Such a position is certain to be rejected in the months ahead by leaders of the Croatian republic.

Three times this week, Croatian officials say, the army fired on troops of the Croatian republic.

Those ties came up earlier this year, when Hungary was found to have been shipping arms to the breakaway Croatian republic.

Such an exodus would quash the last opportunity to rebuild the multi-ethnic fabric that characterized the Croatian republic before the war.

The son wants to know what is new back home in Split, in the battle-torn Croatian republic of Yugoslavia.

Zagreb, the capital of the secessionist Croatian republic, was mostly quiet after a night of terrifying ground clashes and attacks by the federal air force.

Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia had own vehicle registration plates.

It called for the recognition of Muslim, Croatian and Serbian republics within a loose Bosnian government.

The last two months have been marked by increasingly fierce clashes between Croats and the Serb minority who live in the Croatian republic.

The flag was adopted by the short-lived Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia in the early 1990s.