The counties are primary territorial subdivisions of the Republic of Croatia. In Croatian they are called županije in plural and županija in singular form. The President of Croatia is the head of state. ... Stjepan Stipe Mesić (born December 24, 1934) has been the President of the Republic of Croatia since 2000. ... The parliament of Croatia is called Hrvatski Sabor in Croatian - the word sabor means an assembly, a gathering, a congress. ... List of prime ministers/premiers in the Croatian Government Prime Minister is officially called President of the Government (Croatian: Predsjednik Vlade). ... Ivo Sanader [] (born June 8, 1953 in Split) is the current Prime Thief of Croatia (President of the Government). ... This article lists political parties in Croatia. ... Elections in Croatia gives information on election and election results in Croatia. ... The fourth presidential elections in Croatia took place in two rounds in January 2005. ... Elections for the Croatian Parliament were held on November 23, 2003. ... Next elections for the Croatian Parliament are due to be held in November 2007[1]. ^ Prime minister announcing election Categories: | | | | ... // Croatian foreign policy has focused on greater Euro-Atlantic integration, mainly entering the European Union and NATO. In order to gain access to European and trans-Atlantic institutions, it has had to undo many negative effects of the breakup of Yugoslavia and the war that ensued, and improve and maintain... This article treats the accession of Croatia to the European Union. ... Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... A county is generally a sub-unit of regional self-government within a sovereign jurisdiction. ...

There is a total of 21 counties in the country.

History

The counties were introduced in the 1990 Constitution of Croatia, and only slightly changed up to present. Current Constitution of the Republic of Croatia was adopted by the Parliament of the Republic of Croatia on December 22, 1990. ...

Previously, in socialist Yugoslavia, the Croatian Republic was divided into općine (sing. općina) which were smaller than the present counties. The designation općina has been retained for municipalities which are one level smaller than the županije and also smaller than the old općine. Capital Belgrade Language(s) Serbo-Croatian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Macedonian Government Socialist republic President  - 1945 - 1953 Ivan Ribar  - 1991 Stjepan Mesić Prime Minister  - 1945 - 1963 Josip Broz Tito  - 1989 - 1991 Ante Marković Historical era Cold War  - Proclamation November 29, 1943  - UN membership October 24, 1945  - Constitution February 21, 1974  - Secessions... OpÅ¡tina, Cyrillic општина, may refer to;      Slavic terms for country subdivisions gmina guberniya krai kraj obshchina opÅ¡tina općina oblast oblast okres okrug okrÄ™g pogost powiat raion selsoviet uyezd voivodeship volost Historical terms in italics Categories: | | | ... A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly referring to a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. ...

The political representatives elected for county government used to form a Chamber of Counties (Županijski dom) in the Croatian Parliament, between 1993 and 2001. The parliament of Croatia is called Hrvatski Sabor in Croatian - the word sabor means an assembly, a gathering, a congress. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Organization

Each county has an assembly (županijska skupština) which is composed of representatives elected by popular vote, using party-list proportional representation, for four-year terms. The county assembly elects the executive county leadership, decides on the yearly budget, the county properties etc. ζōA legislator is a person who writes and passes laws, especially someone who is a member of a legislature. ... Party-list proportional representation systems are a family of voting systems used in multiple-winner elections (e. ... Budget generally refers to a list of all planned expenses and revenues. ...

The leader of a county is a župan (sometimes translated as "prefect"), who has one or two deputies each called a dožupan. The župan presides over the county's executive government (županijsko poglavarstvo), and represents the county in external affairs. A prefect (from the Latin praefectus, perfect participle of praeficere: make in front, i. ...

List of counties

The list of counties, grouped into historic and geographic larger regions:

Image File history File links Size of this preview: 613 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (2201 × 2151 pixel, file size: 93 KB, MIME type: image/png) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Counties of Croatia ... Coat of arms Zagreb county - Zagrebačka županija is a county in central Croatia. ... Coat of arms Krapina-Zagorje county - Krapinsko-zagorska županija is a county in northern Croatia. ... Sisak-Moslavina county - Sisačko-moslavačka županija is a county in central Croatia. ... Karlovac county - Karlovačka županija is a county in central Croatia, with the administrative center in Karlovac. ... Coat of arms The Varaždin county of Croatia - Varaždinska županija is a county in northern Croatia, near the border with Slovenia and Hungary. ... Koprivnica-Križevci county - Koprivničko-križevačka županija is a county in northern Croatia. ... Coat of arms Bjelovar-Bilogora county - Bjelovarsko-bilogorska županija is a county in central Croatia. ... Medjimurje (Međimurska županija, Muraköz in Hungarian) is a triangle-shaped county in the northernmost part of Croatia. ... Zagreb (pronounced ) is the capital and the largest city of Croatia. ... Map of Istria Istria (Croatian and Slovenian: Istra, Italian: Istria) is the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. ... Primorje-Gorski Kotar county - Primorsko-goranska županija is a county in western Croatia that includes the Bay of Kvarner and the surrounding Northern Croatian seacoast, and the mountainous region of Gorski Kotar. ... Lika-Senj county - Ličko-senjska županija is a county in Croatia that includes the Lika region and some northern coastline of the Adriatic near the town of Senj, including the northern part of the Pag island. ... Istria county (Croatian: Istarska županija; Italian: Regione istriana) is the westernmost county of Croatia which includes the biggest part of the Istrian peninsula (2820 out of 3160 km²). Area is called Istra in Croatian and Slovenian, and Istria in Italian. ... Coat of arms Slavonia (Croatian: Slavonija) is a geographical and historical region in eastern Croatia. ... Virovitica-Podravina county - Virovitičko-podravska županija is a northern Slavonian county in Croatia. ... Image:Zupanija pozeska grb. ... Brod-Posavina county - Brodsko-posavska županija is the southern Slavonian county in Croatia. ... Vukovar-Syrmia county - Vukovarsko-srijemska županija is the easternmost Croatian county. ... Dalmatia, highlighted, on a map of Croatia. ... Zadar county - Zadarska županija is a county in Croatia, it encompasses northern Dalmatia and southeastern Lika. ... Å ibenik-Knin county - Å ibensko-kninska županija is a county in Croatia, located in north-central Dalmatia. ... Split-Dalmatia County (Splitsko-dalmatinska županija) is the central-southern Dalmatian county in Croatia. ... Dubrovnik-Neretva county - Dubrovačko-neretvanska županija is the southernmost Croatian and Dalmatian county. ...

Naming

The suffixes -čka, -ska in the original names indicate adjective, and so the full original name of each of them is $name županija, so e.g. Karlovačka's full name is Karlovačka županija. Some counties also prefer to swap the order of those two words but they are in the minority (since February 7, 1997 when the order was officially changed). February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Zagreb itself is grad, a city, due to its importance it's separated from its county and given similar jurisdiction. Look up city, City in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

See also

• Etymology of županija