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Guide to Croatia ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

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Croatia is a country in Central and Southeast Europe bordered by Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Slovenia. The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. The official language is Croatian.

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Counties of Croatia

• Bjelovar-Bilogora
• Brod-Posavina
• Dubrovnik-Neretva
• Istria
• Karlovac
• Koprivnica-Križevci
• Krapina-Zagorje
• Lika-Senj
• Međimurje
• Osijek-Baranja
• Požega-Slavonia
• Primorje-Gorski Kotar
• Sisak-Moslavina
• Split-Dalmatia
• Šibenik-Knin
• Varaždin
• Virovitica-Podravina
• Vukovar-Syrmia
• Zadar
• Zagreb
• City of Zagreb

Regions

• Slavonia is a geographical and historical region in eastern Croatia. It is a lowland bounded, in part, by the Drava river in the north, the Sava river in the south, and the Danube river in the east.

• Dalmatia is a historical region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea and is situated in Croatia. It spreads between the island of Rab in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor, in Montenegro, in the southeast. The hinterland, the Dalmatian Zagora, ranges from fifty kilometers in width in the north to just a few kilometers in the south.

• Istria the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea, located at the head of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Bay of Kvarner. It is shared by three countries: Croatia, Slovenia and Italy.