Croatia

It is 2 hours drive away. Is it not pretty? I am not saying this because it is my country, but it is one of the most beautiful places to live. Nature and history are so rich and beautiful.

Be sure to let me know if you decide to come :-)

Tought I should continue here...

"I agree Totally with Diamond. Here in the US we all speak English but I tell you there are differences in local dialect and idiom that I have a hard time understanding. I visited England and I couldn't understand them! LOL. And then there is techno speak for the different disciplines. You know the words but the order that they're in and how they use them is so very odd. Oh and then there are politicians who can say absolutely nothing but sound as if they have the world in the palm of their hand and they agree with you and are doing quite the opposite all at the same time.

When I was in graduate school I learned to think, speak and write in a particular way. Then I graduate, get work and that language wasn't useful. I worked for the federal government which is all acronyms and is rather political. Now I'm working at a local government level and its a different culture, language and application of what I learned in school and my previous jobs. It felt like I knew nothing at all and couldn't speak worth a darn.

When I get here I kind of type close to what I think LOL Like you said Lipizzan, you folks pretty much get what I mean so it's good.

Which makes me think of an odd thing about English. If I want to say "it is", I say "it's" because it is a contraction, must like "do not" and "don't" but if I have something that belongs to someone I have Susan's chair. What in the world is that?!"

We in Croatia also have different dialects. We have 21 region and every one of them have different way of pronouncing and talking, some of them have even different words. Most of them I understand well, but there is 2-3 regions that I don't understand at all. Like they are speaking a different language

These are the regions, I live in Osječko-Baranjska. 

Lipp- I am so happy you are on this forum, I am ashamed to say that my knowledge of your beautiful country was very lacking. I appreciate all of the information you share and love your pictures. You should be proud of the country you live in. It's beauty and culture are very interesting to me.

Your country voted for a women to be president.?? wow. did not know that.  and that is small.  but i am enjoying learning more about your country and it's traditions and values. and some of its language. thanks for sharing and helping us learn. smart horse 

OK, so I don't know if I wrote this already somewhere, but I hope you won't mind if I do repeat myself. I would like to write more about Croatia so that you can learn little bit more.

Republic of Croatia
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Its capital city is Zagreb.



Croatia covers 56,594 square kilometres (21,851 square miles) and has diverse, mostly continental and Mediterranean climates.



The country's population is 4.28 million, most of whom are Croats, with the most common religious denomination being Roman Catholicism.

A unitary state, Croatia is a republic governed under a parliamentary system.

Croatia is a member of the European Union (EU), United Nations (UN), the Council of Europe, NATO, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and a founding member of the Union for the Mediterranean. As an active participant in the UN peacekeeping forces, Croatia has contributed troops to the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan and took a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2008–2009 term.

Etymology

The name of Croatia derives from Medieval Latin Croātia – compare DUX CRUATORVM  ("Leader of the Croats")

Geography

Croatia is located in Central and Southeast Europe, bordering Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the southeast, Montenegro to the southeast, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest and Slovenia to the northwest. It lies mostly between latitudes 42° and 47° N and longitudes 13° and 20° E. Part of the territory in the extreme south surrounding Dubrovnik is a practical exclave connected to the rest of the mainland by territorial waters, but separated on land by a short coastline strip belonging to Bosnia and Herzegovina around Neum.



Climate

Most of Croatia has a moderately warm and rainy continental climate as defined by the Köppen climate classification. Mean monthly temperature ranges between −3 °C (27 °F) (in January) and 18 °C (64 °F) (in July).

Languages

Croatian is the official language of Croatia, and became the 24th official language of the European Union upon its accession in 2013. Minority languages are in official use in local government units where more than a third of population consists of national minorities or where local legislation defines so. Those languages are Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Ruthenian, Serbian and Slovakian.

Fun facts about Croatia

here's the link about facts and lies(although) I don't agree with everything written about the lies. 

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Entire coast line is owned by Croatia, but that little peace of land like you said is owned by Bosnia and Herzegovina. We are in really good relationship with them so it works good that way so that they have approach to the sea.
Island are mostly all populated, so people do live there, they are gorgeous like you said, like a little peace of paradise.

Hehe I would do that too :-P

MM if i win the mega lotto i will buy the island and we will share it ok.  that way someone will be there all the time to take care of the horses and dogs and cats that are there. 
ah to dream. those islands look soooo beautiful. but i bet it is expensive to bring food and supplies to them. still worth it.