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Territory of Croats came under the controll of Pannonia and Dalmatia of Roman provinces during the 7th century. The country is ruled by the various croatian rulers and these dUKedoms were intermittently controlled by the eastern Roman Empire and the Franks. Eventually Croatia became a strong independent kingdom in 925, and retained its independence until 1102. By the mid-1400s, the Hungarian kingdom was gravely hurt by the Ottoman expansion as much of the mountainous country now known as Bosnia and Herzegovina fell to the Turks. The Battle of Mohács in 1526 led the Croatian Parliament to elect the Habsburgs to the throne of Croatia. Habsburg rule eventually did prove to be successful in thwarting the Ottomans, and by the 18th century, much of the Croatian territories that had previously been occupied were liberated. The odd crescent shape of the Croatian lands remained as a mark, more or less, of the frontier to the Ottoman advance into Europe. Istria, Dalmatia and Dubrovnik all eventually passed to the Habsburg Monarchy between 1797 and 1815. Following World War I, Croatia joined the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. Shortly thereafter, this joint state in turn formed a union with Serbia to form the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (which eventually became Yugoslavia in 1929). Yugoslavia was invaded during World War II and Croatia declared independence and became the Independent State of Croatia. When the Axis powers were defeated, Yugoslavia became a federal socialist state.
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