ABSTRACT
The origin of the name “Croat” has been also disputable. According to Constantine VH Flavius Porphyrogenitus (905–959), Byzantine emperor from 913 to 959, “Croats” in the Slav tongue meant “those who posses much territory.” The origin of the name “Croat” has been also disputable. According to Constantine VH Flavius Porphyrogenitus, Byzantine emperor from 913 to 959, “Croats” in the Slav tongue meant “those who posses much territory”. Croatia remained linked to Hungary, but the arrival of the Turks and an expanding Ottoman Empire put it under pressure. Many fled in the face of the Turkish advances in the sixteenth century. In 1797, during the Napoleonic wars, Croatia became an Illyrian province and was reintegrated into the Habsburg Empire after the defeat of France. There are some 14 areas with different histories in recent centuries grouped in three complex regions of Istria (in the north-western part of Adriatic coast), Dalmatia (covering the rest of the Croatian coast) and Slavonia.
