State · 1991 – present
Croatia
A state of 1991 – present — 35 years, still standing in Europe. It replaced Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia, Socialist Republic of Croatia and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The atlas records 43 things within it — wars and battles 18 · unrest and atrocity 9 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 2 · treaties 3 · people 10. Its line of rulers holds 11 people, 8 with dated terms.
- Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 35 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 11
- the President of Croatia
- Most ground
- 52,200 km²
- in 1996
- Within it
- 43
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 3
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Socialist Republic of Croatia · replaces
- Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia · replaces · 1995 – 1998
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia · replaces
Rulers
The line of President of Croatia - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franjo Tuđman | 1990 – 1999 | 9 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Ivo Sanader | 1995 – 1996 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Vlatko Pavletić | 1999 – 2000 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Zlatko Tomčić | 2000 – 2000 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Stjepan Mesić | 2000 – 2010 | 10 years | ending not on record | |
| Ivo Josipović | 2010 – 2015 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović | 2015 – 2020 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Zoran Milanović | 2020 – in office | in office since 2020 | still in office |
11 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 1990 – 2020. Only 30 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 7 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.94, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Heads of government
The line of Prime Minister of Croatia, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Stjepan Mesić | 1990 – 1990 |
| Josip Manolić | 1990 – 1991 |
| Franjo Gregurić | 1991 – 1992 |
| Hrvoje Šarinić | 1992 – 1993 |
| Nikica Valentić | 1993 – 1995 |
| Zlatko Mateša | 1995 – 2000 |
| Ivica Račan | 2000 – 2003 |
| Ivo Sanader | 2003 – 2009 |
| Jadranka Kosor | 2009 – 2011 |
| Zoran Milanović | 2011 – 2016 |
| Andrej Plenković | 2016 – … |
| Tihomir Orešković | 2016 – 2016 |
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
52,200 km² in 1996, 52,200 km² in 2021; at its largest 52,200 km² in 1996. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
coat of arms, from 1990Coat of arms of Croatia · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Croatia_(white_chequy).svg.png)
flag, 1990 – 1990Flag of Croatia (white chequy) · Public domain 
flag, from 1990Flag of Croatia · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 199940 rows · 18 wars and battles · 9 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović · ruler · 1968 – present
- Zoran Milanović · ruler · 1966 – present
- Stjepan Mesić · ruler · 1934 – present
- Ivo Josipović · ruler · 1957 – present
- Croatian War of Independence · war · 1991 – 1995
- Ivo Sanader · ruler · 1953 – present
- Battle of Vukovar · battle · 1991
- Operation Storm · battle · 1995
and 32 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20993 rows
- 2020 Zagreb earthquake · disaster · 2020
- 2020 Petrinja earthquake · disaster · 2020
- COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia · plague · 2020
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood35 years
stood longer than 28% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held52,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 35% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century1.0
had more wars on record per century than 94% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record11
has more rulers on record than 83% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 12 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1981 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1996, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q224 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.