About non existent Kingdom of Croatia In order to get a good understanding of the Croatian history here are very good references showing clearly that Kingdom of Croatia existed only 16 years and namely from 1075 1091 Kings Bishops Nobles and Burghers in Medieval Hungary by Erik Fugedi Janos M Bak Erik Feugedi Published 1986 by Variorum Reprints The Realm of St Stephen A History of Medieval Hungary 895 1526 By Pal Engel Published 2005 by I B Tauris Nobility land and service in medieval Hungary by Martyn Rady Published 2000 by Palgrave Macmillan A History of Hungary s Nationalities By Ernst Flachbarth Published 1944 by Society of the Hungarian Quarterly p 708 Hungary in the late fifteenth century a map showing Wallachia Hungary and Turkey and Ragusa no clue about Kingdom of Croatia The Medieval World By Peter Linehan Janet Laughland Nelson p 80 Figure 5 1 Map of medieval Hungary showing areas of Cuman settlement times of King Bela V 1235 1270 no clue about Kingdom of Croatia More interesting TAB The Early Medieval Balkans a critical survey from the sixth to the late twelfth century by John Van Antwerp Fine Published 1991 by University of Michigan Press Page 248 Sources on Medieval Croatia Early medieval Croatian history fits the concluding line to the old jingle the more you study the less you know When I was and undergraduate studying Balkan history I thought I knew quite a bit about Croatia but as I study more about Croatia one by one facts that I knew before turn out to be dubious based on questionable sources or no sources at all Most of the existing literature in western languages on medieval Croatia is extremely poor and frequently it is marred by nationalistic bias Much of the information about medieval Croatian history comes from later seveneenth and eigteenth century narrative histories These were written by enthusiastic people but ciontain a mixture of fact and legend and since many of the documents they based their works on are now lost it is extremely difficult to judge wheter their information came from reliable source or not The Realm of St Stephen A History of Medieval Hungary 895 1526 by P l Engel 2005 I B Tauris edition Translated by Tamas Palosfalvi Pages 33 34 One of Ladislaus s most significant achievements was the occupation of Hungary s southern neighbour Croatia The small kngdom born in the tenth century streched from the Kapela mountains to the Adriatic sea its center being Biograd located on the coast King Demetrius Zvonimir who not being a member of the ruling dynasty obtained his throne throug election asked Pope Gregory VII fo a crown in 1075 and in return declared his kingdom as a papal fief After his death Ladislaus laid claim on his realm by the right of his sister Zvonimir s widow and had no difficulty in taking possession of Croatia in 1091 He bestowed the new kingdom together with royal title on his nephew Almos son of Geza I I further entertained myself reading yet another great discoveries of contemporary Croatian historians soc culture yugoslavia The exclusive revelation is the result of scientific research by Croatian historian Dragutin Pavlicevic and found its place in history books The Split newspaper Feral Tribune reveals that Pavlicevic authored a chapter entitled Croatian Indians included in the second grade history textbook shedding new light on the history of native Americans and their ties with Croats one of the oldest nations in Europe He affirms that in North Carolina a tribe has been living for more than 4 centuries differing in the color of skin hair and facial features from other tribes According to the same historian this is not surprising because the members of these tribe have the noble blood of ancient Croats from Dubrovnik in their veins Mr Pavlicevic also speaks about the Mateo Indians named after their ancestor Mateo a Croat named Mate In his work Dragutin Pavlicevic stresses that he estimates that presently there are more than 2 million Croatian descendants throughout the United States states the Split newspaper and this one form soc culture europe Croats Sailed To New World Before Columbus And Vikings Andrija Zeljko Lovric bases his theory on recent archeological finds of Islamic coins and Glagolitic writings in Paraguay A theory that Croatian sailors in the service of the Moorish caliphs probably reached the coasts of the Americas not only before Columbus but also before the Vikings themselves may be corroborated by exceptiona