Zadar

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic accepted the resignation of Defence Minister Damir Krsticevic on Friday after a Croatian Air Force training plane crashed at Biljane Donje near the coastal city of Zadar, killing two airmen.

Jure Zubcic, a 29-year-old city councillor from Zadar, has become known for taking direct action against anti-Serb graffiti - altering it from "kill a Serb" to "kiss a Serb".

Even though someone filed a criminal complaint against him, he believes that his actions have had a positive impact.

Like much of Croatia, and in particular other parts of Dalmatia, the city's population of 75,000 is deeply Catholic and generally socially conservative; in a 2013 referendum, 75 per cent of those who voted in Zadar County backed a move to enshrine in the constitution the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman, though the majority of eligible voters did not vote at all.

The hugely popular travel guide has listed Novi Sad in Serbia and Zadar in Croatia among its ‘top ten cities’ worth seeing in 2019.

In Croatia's undersea waters near the island of Pag, divers from the Croatian Diving Tourism Organisation have discovered the wreck of a Roman ship and its cargo, including about 600 amphoras, the Croatian Chamber of Economy reported on Wednesday.

Denis Romac, vice-president of the Croatian Journalists' Association, told BIRN that the attack on journalist Hrvoje Bajlo on Sunday evening in Zadar was a consequence of state institutions not reacting properly to a recent alleged threat to another reporter by a government minister.

China will become co-owner of Croatia's Zadar seaport and is interested in Rijeka too as a way to bring its goods to Europe, a Croatian official said on Thursday.

Croatian pupils have expressed their mixed feelings about Europe, the Balkans and their own identity, in research recently published in a Croatian scientific journal Revija za sociologiju [Review for Sociology].

The local news site 057 reports that parts of the coastal city of Zadar in Croatia are under water, after heavy rain fell in the space of only two hours on Monday morning - the worst single rainfall since 1986, meteorologists said.

Clashes between supporters of Bulgarian football team Levski and Croatia's Hajduk erupted in the Croatian coastal city of Zadar on Wednesday night, the Bulgarian foreign ministry confirmed on Thursday.