Epidemiologic monitoring of wild animals is always an important step in defining potential zoonoses that can threaten humans. Particular emphasis should be given to those zoonotic agents permanently ...cycling within wild animal populations and represent a permanent reservoir for other wild or domesticated animals that can be direct sources of disease for humans. In Croatia, there are two European jackal populations: the Dalmatian population (DP) that has been inhabiting the islands and coastal area along the Adriatic Sea since medieval times, and the South East European population (SEEP) that is found in continental Croatia. Research on Trichinella infections in jackal populations in Croatia was conducted from 2008 to 2022. During this 15-year period, we tested 186 jackal samples and confirmed infection in 47 individuals (25.3 %). The dominant species was T. spiralis, identified in 28 samples (60 %), T. britovi was found in 13 samples (28 %), while for six samples (12 %) the PCR test was unsuccessful. In both populations, the Trichinella species of the domestic cycle (T. spiralis) was found, though in varying ratios: in DP the ratio of identified species was 10:6 in favour of T. britovi, as opposed to 22:3 in favour of T. spiralis in SEEP. The frequency of infection with parasites from the genus Trichinella was significantly different in DP (22.9 %) than in SEEP (26.7 %) (p<0.001), while the larval count in analysed tissue did not differ by type of Trichinella species (p=0.1028). Infected jackals were found in nine of ten tested counties. The results were analysed statistically and the origin of tested and positive samples shown on a map of Croatia. Based on these findings, both jackal populations can be considered to represent an exceptionally important indicators of parasites from the genus Trichinella in Croatia, both for the sylvatic and domestic cycles. There is an evident need for epidemiological monitoring for members of both populations.
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Stagnosols are the most widespread soils in the Pannonian region of Croatia. In Croatia they are referred to as Pseudogleys and considered to form primarily by normal (top–down) pedogenesis. However, ...the formation of their non-calcareous loess parent materials probably involved different sources, transports, and depositional environments. We aimed to determine the courses of soil formation and the characteristics of three Stagnosol profiles studied along the mean annual precipitation (MAP) gradient (700–1100mm) in the Pannonian region of Croatia. We found that soil redoximorphic features formed in situ by ongoing pseudogleization. Vertical trends for the clay/silt and coarse/fine silt ratios pointed to top–down pedogenesis. However, high organic C content at the bottom of one soil profile is the result of erosion/sedimentation processes, whereas high clay content in the subsoil of another profile was largely the result of sedimentation in a shallow paleo-lake. Therefore, some Croatian Stagnosols should be considered polygenetic. Each soil profile was classified using the WRB system, and the new WRB-2014 version proved more suitable than the previous one (WRB-2006). However, suggestions for improvements are given. In line with the MAP gradient were several morphological and only two chemical (pH and base saturation) soil characteristics. Organic C content did not correspond to MAP due to variability of forest topsoils. Clay content and CEC did not agree with MAP due to variability of loess parent materials across the Pannonian region of Croatia. The existence of more than one source of loess material (confirmed by the modal analysis) and the differences in depositional paleo-environments resulted in slightly different mechanical compositions of the investigated parent materials. We concluded that both climate and parent material must be regarded as key factors for the formation and characteristics of Stagnosols in the Pannonian region of Croatia (and the wider southwestern Pannonian Basin).
•Most Croatian Stagnosols formed by top–down pedogenesis, but some are polygenetic.•Argic horizon may have as much as 1.2 times more clay than the overlying horizon.•Soil pH and base saturation were affected by precipitation gradient in the region.•Soil clay content and CEC were affected by parent material heterogeneity.•Soil mechanical and mineral compositions indicate more than one source of loess.
This book covers the full story of the Ustasha, a fascist movement in Croatia, from its historic roots to its downfall. The authors address key questions: In what international context did Ustasha ...terrorism grow and develop? How did this movement rise to power, and then exterminate hundreds of thousands of innocents? Who was Ante Pavelić, its leader? Was he a shrewd politician, able to exploit for his independent project Mussolini’s imperial ambitions, Hitler’s pan-German aims, and the anti-Bolshevism of the Holy See and the Western bloc? Or was he, consciously or not, a pawn in other hands, in a complex international scenario where Croatia was only arena among many? And after the movement’s collapse, how were several of the most prominent Ustasha leaders able to evade capture by Tito’s victorious army? The facts and documents confront us with the ambivalence of terrorism.The book places the appearance of the Ustasha movement not only in the context of the interwar Kingdom of Yugoslavia but also in the wider perspective of the emergence of European fascism.
