Croatian History

In the history of Croatian people three scripts were in use: Croatian Glagolitic Script, Croatian Cyrillic Script (bosancica), Latin Script. Today the Croats are using exclusively the Latin Script. The Arabica was also in use among the Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina. It was in fact the Arabic script used for the Croatian language and it constitutes the so-called Adjami or Aljamiado literature, similarly as in SpainF. Its first sources in Croatia go back to the 15th century. One of the oldest…

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The tradition of the Croatian Cyrillic Script goes back to the 12th century and lasted continuously until the 18th century, with sporadic uses even in the 20th century. Of course, there are incomparably more Croatian Glagolitic monuments than Cyrillic, not to speak about tremendous Croatian literature in the Latin Script since the 15th century. However, it is the fact that the Croatian Cyrillic represents an important cultural heritage. This Script was in use among the Croats in Dalmatia (especially in…

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1. TeX fonts The author of these lines has created a set of TeX and METAFONT files, containg 367 symbols, described in [PDF]: Croatian Glagolitic (round, angular, Baska Tablet, quickscript, about 60 ligatures, Baromic broken ligatures, calligraphic letters) Croatian Cyrillic stechak ornaments Croatian interlace patterns The file croatian.tar.gz should be gunzip-ed, then use “tar xvf croatian.tar”, which will automatically create a subdirectory /croatian/. This package is also on the following sites: CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network), or at University of…

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