Introduction
Although Croatia developed under the impact of many different cultures – Greek, Roman, Celtic, Illyrian, Austrian, Hungarian, Byzantine, Islamic – it gave its own and unique imprint to the history of European civilization. See Prehistoric Archaeology in Croatia. Let us first give a very rough sketch of the main historical periods of the Croatia’s past: the arrival of the Croats to the Balkan peninsula at the beginning of the 7th century, the period of Croatian Princes and Kings of native…