chose a Croatian city

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Goran Šarić and Robocop.

LOOOOOL LOL LOL



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Can anyone explain me why this hostility between croats and Serbs exist?

All is here. Sorry, explanation isn't short.

[Italicus]

Split and Fiume in equal measure. A special shout out to Pola, city of my great grandma.

[zyungh]

Zagreb/Osijek
I prefer 4 seasons and central EU flare

[Mortimer]

Istra and Rijeka are culturally very similar I'm not a fan of western Croatia but people are really accepting and calm.

When I was there I ride a "small vlak/train" it was iconic kinda, really small and cute. I went to the town, to the center of the town, and i noticed everywhere rainbowflaggs, and things in rainbow color which were sold to the public. I thought it is very "lgbtq friendly". Also many waiters, people who work there as anything or something, were not "natives" but either from other parts of croatia or bosnia and i even met workers or cleaning staff, waiters from serbia.

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When I was there I ride a "small vlak/train" it was iconic kinda, really small and cute. I went to the town, to the center of the town, and i noticed everywhere rainbowflaggs, and things in rainbow color which were sold to the public. I thought it is very "lgbtq friendly". Also many waiters, people who work there as anything or something, were not "natives" but either from other parts of croatia or bosnia and i even met workers or cleaning staff, waiters from serbia.

I believe you.

Rijeka:

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Split and Fiume in equal measure. A special shout out to Pola, city of my great grandma.

You should visit Pula to honor your ancestry. And in Istria you have bilingual signs everywhere + everyone speaks Italian.

Pula Arena is more beautiful than one in Rome IMO:

[Vitez]

Split in your list but also Zadar and Pula.
I love Roman architecture and I feel the best mentally when I'm in Dalmatia and Istria.

[Dušan]

Can anyone explain me why this hostility between croats and Serbs exist?

1. Back in Austrian time, Croatian jealosy that Serbs in Croatia got cultural autonomy and were free people without feudal obligations in Military Frontier, unlike Croats who mostly were serfs, especially in Zagreb area. Since the lot of land was empty due to wars with Ottomans, Austria even encouraged Serbs from neighbouring Bosnia to move to Military Frontier, making Croats full of rage.




2. Religious intolerance and hatred of Catholic priesthood in Croatia toward Orthodox people.


These are some of quotes of Croatian bishop Stepinac:

"It is sad, but it seems to be a true folk proverb, neither the sea has end, nor in the Vlach the faith"

"The most ideal thing would be for the Serbs to bow their heads before the "vicar of Christ - holly father". Then we too could finally breathe a sigh of relief in this part of Europe, because Byzantium played a terrible role in the history of this part of the world in relation to the Turks."

"Orthodoxy is the biggest curse of Europe, almost bigger than Protestantism. There is no morality, no principles, no truth, no justice, no honesty"

"The spirit of Byzantism and Slavophilism is something terrible."

In letter to pope in 1941: "I have no doubt, Holy Father, that there is a desperate struggle for life and death between the schism represented in Serbs and the Catholicism represented in Croats"



Now imagine some illiterate Croatian peasant who want to be a good Christian and Catholic, and listen to similar things every Sunday.

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One of the more sensitive issues is the arrival of the Orthodox Serbs in Vlach status in the area of the emerging Military Frontier. It was irrefutably established that they came as Turkish auxiliary troops, and that over time they were bribed and settled by the Croatian and Austrian authorities. Under the name "martolozi" (there are different opinions about the origin of this name) they often had a dubious status - for example, in 1586 the Croatian Parliament made a decision that every martolog captured alive, due to the violence and robberies they committed as Turkish bandits, should be impaled as a terrifying example to others. Over time, this population was drawn into the machinery of the Habsburg empire and used for imperial military purposes.