page_title: Croats (military unit)
section_title: Equipment and uniform
hierarchical_section_title: Croats (military unit) / Equipment and uniform
caption_attribution_description: Hrvatski: Dan kravate 2012.
context_page_description: The Croats or Crabats were 17th-century light cavalry forces comparable to the hussars.
  The Croats were initially irregular units loosely organized in bands. The first regular Croat regiment was established in 1625.
  The most notable engagement of the Croats was their participation on the side of the Catholic League in the Thirty Years' War.
  At the height of the Thirty Years' War, as many as 20,000 Croatian cavalry was in the service of the Imperial Army, including the majority of Wallenstein's Harquebusiers.
  The name came to be used as a generic term for light cavalry from the area of the Habsburg Military Frontier rather than an ethnic designation, and besides Croats also included
  Hungarians, Serbs, Wallachians, Poles, Cossacks, Albanians and Tatars.
context_section_description: The Croats wore hats made of fur and long red cloaks. Their primary arms were carbines. Besides carbine the Croat arms included two pistols. The Croats wore scarves around their necks, probably for hygienic purposes. During the Thirty Years' War the Croats came in contact with French who were impressed by their outfit and soon adopted the scarf, naming it after the Croats (French: cravate) which evolved into the modern-day cravat and
  necktie. The Cravat Regiment is a guard of honour established in 2010 in Zagreb, Croatia, which wears uniforms that are replicas of those worn by the Croats.
caption: The Cravat Regiment in Zagreb (2012 photograph)
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