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| Zagreb
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| parliamentary democracy
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| 56,542 sq km
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| Population
| 4,493,312 (July 2007 est.)
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| Croatian 96%, other 4% (including [[Serbian], [Italian]], Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German)
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| Roman Catholic 87.8%, Orthodox 4.4%, Muslim 1.3%, other Christian 0.4%, others and unknown 6.1%
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Sailing is a good way to see the coastal islands and networks of small archipelagos. Most charters leave from Split or the surrounding area on the North or the South circuit, each offering its own pros and cons. A good way is to book a package with a company at home, but many Croatian companies also offer both bareboat and crewed charters:
- Adriatic-YachtCharter - Plavetnilo [8] - boat charter and number of charter related services. Operating in bases throughout Croatian coast.
- Blue Magic Yachting [9] offering bareboat and crewed yacht charter in Croatia. Sailing boat charters, motor yachts charter, luxury megayachts and gulet charter in Croatia.
- Croatia24's Yacht Center [10]
- Croatia Blue Yacht Charter [11] - Unique holiday experience cruising the Adriatic internationally acclaimed Sunseeker yachts
- Croatia Yachting [12] - offers bareboat and crewed yacht charter in Croatia. Wide range of sailing charters, motor yacht charter, luxury megayachts and gulets cruising in Croatia.
- Dalmacija.net - Croatia Yacht Charter [13] - Unique sailing experience. Moorings and Waypoint Partner. Offering bareboat and skippered sailing boats, motor boats in Dubrovnik, Split, Trogir, Zadar, Pula, Rovinj - Croatia - Adriatic Sea
- Generalturist Sailing [14] - Find the yacht you need, with or without skipper. Bénéteau sailboats and Marx motorboats.
- Gulet Croatia [15], one of the leading providers of Gulet charters, cruising and sailing holidays in Croatia.
- Master Charter [16] - gulet, sailing boat, motor boat, catamaran and luxury yacht charter offering good prices and customer service.
- Navis Yacht Charter [17] - Croatia registered company offering selection of sailing yachts, catamarans and motor boats and luxury yachts.
- Sundance Yacht Charter [18]
- Waypoint [19] offers bareboat yacht charter in Croatia.
- Windward Islands [20], one of the worlds largest yacht charter companies, can take care of all charter requirements, from bareboat to crewed in Croatia. Operating from 8 international offices (USA, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Caribbean, Monaco).
- Yacht Charter Croatia [21] - Croatian charter company that offers megayachts, motor yachts, sailing boats, cruising vessels (Gulets) - bareboat or crewed - on a very good website on over 10 languages and details for each and every yacht in the offer. You can also find yachting tips and yachting guide on their page.
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Croatian cuisine is quite diverse so it is hard to say which meal would be "typically Croatian". In the eastern continental regions (Slavonija and Baranja) spicy sausages kulen and kulenova seka is a must-try. Cobanac ('shepherd's stew') is a mixture of several different kinds of meat with a lot of red spicy paprika. In Hrvatsko Zagorje and Central Croatia pasta filled with cheese called štrukli is a famous delicacy (it is said that the best štrukli in Croatia are served in the Esplanade Hotel restaurant in Zagreb), as is purica s mlincima (baked turkey with a special kind of pastry). Sir i vrhnje (sour cream with cottage cheese) can be bought fresh on the Zagreb main market Dolac. Croats love a bit of oil and you will find plenty of it in piroška. In mountainous regions of Lika and Gorski kotar meals made of mushrooms, wild berries and wild meat are very popular. One of typical dishes in Lika is police (oven-baked potatoes covered with bacon) and several kinds of cheese (smoked cheese and škripavac).
Coastal region is well known for truffle delicacies and soup maneštra od bobic (Istria), Dalmatian pršut and paški sir (Pag-island cheese). Dishes made of fresh fish and other products of the sea (calamari, octopus, crabs, scampi) shouldn't be given a miss!
Croatian cuisine has yet to come up with a Croatian fast food representative. The market is dominated by globally ubiquitous hamburgers and pizzas but you will also find "burek" and "cevapcici" imported from the medieval Ottoman empire which stretched from Turkey to neighbouring Bosnia. The latter two dishes are widely popular in the entire South and Eastern Europe. Burek is a type of cheese-pastry whereas cevapcici are seasoned minced meat shaped in finger-size portions served in bread and often covered with onions. Although definitely not a fast meal (takes several hours to prepare) also foreign in origin is the so-called sarma or sauerkraut rolls filled with minced meat and rice.
Desserts: What it lacks in the fast food department Croatia makes up with a myriad of desserts. Probably the most famous is its delicious creamy cake called kremšnite but different kinds of gibanica, štrudla and pita (similar to strudel and pie) such as orehnjaca (walnut), makovnjaca (poppy) or bucnica (pumpkin and cheese) are also highly recommended. Dubrovacka torta od skorupa is delicious but hard to find. Paprenjaci (pepper cookies) are said to reflect the Croatian tumultuous history because they combine the harshness of the war periods (pepper) with the natural beauties (honey). They can be bought in most souvenir shops though fresh-made are always a better choice. Rapska torta (The Rab island cake) is made with almonds and locally famous cherry liker Maraschino. It should be noted that this is hardly an exhaustive list and even a casual glimpse in any Croatian cookbook is likely to be worth the effort.
Chocolate candy "Bajadera" is available throughout shops in the country and along with "Griotte" is one of the most famous products of the Croatian chocolate industry.
Unavoidable ingredient in many meals prepared in Croatia is "Vegeta". It is a spice produced by "Podravka".
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