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noun

Croatia n. A Slavic-speaking country on the Adriatic, part of the Balkan region. It was formerly part of Yugoslavia.

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... derided if she has a child within a year after marriage. In some districts sex morality is very high, in others very low. In Carinthia it is worst. There, in the Gurkthal, the illegitimate births are twice as numerous as the legitimate, so that the marriage institution hardly exists. In Slavonic Croatia persons who marry are indifferent to each other's previous conduct with others. Amongst other southern Slavs, at a wedding, the groom must neither talk nor eat, out of shame, and the bride must weep while being dressed. It is reported from Bocca di Cattaro, in the Balkan peninsula, that public contempt ...

— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner

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— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

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Words linked to "Croatia" : Balkan Peninsula, Hrvatska, Croatian, Croat, Ragusa, European country, Zagreb, Dubrovnik