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Croatia [ˌkɹoʊˈeɪʃə] (help·info) (Croatian: Hrvatska IPA: [xř̩.ʋaː.ʦkaː]), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska listen (help·info)), is a southern Central European country at the crossroads between the Pannonian Plain and the Mediterrane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia

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