Croatia is in Eastern Europe on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. See if you can find it on a globe.

4,300,000 people live in Croatia. The capital of Croatia is Zagreb and our missionaries Jura and Aleksandra Lazar live an hour north in Varaždin.

The necktie is an Croatian invention. A tie is called cravat in Croatian. The first ties were worn by Croatian soldiers in the 17th century during the Thirty Years' War in Europe.

One of the most famous Croatians is the inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943). He made many inventions for producing and transmitting electric power and owned more than 270 patents.

The blue in Croatia’s flag is for freedom, the white is for peace, and the red is for revolution. The shield in the center represents different places and parts of history of Croatia.

Above you can see the size of Croatia compared to the size of Oklahoma in the United States.

Croatia is truly beautiful and many people like to take vacations there, especially Europeans. Look at the beauty God created there!

Croatians speak Croatian! They sell a lot of equipment, machinery, fabric, chemicals, food, and fuel to other countries, but very little of it comes to the United States.

Dinaric Alps Biševo’s Modra špilja (blue cave)

Sea cave in PulaDubrovnik

Croatia has over 1,000 islands, but only 50 of them have people living on them.

At least 10% of the land in Croatia is made up of 8 national parks, 11 nature parks and two nature reserves.

The money in Croatia is called the Kuna.

Plitvice Lakes National Park

Spy Gear

The first system for identification of fingerprints was developed by Croatian Ivan Vučetić (1858-1925).

Dalmatians came from Croatia and the rare Eurasian lynx can be found there. The average lynx weighs about 40 lbs, the same as an average five-year-old.

1. Fritule are fritters like donut holes.2. Pašticada is a stewed beef dish cooked in special sauce.3. Sarma is a stuffed cabbage or grape leaf.4. Crni rižot is black risotto with cuttlefish or squid.

1. Fritule 2. Pašticada

3. Sarma 4. Crni Rižot

Your Spy Message

in English:

Jesus loves you!

In Croatian:

Isus te voli!

(Ee-sus tay voh-lee)

A note from Special Agent Jamie:

Dalmatia, the region in Croatia

where dalmatian dogs come

from, was part of the Roman

Empire and was mentioned in

the Bible as a place Titus went

to in 2 Timothy 4:10.

Cut some holes for your eyes in the back of a magazine. You can

watch people without being watched.