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What has Croatia gifted to the world?
I stole this question somewhere else, but after I elaborated an answer I felt entitled to do so.
1. The curiosity of Slavs on the Mediterranean. (Yes, there are a few other small places, but by and large it is limited to Croatia).
2. Probably the most historically stable ally of the Germans. The Croats are the only neighbours we have never been at war with. (There was once a confrontation with the Franks, but that was over 1000 years ago).
3. If we allow ourselves to simplistically equate Croatia with the somewhat larger Illyria, we could say: a free Germania. For when Germania, occupied by the Romans as far as the Elbe river, rose up under Arminius, the Romans were unable to send the planned reinforcements because they were urgently needed in the event of a simultaneous and prolonged serious uprising of the Illyrians. Who knows how that would have turned out otherwise, and whether the German (and English) language would still exist at all?
4. A particularly pretty huge limestone landscape on the Mediterranean, with clear water and beautiful colours. But the Croats pay a high price for this, because the karst landscape on land, where water disappears everywhere, is an agricultural nightmare.
5. For its size, the country is topographically and climatically almost uniquely varied.
6. The only genetically sequenced Neanderthals in Europe so far (from the Vindija Cave).
7. Presumably the western European hunter-gatherer (WHG), who, according to current knowledge, started out on the eastern and northern Adriatic and spread from about 14,000 BC over the whole of western and central Europe - genetically replacing the Magdalenien GoyetQ-2-like pre-population - and constituted the exclusive population there (here) until about 7,000 years ago (simplified).
8. The (ethnic) Serb Nikola Tesla, who made many great inventions.
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Originally Posted by Feiichy
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