00:00How did Croatia's territory change over time?
00:02Croatia's history begins around 10th century, when the Croats formed their first kingdom.
00:07This early state controlled much of today's Croatia and parts of neighboring regions.
00:11In 1102, Croatia entered a dynastic union with Hungary,
00:15retaining its institutions but tying its fate to a larger crown.
00:18Over the following centuries, Ottoman expansion reshaped the map.
00:22Large inland areas were lost, while the coast fragmented under Venetian control.
00:27The decline of Venice and the retreat of Ottomans in the 18th and 19th centuries
00:32allowed Croatian lands to be gradually reassembled under Habsburg rule.
00:36After World War I, Croatia became a part of Yugoslavia,
00:39losing independent borders but gaining internal unity over time.
00:42The breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s brought war,
00:46and by the mid-1990s, Croatia had reasserted control over most of its internationally recognized territory.
00:52And in 1998, they got the last of their eastern territory back.
00:57And since then, the country has remained the same.
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