Croatia Research Paper

Croatia has a wide variety of culture including different scripts, languages, music styles and periods of art. To begin with language, There official language Croatian is also spoken by Croats (another way to say Croatia) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Montenegro Romania and Italy. However, not all of Croatia speaks Croatian; three dialects spoken include Slovakian, Kajkavian and Cakasion. Croatian 8th to 16th century medieval literature was the start of writing and books in Croatia and was written in Latin, Old Slavonic and occasionally the venacular. Poetry was introduced in the 15th century however standards of theme, form and types that characterized Renaissance literature along with Italian literacy developments

There cuisine is many countries cuisines into one, mostly mederitrain food but occasionally they have adopted familiar recipes to Canadians, potato casserole, salads, ect. Agriculture products that they grow include wheat, corn, barely, sugar beet, sunflower, rapeseed, alfalfa, clover, potatoes, cabbage, onion, tomato, peppers, apples, mandarins and olives. These foods can be considered staple foods as they are grown in the country and are eaten with meals on a regular basis but they are adapted from other countries recipes and styles. Croatia is large on grapes for making wine, and making olive oil and shipping it.

Topography is the “lay of the land”, it describes if the location has hills, valleys, bodies of water, highlands, ect. The topography varies in which part of Croatia you are in. There are flat plains along the Hungarian border, low mountains and highlands near the Adriatic coastline. Croatia has been split into three zones, Pannonian and Pre-Pannonian Plains (east and Northwest), the central hills and montains and the Adriatic coast. Out of this land 24% of the land is arable; meaning is it is used for