In this novel, written by the esteemed novelist in 1901, a provincial composer and organist from Croatia struggles to find his way along the perilous frontier between the worlds of artistic vocation ...and humdrum family life. The local kapellmeister---a Czech, in good Habsburg tradition, and a confidant of Gaj and Palacky, influential politicians of the time---recognizes young Amadej Zlatanic as a prodigy and persuades the stingy mayor and stubborn parish priest to pack the teenager off to the conservatory in Prague. After several years of sordid student purgatory, Amadej returns to Croatia---ready for love and ready to make great art. The world of Central Europe in the 1860s flows past, and Amadej tries to keep abreast of political change. At the same time he ducks and dodges predatory relatives and townspeople in his native district, to which he has returned for the sake of employment. Despite his marriage to the impressionable and vulnerable local beauty, Adelka, and his devotion to their daughter Veruska, Amadej is sorely troubled by the political corruption and isolation of Croatia. His wife takes ill and his family is poor. Yet ultimately it is the vulgar, populist notion of Croatian "identity"---symbolized by the worship of the tamburica, a local musical instrument---that crushes Amadej's career. As it does so, he contemplates the two worlds of national greatness, amidst the Croatian national awakening, and international fame. Finally, frustrated beyond relief by unsuccessful affairs both amorous and professional, and tortured by the philistinism surrounding him, Amadej leaves the world of sanity for a mind-blowing descent into the maniacal and inescapable world of hallucination, paganism, and paranoia.
The Middle Triassic volcano-sedimentary successions deposited on the passive continental margin during a period of intense extensional tectonics related to the opening of the Neotethys Ocean were ...investigated in NW Croatia. A new palaeogeographic term, the Northwestern Croatian Triassic Rift Basin (NCTRB), is introduced for these successions. Pelagic sediments were deposited on top of older shallow-marine carbonates from the early Illyrian to possibly late Ladinian. Pelagic limestones containing Illyrian ammonites and redeposited benthic foraminifers of the same age indicate the existence of a contemporaneous shallow-marine carbonate environment that supplied material to the deeper parts of the basin. Stratigraphically stacked volcanic and volcanogenic rocks are intercalated with pelagic sedimentary rocks. Submarine basaltic rocks, geochemically characterized as trachy-basalts, are related to deep-rooted faults. Trachy-basaltic hyaloclastites, found intercalated within pelagic limestones, were formed by the quenching of magma that came into contact with cold sea water and subsequent resedimentation of the newly formed basaltic fragments. The majority of volcanogenic deposits belong to the Pietra Verde deposits found higher in the sections. The material for these deposits was produced by explosive volcanic eruptions and deposited by gravitational mechanisms, including pyroclastic density currents. Radiolarians from intercalated radiolarian cherts indicate late Illyrian to early Fassanian age for volcanic activity, as well as episodic eruptions and deposition of pyroclastic material. The uppermost part of the NTCRB successions is characterized by secondary volcaniclastic deposits generated by the rapid reworking of unconsolidated pyroclastic detritus and is deposited as medium- to fine-grained turbidites, marking the gradual filling of the basin. Based on regional correlations, late Ladinian is the most likely age for these deposits, indicating a significant stratigraphic gap in the NTCRB successions.
Egypt in Croatia Tomorad, Mladen
2019, 20191120, 2019-11-20
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At first sight, it seems that ancient Egyptian history and culture have no meaningful ties with present-day Croatia. However, when we scratch beneath the surface of the common idea of Egypt, that of ...a distant and ancient civilisation, we notice that its elements have been present in Croatia ever since antiquity.Egypt in Croatia provides a closer look at many aspects of the presence and fascination of ancient Egyptian culture in Croatia, from antiquity to the present. The topics explored are the artefacts discovered in present-day Croatia (mostly from the early 19th century), Croatian travellers to Egypt from the 16th to the middle of the 20th century, Egyptian collections in Croatia and early collectors from the 1820s until the 1950s, an overview of the development of Egyptology of study within Croatia as well as the various elements of 'Egyptomania' found in Croatia, mostly from the beginning of the 19th century.
Strangers either way Zmegac, Jasna Capo
2007., 20070815, 2007, 2011-07-01, 20070101, Letnik:
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Croatia gained the world's attention during the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. In this context its image has been overshadowed by visions of ethnic conflict and cleansing, war crimes, ...virulent nationalism, and occasionally even emergent regionalism. Instead of the norm, this book offers a diverse insight into Croatia in the 1990s by dealing with one of the consequences of the war: the more or less forcible migration of Croats from Serbia and their settlement in Croatia, their "ethnic homeland." This important study shows that at a time in which Croatia was perceived as a homogenized nation-in-the-making, there were tensions and ruptures within Croatian society caused by newly arrived refugees and displaced persons from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Refugees who, in spite of their common ethnicity with the homeland population, were treated as foreigners; indeed, as unwanted aliens.
