Nel 2025 ricorre il 1100° anniversario dell’incoronazione del re croato Tomislav e della fondazione del Regno croato

Croatian Kingdom would exist as a sovereign state from 925 to 1102. In 1102 it would enter a personal union with the Kingdom of Hungary with Hungarian Arpad dinasty in charge. In 1527 Croatian nobles elected Ferdinand I Habsburg as the new king. Habsburgs would continue to be monarchs of the Croatian kingdom until 1918 when both Habsburg’s power and the Croatian Kingdom itself would cease to exist.

Since it’s Balkan history and prone to flame wars, I urge everyone to also do some research or quick read on what even a personal union is.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_union)

It didn’t mean that the Kingdom of Croatia “ended” or became absorbed in to the Kingdom of Hungary; the nobility just really tightly inter-wed and so the crown of the two Kingdoms fell to the same monarch, because hereditary laws forbade “splitting” kingdoms between siblings. There is a long and undisputed historical continuity of Croatia and it’s an interesting read (at least from a Hungarian perspective I guess).

wonderful fairy tale. And the picture is so cute 🙂

It looks like his last words were: “Death is but a door. Time is but a window. I’ll be back.”