The village is inhabited mostly Catholic Croats.

The first inhabitants of this village were Hungarians and after Catholic Croats.

The Serbs killed 5,000 people here, mostly Roman Catholic Croats, during the three-month siege of the city.

Catholic Croats constitute 19 per cent of the population.

Bosnian Catholic Croats tattoo their hands and other visible parts of body with Christian symbols (usually with a small cross), like brow, cheeks, wrist, or below neck.

Being a Catholic Croat only made things worse.

Despite Pavelić's assurances of equality with the predominantly Catholic Croats, many Muslims quickly became dissatisfied with Ustaše rule.

The Muslim Slavs and Roman Catholic Croats, who make up about 61 percent of the republic's population, generally favor independence.

"I had a very good friend, a Catholic Croat," the elder Mr. Lolic recalled.

Leaving the region in a quickening flow are Catholic Croats and Hungarians, as well as many Eastern Orthodox Serbs.