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Croatia

drawn on the map 1992–2024

Croatia fought a war of independence (1991–1995) marked by the siege of Vukovar, the shelling of Dubrovnik, and the 1995 Operation Storm; it joined NATO (2009), the EU (2013) and the eurozone (2023). Present status (Sept 2026): President Zoran Milanović (since 2020, re-elected early 2025); Prime Minister Andrej Plenković (HDZ, since 2016).

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Shown on the map
1992–2024
Peak area
53k km²
Region
Europe

Overview

Croatia fought a war of independence (1991–1995) marked by the siege of Vukovar, the shelling of Dubrovnik, and the 1995 Operation Storm; it joined NATO (2009), the EU (2013) and the eurozone (2023). Present status (Sept 2026): President Zoran Milanović (since 2020, re-elected early 2025); Prime Minister Andrej Plenković (HDZ, since 2016).

Common questions

What was Croatia?
Croatia fought a war of independence (1991–1995) marked by the siege of Vukovar, the shelling of Dubrovnik, and the 1995 Operation Storm; it joined NATO (2009), the EU (2013) and the eurozone (2023). Present status (Sept 2026): President Zoran Milanović (since 2020, re-elected early 2025); Prime Minister Andrej Plenković (HDZ, since 2016).
When is Croatia shown on the map?
The border data draws Croatia 1992–2024. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
How large was Croatia?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, Croatia covered about 53,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.

Sources

This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each state as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the ICTY and the 2004 Wiesel Commission for genocide and atrocity figures, and current news reporting (Reuters, AP, BBC, and others) for 2025–2026 political developments, which should be verified against live sources. The article this entry is anchored on:

This entry was last updated .

This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made

Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.

Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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