by his invention: parachute
Vrančić builds a parachute, he uses canvas stretched on a rectangular frame and proves its function by jumping out of the tower of Venice 1617.
Vegeta - Zlata Bartl laboratory of Podravka he developed this spicy product, which is now a Croatian brand and is known and sold worldwide.
Torpedo - Croatian inventor Ivan Lupis, born in Rijeka, invented the torpedo. Briton Robert Whitehead later perfected the invention.
Torpedo is a weapon that changed war at sea forever.
MP3-Player – Croatian developer and student of the Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Tomislav Uzelac made the AMP MP3 playback engine, the invention is considered the first MP3 player.
Already in the 17th century the French were enthusiastic about the traditional uniform of Croatian soldiers, who tied red neckerchief in a characteristic way.
Penkala (ballpoint pen)(inventor Slavoljub Penkala) Famous Croatian inventor, is the author of 80 patents. This marked the beginning of a new era in the world of stationery, he invented the mechanical pencil.
Dactyloscopy - (greek daktylos - Finger + SKOPEO - watching) - the science of fingerprints. Today the world criminology would be unthinkable without this great discovery of the Croatian Ivan Vučetić (1858) from the island of Hvar.
Through the research of human fingerprints, he noticed that there is no such thing as an identical fingerprint.
His method is called Dactiloscopy.
Speedometer - Device for controlling the speed of the vehicle. This invention is today the component of every vehicle.
Parachute - Croatian inventor (1551.-1617.) Faust Vrančić among other things, builder of many bridges and many other inventions, became known mainly by his invention: parachute
Vrančić builds a parachute, he uses canvas stretched on a rectangular frame and proves its function by jumping out of the tower of Venice 1617.
Vegeta - Zlata Bartl laboratory of Podravka he developed this spicy product, which is now a Croatian brand and is known and sold worldwide.
Torpedo - Croatian inventor Ivan Lupis, born in Rijeka, invented the torpedo. Briton Robert Whitehead later perfected the invention.
Torpedo is a weapon that changed war at sea forever.
MP3-Player – Croatian developer and student of the Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Tomislav Uzelac made the AMP MP3 playback engine, the invention is considered the first MP3 player.
M-parking (SMS-parking)
It is a unique accounting system, developed by the first Croatian experts in the world, and is exclusively the result of domestic wisdom. The service was fully developed by the experts of Vipnet in 2001, a few months after the worldwide introduction of GPRS, the basis for the service. The payment model for parking by mobile phone was later adopted by numerous operators worldwide.
Maglite
Ante Maglica was born in New York in 1930, but spent his childhood on Zlarin. His family returned to him because of the great economic crisis and they returned to the USA in 1950. He earned his living as a mechanic and in his spare time he worked on his inventions in the garage. In the late 1970s, he launched the Maglite hand lamp, which quickly became popular with the US military, police and firefighters due to its high-quality material (made of solid aluminium), durability and beam strength.
Further inventions of the Croats are the hydroelectric power generation, the compass, the
Electric light bulb and lightning conductor (Nikola Tesla),...
Electric light bulb and lightning conductor (Nikola Tesla),...