Complex sentence: Most Croats lived under Hungarian kings until 1526 and under Habsburg monarchs thereafter; the Croats of Bosnia and Hercegovina and Slavonia lived under Ottoman rule for several hundred years; and the Croats of Dalmatia passed from Hungarian to Venetian to Austrian rule.
Split into simpler sentences: Most Croats lived under Hungarian kings until 1526 and under Habsburg monarchs thereafter. The Croats of Bosnia and Hercegovina and Slavonia lived under Ottoman rule for several hundred years, and the Croats of Dalmatia passed from Hungarian to Venetian to Austrian rule.