When it comes to Croatia, a small country with an unknown name, many people may not be impressed by this country at all, let alone know a thing or two about the country's history, culture, customs and customs.
However, if you mention the famous piano song "Croatian Rhapsody", then more people know.
In addition to "Croatian Rhapsody", there is also Croatia's football strength, which is also famous all over the world.
The history of Croatia that we want to talk about today is actually related to this famous piano song "Croatian Rhapsody".
1. The Battle for Independence
Maxim, the performer of Croatian Rhapsody, was born in 1975 in a small town called Šibenik off the Adriatic coast of Croatia.
His piano masterpiece uses a seemingly bright musical rhythm to describe the ruins of Croatia's ashes after the baptism of fire, and the tragic picture of the sunset soaked in dust and blood.
The Croatian War of Independence described in the song, born in 1975, was also experienced by Maxim.
After the outbreak of war in 1990, Maxim's music school was forced to attend classes for two years, and Maxim was trapped in the cellar for eight days due to the war.
Therefore, when Maxim played this must-play piece at every concert, the passionate emotional expression in the music profoundly expressed his full love and infinite attachment to the Croatian nation through Maxim's heartfelt plucking from his fingers to his heart.
Croatia is a country located in southeastern Europe, and after World War I, it became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia along with Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Slovenia and other countries.
After World War II, it became part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
In May 1988, with the death of Yugoslav leader Tito, the curtain was drawn on the internal division of Yugoslavia.
In the 1990s, with the first referendum held in Croatia, calls for independent autonomy grew louder.
Since then, armed clashes have begun between Croatian and Yugoslav Federal Forces.
This is also the special historical background for the birth of the piano song "Croatian Rhapsody".
The war, which lasted for several years, eventually caused tens of thousands of casualties in the Croatian and Yugoslav Federal Army.
In December 1995, the two sides signed the Dayton Accords, and Croatia officially became independent from Yugoslavia.
2. Beautiful President
After independence, Croatia is backed by Eurasia, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the west, and across the sea from Italy.
What's more, Croatia also has 1,778 kilometers of coastline in the Adriatic Sea, with more than 1,000 islands and 8 national parks.
This long coastline, this picturesque ocean landscape, made Croatia quickly become a famous scenic tourist destination in the Mediterranean region.
However, in the 21st century, in the six years since President Josipović came to power, the ruling philosophy and governing line of the middle-left alliance have put Croatia's social reform and economic development in a long-term downturn.
The stagnant economic development has left Croatia's unemployment rate high, which has directly led to the disillusionment of Josipović.
In 2015, opposition candidates, then 46-year-old Linda Grabar Kitarović, were thrust before the Croatian public.
Born in 1968 in rural Rijeka, Croatia, Linda Grappal Kitarović came from a grassroots family.
Her father was a local butcher, and in addition to attending school, Kitarović's daily job was to go to the cowshed with her mother to milk cows, help her mother repair lawns for others, and do all kinds of farm work within her ability.
However, this kind of agricultural work and housework while studying did not delay Kitarovich's path to learning and growing into a talent.
When he was in high school, Kitarovich, who had excellent grades, went to a boarding school in New Mexico as an exchange student.
Kitarovich, who studied in high school in a foreign country, studied very hard.
Her lively and cheerful personality, confident and optimistic smile have gained countless concerns and friendships from her classmates for herself.
After graduating from high school, Kitarović, who studied at the University of Zagreb, graduated with a master's degree in international relations and a double bachelor's degree in English and Spanish, and later studied at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna.
Kitarović, who completed his studies and entered the workplace, has a wealth of work experience and experience.
She has served as a visiting scholar at major universities such as the University of Washington, a research institute at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and an advisor to the Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology in 1992.
After this, Kitarović began to officially embark on the road to politics.
In 1993, she became an adviser to the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was later promoted to Minister for Foreign Affairs of Croatia.
From February 2005 to January 2008, Kitarović was Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Croatia.
In March 2008, she was appointed Croatian ambassador to the United States.
Faced with such a difficult technical job as specializing in foreign affairs, Kitarović, who has many years of rich work experience, can be described as a leader.
First of all, her white and beautiful face, her long flowing hair, and her charming and confident smile were just like the bright moonlight in the deep blue night sky.
Everywhere it shines, it is a piece of water-like tenderness and dazzling brilliance, which makes people feel like a spring breeze and a bathing winter sun, which undoubtedly adds countless points to Croatia when dealing with various international affairs.
