In the beginning of the 1990s Croatia consisted of 78 % percent Croatians, mainly Roman-Catholics, while the Serbian minority made up 12 % of the population, with mainly Orhodox-Christians (Encarta Encyclopedia). ... In 823 Croatia was invaded and made part of the empire of Charlemagne. ... Centuries later, this line of division coinided with the border of the Habsburgian double-monarchy Austria-Hungary and the declining Byzantine Empire. ... One part shares the common Western European history starting with feudalism, while the other was heavily inlfluenced by the developments in the Ottoman...

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