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  • ...the word "cravat" comes from the French cravate, and many sources state that this is a corruption of "Croat" — Croatian "Hrvat"?
  • ...that Croatian vernacular names of marine algae are the most numerous within Europe, their richness being subequal to the maximal one for Japanese algae in the rest of the world?
  • ...that the Dalmatian comes from a Dalmatia, a region of Croatia?
  • ...that the Republic of Dubrovnik was first to recognize independence of the USA and first country in Europe to end slavery??