Secondly, Kitarović is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian and many other Chinese.
This is between the various countries in Europe, and she has dealt with the political leaders of various countries, which is really like a fish in the water, left and right.
Finally, the rich work experience and life experience accumulated by more than a decade of diplomatic work, as well as the vast network resources that others cannot have, have enabled Kitarović to deal with a variety of complicated and difficult foreign relations and foreign affairs.
In 2015, Kitarović participated in the Croatian presidential elections for the first time as a presidential candidate.
At the beginning of the new year in January, the Croatian media used "a narrow victory" to evaluate the thrilling presidential election.
Kitarović narrowly won the presidential election with 50.4% of the vote, becoming the first female president of Croatia.
Her opponent, Josipovich, received 49.5 percent of the vote.
The support of the two among the voters is between the two of them.
After the election, then-President Josipović admitted defeat and congratulated Kitarović.
3. Tourist attractions
After his successful election as President of Croatia, Kitarović was deeply aware that Croatia is located in the southeast of Central Europe.
Such a geographical location dooms Croatia to have no choice but to further integrate into Europe in order to get the country out of the predicament of economic downturn and bring greater development and take-off to the entire Croatian economy.
Since then, Kitarović has been actively working to put Croatia on the fast track of integration with Europe.
Today, Croatia, taking advantage of its unique geographical location that occupies most of the Adriatic coastline, has vigorously developed the maritime transport and shipbuilding industries.
Its advanced and developed shipbuilding industry directly occupies 16.8% of the European market share, ranking second in Europe and ninth in the world, which is not an ordinary strength.
In addition, With nearly 2,000 kilometers of stunning coastline in the Adriatic Sea, Croatia, with more than 1,000 islands and 8 national parks, is a traveler's paradise.
Here, you can enjoy the delicious Sipan wine with its own natural beauty, unique towns, long and beautiful beaches, and lush trees everywhere, facing the bright sunshine and cool sea breeze.
Here, every place will immerse you in it and linger.
Of course, you enjoy the delicious scenery and Croatia gets a great economic return.
According to statistics, Croatia's tourism industry has now reached a peak of 10 billion euros per year, accounting for 20% of the country's GDP.
Of course, in addition to the world-famous tourism industry, Croatian football is also famous.
Since 1998, Croatia qualified for the World Cup for the first time, and it has achieved a shocking third place result, which is really a hit and a blockbuster.
On July 8, 2018, Croatia defeated Russia 6:5 in the World Cup quarter-final penalty shootout.
This time in the host Russia Sochi to participate in the game, heard that the Croatian team broke into the quarterfinals, excited Kitarović, but also directly put down the work at hand, took the economy class to fly to Russia, to cheer up their own team.
But seeing the beautiful president, she was wearing a Croatian jersey and watching the game with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
What surprised the Croatian players even more was that after the game, the elated Kitarovic also ran directly into the dressing room and hugged the sweaty players warmly.
With such a people-friendly president who loves his country and the Croatian people, the players of the Croatian team, who is not sweating and fighting the field?
4. Former President
In addition, the beautiful Croatian president also has a good relationship with the mainland.
In 2015, at the beginning of Kitarović's tenure, on the afternoon of October 15, she came to China for a state visit to the mainland.
Kitarović made it clear that in the past 10 years since the establishment of the comprehensive cooperative partnership between Croatia and China, bilateral exchanges and cooperation in various fields have developed smoothly.
Croatia has always supported and actively participated in the cooperation between Ceoche and Eastern European countries and China, supported the development of EU-China relations, and is willing to continue to be the gateway for Chinese enterprises to enter the European market and a reliable partner of China in the EU.
Kitarović also said that the Croatian side warmly welcomes Chinese enterprises to increase investment in Croatia, carry out interconnection construction and innovation cooperation, and is willing to provide convenience for this.
Today, Croatia has become a medium-developed country with a per capita GDP of 15,000 US dollars.
Regrettably, on the evening of 5 January 2020, the Croatian National Electoral Commission announced the results of the second round of voting for the presidential elections, and former Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic was elected as the new President.
According to data released by the National Election Commission, Milanovich, who ran on behalf of center-left parties such as the Social Democrats, received 52.7% of the vote.
The current president, Kitarović, received 47.3 percent of the vote, and Kitarovich failed to continue as president.
However, as the first and youngest female president since Croatia's independence, Kitarović, who is optimistic, confident, approachable, beautiful and talented, has left a deep and beautiful impression on the people of Croatia and the world.
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