Marin Knezović – CROATIAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION

Interview with Andrej Plenković, Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia

FrontPage / Naslovna, NewsBy Marin Knezović 2. March 2023.

In an exclusive interview for Matica magazine, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia, Andrej Plenković, talks about the importance of Croatia’s entry into the euro area and Schengen, looks at the position of Croats in the European neighborhood and highlights the significantly increased budget funds for strategic projects of the Central State Office for Croats Abroad for the needs of our entire emigrant population, including incentives for repatriation under the I Choose Croatia! scheme.

The Croatian Language Month event begins

Events, FrontPage / NaslovnaBy Marin Knezović 20. February 2023.

It is an occasion for a specific inventory of the most promising contemporary research into the mother tongue of our natives from 12 countries of the European neighbourhood where members of the Croatian autochthonous minority have lived for centuries. There are approximately 500,000 Croatian speakers in that area, many of whom are bilingual.

Family, Culture and Wine Intertwine to Tell the Story of Vincekovo

EventsBy Marin Knezović 2. January 2023.

How privileged am I to collaborate with my father on a story about Croatian winemaking traditions! You may know me as a member of the diaspora in the US and an importer and an educator about the indigenous Croatian wines. You may know Vidoslav Bagur as the preeminent ethnographer of Croatian customs. But, even the…

Josip Novaković from Canada was presented with the Fr Lucijan Kordić DHK award

FrontPage / Naslovna, NewsBy Marin Knezović 21. November 2022.

The award of the Croatian Writers’ Association (DHK), named after the famous poet of Croatian modernism in exile Fr Lucijan Kordić, was presented on November 16 in the hall of the Croatian Writers’ Association in Zagreb to the American-Croatian writer with a current residence in Canada, Josip Novaković, for the collection of storis “Honey in…

Amazing discoveries of the German – Croatian philologist

Events, FrontPage / NaslovnaBy Marin Knezović 7. November 2022.

In the presence of numerous high-ranking guests and leading Croatian connoisseurs of Marulić’s literary works, the lecture was given by the renowned philologist Zvonko Pandžić who has lived at a German address for many decades presenting at the same time his bibliophile edition—the triple “Judith“— figuratively speaking, with a facsimile of Marulić’s original writing of…

The most beautiful girls of Croatian roots at the Cultural fashion show in Tomislavgrad

FrontPage / Naslovna, NewsBy Marin Knezović 22. July 2022.

The 9th traditional clothing fashion show and the selection of the most beautiful Croatian woman in traditional national costume outside the Republic of Croatia, organized by the Stećak Association and co-organized by the Croatian Heritage Foundation, has ended. On July 8 in Tomislavgrad, Drina Jelena Dujmić from Canada, whose mother has Duvno roots, was declared…

The exhibition “From Christmas to Christmas – Folk Devotion of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina”

Events, FrontPage / NaslovnaBy Marin Knezović 24. December 2020.

The exhibition “From Christmas to Christmas – Folk Devotion of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina” by ethnologist and Carmelite dr.sc. co. Zvonko Martić can be viewed on Matica’s website. The exhibition is bilingual, in Croatian and English, and is accompanied by a bilingual catalog.

Interview prof. dr. sc. Vladimir Peter Goss A brief introduction to post-earthquake renewal of Zagreb

Events, FrontPage / NaslovnaBy Marin Knezović 6. May 2020.

Interview by Božo Skoko While recovering from the terrible earthquake and discussing ways of renewal some of the experts see this misfortune as an opportunity. As absurd as it may sound, the catastrophic earthquake of 1880 led to an architectural move wherein Zagreb got the Lenuci Green Hoof, Downtown palaces, the renewed Cathedral with tall,…

Trial and Warning

FrontPage / Naslovna, NewsBy Marin Knezović 7. April 2020.

We all undergo changes, and doubtlessly Croatia will look different after Corona. I sincerely hope that this change will be for the better, and will leave us better organized, that human qualities, unity, relying on local producers, innovation and functionality will be appreciated…, says Božo Skoko professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the…

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