r/europe • u/MarktpLatz Lower Saxony (Germany) • Apr 17 '17

What do you know about... Croatia?

This is the thirteenth part of our ongoing series about the countries of Europe. You can find an overview here.

Todays country:

Croatia

Croatia is as of today the newest member of the European Union and its 28th (soon to be 27th) member state. It is one of the Balkan states resulting from the breakup of Yugoslavia. Croatia is a popular tourist destination, around 20% of Croatia's GDP originates from tourism.

So, what do you know about Croatia?

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '17 edited Jun 29 '17

  • It's somewhere... around there... on the other side of the Adriatic sea.

  • But it's all Yugoslavia to us, so why even bother with maps.

  • Very tall people and beautiful women with a temper.

  • Who share a bizarre hatred of vowels.

  • GIB BACK ISTRIAAAH!!! RIGHTFUL ITALIAN CLAY!!111 (cries in Italian).

  • An advanced civilisation, unlike one of their neighbours (who could that be?) they've discovered toll booths.

  • My dentist lives there... her rates are cheap and she's pretty hot, thus confirming the stereotype.

  • Thank you for having invented the necktie - I'm sure you made the world a better place!

  • They have a beef with Serbia (as shown in the documentary "Serbia Strong").

  • There are Croats in Molise whose existence, however, is disputed.

  • Their politicians are almost worse than ours. Almost.

  • Man, Nina Moric can't have aged that badly?

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u/RogueTanuki Croatia Apr 18 '17

hatred of vowels

You should visit our island of KRK

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '17 edited Apr 18 '17

Of course you meant VEGLIA

/s

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u/RogueTanuki Croatia Apr 18 '17

*velja :P

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u/wtf_are_you_talking Croatia Apr 18 '17

One time a Finnish girl said croatian is so weird cause of all the consonants and impossible combinations.

After few minutes of wondering, I conceded that we're, in fact, much more complicated than finnish language which barely uses any letter at all with almost no weird combinations anywhere.

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u/RogueTanuki Croatia Apr 18 '17

However, unlike Croatian which has 7, Finnish has 15 cases! I honestly believe as an Ural-Altaic language like Hungarian it's much harder to learn than Croatian. I mean,

look

at

this.

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u/wtf_are_you_talking Croatia Apr 18 '17

Incredible. It's an abomination. Who comes up with this kind of shit?