CROATIAThe new EU member – 1st July 2013

Presented by:

Mladen HanževačkiContinuing Airworthiness

Rulemaking Officer (SNE)

EASA Social

Committee Event

Cologne, 06.11.2013.

Croatia – ID Card

Sights of nature – national parks and nature parks

Croatian Adria, islands and beaches

Architecture

Great / famous Croatians

Bonus

Outline

* Country name: HRVATSKA

* Country code: HR

* Capital: ZAGREB (792.895)

* Population: 4.284.889

* Size: 56,594 km2 (126th)

89,810 km2 (land + sea)

* Language: Croatian

* Ethnic groups:

* Croatian – 90,4 %

* Serbs – 4,4 %

* Others: 5,2 %

* Religion: Roman catholic – 86%

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* Currency: KUNA (HRK) ~ 1 € = 7,5 HRK

*GDP (nominal):

* - Total $63.842 billion (65th)

* - Per capita $14,457 (44th)

* Bank deposits per capita = 4.700 €

* Bank loans (credits) = 3.900 €

* Average wages: $955 (733 €)

*Unemployment rate: 17,2% (EU=12,2%)

*HDI (2013): Increasing = 0.805

very high · 47th

*NATO member: since 2008

*Government: Unitary parliamentary constitutional republic

* Legislature: Sabor (Parliament)

CROATIA – ID Card

*Establishment:

* - Principality 8th century

* - Kingdom 925

* - Union with Hungary 1102

* - Joined Habsburg Empire 1 January 1527

* - SHS secession from Austria–Hungary

* 29 October 1918

* - Creation of the Kingdom of Serbs,

* Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia)

* 4 December 1918

* - Yugoslavia becomes a republic

* 29 November 1943

* - Decision on independence

* 25 June 1991

* - Declaration of independence

* 8 October 1991

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Croatia – the country with 1,244 islands

… and 5.835 km of sea coast (1.777 km land)

Adria beaches

The flying boat?

No, the clean and clear sea!

Sights of nature - National parks (8) and nature parks (11)

NP Mljet NP Krka

NP Kornati NP Brijuni

Plitvice Lakes

Plitvice Lakes

Plitvice Lakes in winter

Plitvice Lakes in Winter

Romanic architecture – Split

Diokletian palace

Romanic architecture – Pula

Arena Colosseum

Austro-Hungarian architecture

Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb

Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb

Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik

Great Croatians – Slavoljub Penkala (1871 – 1922)

Great Croatians – Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943)

“TESLA" - the SI unit measure for magnetic

field strength

Scientist and inovator:• alternating current electricity supply

• AC induction motor

• Transformer

• High voltage and high frequency power

experiments

• Radio communication, X-ray experiments

• Radio remote control vehicle

• Wireless transfer of electricity, …

Great Croatians – Faust Vrančić (1551 – 1617)

“Machinae Novae”

Great Croatians

Antun Lučić – inventor of the first oil drill (Texas 1855)

Ivan Lupis-Vukić – inventor of the first self-propelled torpedo

(27 August 1813 – 11 January 1875)

Ivan Vučetić – pioneer of the dactiloscopy (fingerprints

identification) – July 20, 1858 – January 25, 1925

Famous Croatians

Croatian team sports

Croatia is the best in the world for the number of human

organ donors and for kidney and liver transplants.

Croatia is No.1 in the world

Before you visit Croatia,

you should know …

(click on the picture to see video clip)

Before you visit Croatia,

you should know …(click on the picture to see video clip)

Before you visit Croatia,

you should know …(click on the picture to see video clip)

Thanks for watching

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