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The Croatian Islands: An Introduction
2020The chapter deals with main geographical features of Croatian islands. The Croatian archipelago contributes to the small islands of Europe with 1, 246 islands, islets, rocks and reefs. It is a place of multiple contacts between the sea, karst relief, Mediterranean climate and diverse flora and fauna, where there are few freshwater sources or surface ...
Faričić, Josip, Čuka, Anica
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ILLEGITIMATE BIRTHS ON THE CROATIAN ISLANDS
2022Within Europe, Croatia has always been noted for its low rate of births outside marriage. In relation to other European countries, only Greece, North Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina have lower extra-marital birth rates than Croatia. Croatia is particularly heterogeneous in terms of the extra-marital birth rate.
Mirošević, Lena, Mrđen, Snježana
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Frequent Toponyms of the Croatian Adriatic Islands [PDF]
, 2014 The research has focused on the etymological analysis of the toponyms on the islands of the East Adriatic coast which tend to repeat themselves frequently. Besides the Slavic ones (i.e. Kamenišnjak < Cro. kamen (‘stone’), Lupeščina < Cro. lupež (‘thief’), Pišćenjak < Cro.
Marasović-Alujević, Marina +1 more
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Croatian island population 2001.
2008The book presents demographic, geographic, historical, socio-economical and biomedical characteristics of Croatian island ...
Rudan, Igor +2 more
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Area of the Croatian Sea and Islands
1993The borders of the territorial units of Croatia were digitized from the map on a scale of 1:1,000,000 made in the Gauss-Krueger projection. A total of 19,000 points were digitized. The file of points in that projection was obtained by Helmert transformation from the local digitizer system based on reference points.
Lapaine, Miljenko +2 more
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Diseases of sheep on Croatian islands
2008According to the Croatian Livestock Centre’ s data (2006) over 100.000 sheep are bred on the islands for the purpose of producing meat (lambs) and milk (cheese). The majority are raised on the islands of Krk, Cres, Rab, Pag and Brač. Autochthonous (island) breeds predominate on these islands while Istrian and crossbreed sheep are represented in ...
Cergolj, Marijan +6 more
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Geostrategic Importance of Croatian Islands
2011Adriatic Sea has had a major geostrategic role on the contact between continental and Mediterranean Europe since the antiquity. Its position and physical features like profound indentedness of the sea into the mainland, well-indented coastline, and numerous islands and islets were crucial factors that attracted maritime forces and caused their mutual ...
Blaće, Ante +2 more
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Vocational Education on Croatian Islands
Vocational education in Croatia encompasses a wide range of programs and schools that provide practical training and expertise for various industries and professions. There is continuous effort in Croatia to improve the quality of vocational education to ensure that it meets the needs of the labour market and enables young people to pursue successful ...Krpanec, Eta +2 more
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Croatian Islands in the Online Language Sources
2022This paper presents some of the online language sources in which language data connected to Croatian islands can be found. These data pertain to spelling, grammar, the linguistic norm while providing us with dialectological, onomastic, etymological, and normative information.
Hudeček, Lana, Ramljak, Ozana
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Insight from Croatian Island Cohort
2022In 2015, the first birth cohort study in Croatia, named “Croatian Islands Birth Cohort Study (CRIBS)” was initiated. Our aim was to prospectively follow a sample of 500 pregnant women and their children in two sub-populations – island population (Croatian Dalmatian islands - Hvar and Brač) and mainland population (City of Split with its surroundings ...
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