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Croatia was seething with rebellion, and the sentence of three years in prison for opposition leader Dr. Macek would have sparked an open revolt, were it not for the danger of Fascist Italy's intervention.
Croatia was forced to cede part of Dalmatia, with most of its islands and the Boka Kotorska area, to Italy.
Croatia had been arming since 1990 with the financial aid of émigrés, and thus withstood fighting over a seven-month period, suffering some 10,000 deaths, 30,000 wounded, over 14,000 missing and lost to the Krajina Serbs (and to the Yugoslav army).
The Republic of Croatia is a small country in Europe bordering the Mediterranean, Central Europe and the Balkans.
Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter, fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands.
Croatia is situated between central and eastern Europe and peculiarly shaped.