About nonexistent 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  years and namely from    Kings Bishops Nobles and Burghers in Medieval Hungary by Erik Fugedi Janos M Bak Erik Feugedi Published  by Variorum Reprints   The Realm of St Stephen A History of Medieval Hungary  By Pal Engel Published  by IBTauris   Nobility land and service in medieval Hungary by Martyn Rady Published  by Palgrave Macmillan   A History of Hungarys Nationalities By Ernst Flachbarth Published  by Society of the Hungarian Quarterly  p  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  Figure  Map of medieval Hungary showing areas of Cuman settlement times of King Bela V     no clue about Kingdom of Croatia  More interesting      The Early Medieval Balkans a critical survey from the sixth to the late twelfth century by John Van Antwerp Fine  Published  by University of Michigan Press  Page   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 eigteenthcentury 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  by Pl Engel   IBTauris edition Translated by Tamas Palosfalvi  Pages   One of Ladislauss most significant achievements was the occupation of Hungarys 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  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 Zvonimirs widow and had no difficulty in taking possession of Croatia in  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 soccultureyugoslavia   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  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  million Croatian descendants throughout the United States states the Split newspaper  and this one form soccultureeurope  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 exceptional findings On