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Typhoid Sufferers (Serbo-Croatian: Tifusari) is a partisan poem by Croatian writer Jure Kaštelan. The poem depicts hallucinations of typhoid-affected partisans during World War II marching through snow-covered wastelands. It was first published in Kaštelan's 1950 book of poems The Cock on the Roof (Pijetao na krovu).
A Yugoslavian film Ivan Goran Kovačić, was made in 1979, written and directed by Ljubiša Ristić. Croatian actor Rade Šerbedžija portrayed Kovačić. The band Warnament recorded a song titled "Hollow Of The Innocent Victims" inspired by the poem "Jama". Branko Miljković 's poem "Goran" is dedicated to Ivan Goran Kovačić.
Croatian literature refers to literary works attributed to the medieval and modern culture of the Croats, Croatia, and Croatian.Besides the modern language whose shape and orthography were standardized in the late 19th century, it also covers the oldest works produced within the modern borders of Croatia, written in Church Slavonic and Medieval Latin, as well as vernacular works written in ...
The Croatian War of Independence was an armed conflict fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY)—and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and local Serb forces, with the JNA ending its combat operations ...
20,000 [4] –30,000 [10] [11] killed and dying from sickness. The siege of Szigetvár or the Battle of Szigeth (pronunciation: [ˈsiɡɛtvaːr] Hungarian: Szigetvár ostroma; Croatian: Bitka kod Sigeta, Sigetska bitka; Turkish: Zigetvar Kuşatması) was a siege of the fortress of Szigetvár, Kingdom of Hungary, that blocked Sultan Suleiman 's ...
Plorantis Croatiae saecula duo (English: "Two centuries of Croatia in mourning") is a poetical work by Pavao Ritter Vitezović, published in 1703 in Zagreb. As with many of Vitezović's works, it is written in Latin. The unusual structure of the work makes it difficult to classify, being variously described as a poeticized chronicle, [1 ...
The Death of Smail-aga Čengić ( Croatian: Smrt Smail-age Čengića) is an epic poem by Croatian poet Ivan Mažuranić during 1845 and first published in the almanac Iskra for 1846. [1] It is based on the real events of the murder of Bosnian Ottoman army general ( aga) Smail-aga Čengić by Montenegrin vojvoda Novica Cerović in 1840.
Anđelka Martić. Anđelka Martić (1 May 1924 – 11 November 2020) was a Croatian writer and literary translator. [1] [2] [3] She is best known for her children's war prose, especially for her novel Pirgo about a friendship of a boy and an orphan fawn in the whirlwind of the Second World War .