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Month: March 2021

Croatian Glagolitic Script

Croatian Glagolitic Script

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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Croatian Cyrillic Script

Croatian Cyrillic Script

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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Croatian Glagolitic fonts

Croatian Glagolitic fonts

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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The Beginnings of Croatian Sports

The Beginnings of Croatian Sports

The earliest known description of a sporting event in Croatia is from the 16th century. It reffered to the 1593 regatta of seventy four (yes, 74) wooden fishing boats called falkusa, from the harbour of the town of Komiza on the island of Vis to the islet of Palagruza. It was the oldest known boat race in Europe. Falkusa is autochthonous Croatian boat of 9m of length, with the mast of equal size, in use from 11th or 12th century…

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Boxing and Martial Arts

Boxing and Martial Arts

We should remember also Fritzie Zivic (originally Zivchich, 1913-1984), known as The Croat Comet, famous welterweight boxer in the USA, who had 230 professional matches. In 1940 he won the title of the champion of the world having defeated “unbeatable” Henry Armstrong. Their rematch held in Madison Square Garden in 1941, where Fritzie managed to defend his title, was visited by 23,190 people (and 5,000 fans were reportedly denied access). This remains all-time highest Garden record for attendance. In 1993…

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Swimming

Swimming

Veljko Rogosic was named International Long Distance Swimming Federation World Champion four times between 1971 and 1974. He was the first one to have swam the distance of 200 km without interruption. From the town of Grado near Trieste in Italy to Riccone near Ancona he set the world record of 225 km in long distance swimming (during this swim he lost 16 kg). In 1992 this outstanding sportsman entered the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, Florida, USA. He…

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Diving

Diving

Kristijan Curavic set a new world record in diving under ice (2004). He reached a depth of more than 50 meters under ice (1.4 m thick) in Lake Djupvatnet (1100 m above sea level) in the Northeastern part of Norway, wearing only a mask, wetsuit and monofin. In 2005 he improved his own record reaching an amazing depth of 51.2 m in 1.32 min., at the temperature of air of -22 degrees C, and water temperature of -3 degrees C,…

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Sailing

Sailing

Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic won silver medal at the 2008 Finn European Championship held in La Marina di Scarlino, Maremma, Tuscany, Italy, in 2008. In 2009 he won gold medal in the Finn class at the 41st Semaine Olympique Française in Hyeres. Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic, Split, Croatia. Photo by Robert Deaves, International Finn Association. His very nice boat on the photois easily recognizable by red and silver squares from the Croatian Coat of Arms. Sime Fantela and Igor Marenic were Men’s…

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Rowing

Rowing

The Rowing Club Neptun (Veslacki klub Neptun) in Dubrovnik was founded in 1923.In the school year 1890/1891 the Dubrovnik Grammar School introduced rowing as an optional subject within the gymnastics programme and a ten-oar boat was used for pupils. Since 2000 the International Semper Primus Regatta of Student Eights’(the name is derived from a Latin proverb: Semper primus, simper melior – Always the first, always the best). Source Welcome to Dubrovnik, 2009, no 18, p 27. Croatian eight-man boat (on…

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Water polo

Water polo

Here is an excerpt from a lovely description of the 2001 triumph of the water polo club Jug from the famous Dubrovnik, winning the European Champions League, taken from www.waterpolo.com: Elvis Leads JUG To “FINAL FOUR” TitleDubrovnic, Croatia, May 19- Water polo is a national obsession in this beautiful Dalmatian coast port city, but it had been twenty years since Jug, the local club, had won the European Champions league. For the six thousand lucky souls who got tickets to…

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