Karlovac County is a county in central Croatia, with the administrative center in Karlovac. It borders Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia.
Sisak-Moslavina County is a Croatian county in eastern Central Croatia and southwestern Slavonia. It is named after the city of Sisak and the region Moslavina just across the river Sava. According to 2021 census, it is inhabited by 140,000 people.
The Baptist Union of Croatia is an association of Baptist Christian churches in Croatia. It is affiliated with the European Baptist Federation and the Baptist World Alliance.
Erdut is a village and a municipality in eastern Croatia some 37 km east of the major city of Osijek. Lying on the border with neighbouring Serbia, it was the site of the signing of the 1995 Erdut Agreement, which initiated the UNTAES transitional administration over the Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia.
Croatia is a predominantly Christian country, with Islam being a minority faith. It is followed by 1.3% of the country's population according to the 2021 census. Islam was first introduced to Croatia by the Ottoman Empire during the Croatian–Ottoman Wars that lasted from the 15th to 16th century. During this period some parts of the Croatian Kingdom were occupied which resulted in some Croats converting to Islam, some after being taken prisoners of war, some through the devşirme system. Nonetheless, Croats strongly fought against the Turks during these few centuries which resulted in the fact that the westernmost border of the Ottoman Empire in Europe became entrenched on the Croatian soil. In 1519, Croatia was called the Antemurale Christianitatis by Pope Leo X.
The Lepavina Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Presentation of Mary and located at the village of Sokolovac, near the town of Koprivnica in Croatia.
Christianity is the most widely professed religion in Croatia, representing 87.4% of the total population. A large majority of the Croats declare themselves to be members of the Catholic Church.
Moravice is a settlement in north-western Croatia, situated at the far east of the mountainous region of Gorski kotar in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. It is part of the Vrbovsko municipality. The population is 664.
Banovci ;, also known as Šidski Banovci, is a village located in the Vukovar-Syrmia County of Croatia, near the Serbian border. The village had a population of 256 as of the 2021 census.
Metropolitan Germogen, secular name Georgy Ivanovich Maximov, was bishop of Aksay, Vicar of the Don Diocese, 23rd Bishop of Yekaterinoslav and Novomoskovsk, Governor of the Russian Orthodox municipalities on Crete and North Africa with a seat in Athens (1922), Archbishop of Yekaterinoslav and Novomoskovsk (1922–1942), member of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (1924–1942), the head of the Croatian Orthodox Church (1942–1945).
The Metropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana is an Eastern Orthodox eparchy (diocese) and one of the five honorary metropolitanates of the Serbian Orthodox Church. The headquarters of the metropolia is located in Zagreb, Croatia, and its jurisdiction covers northern Croatia and the entire territory of Slovenia.
The Open Letter on the Position and Status of Serbs in Croatia was sent to the addresses of prominent Croatians and Serbians in September 2008. The letter spoke about the adverse social and economic circumstances in which Croatian Serbs had lived.
Dušan Bilandžić was a Croatian historian and politician.
Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Slavonia is an eparchy (diocese) of the Serbian Orthodox Church encompassing areas of western and central Slavonia, Croatia. Since 2014, the Eparchy is headed by bishop Jovan Ćulibrk.
Croat Muslims are Muslims of Croat ethnic origin. They consist primarily of the descendants of the Ottoman-era Croats.
The Eparchy of Marča was an Eastern Christian ecclesiastical entity taking two forms in the 17th century: an Eastern Orthodox eparchy and an Eastern Catholic vicariate. The term was derived from the name of the monastery at Marča near Ivanić-Grad, Habsburg monarchy.
Simeon Vratanja was an Ottoman Catholic prelate who served as the first Eparch of Marča (1609–11), the westernmost eparchy of the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć in the Serbian Orthodox Church, and after converting was the first Eastern Catholic Bishop of Marča (1611–28).
The Government of Croatia and the Holy See have signed four bilateral agreements and a protocol. Although the agreements proved controversial owing to great one-time and continuous financial and other burdens the agreements put on the Croatian state, no government of Croatia ever attempted to amend them. From the perspective of international law, these agreements may be seen as unjust to Croatia because of putting obligations chiefly on the Croatian state, but not on the Holy See.
The Library of the Eparchy of Slavonia, also known as the Pakrac's Library and abbreviated as PEP, is an cultural and historical institution of the Eparchy of Slavonia with a history of approximately 250 years.
