Our country city school and school library Kristina

Our country, city, school and school library Kristina Šprem, Tea Lazić, Mirna Sabol, Sara Čulo, Magdalena Magdić, Lucija Kos, Dorothy Šimotić, Tena Slobodnjak, Ema Zeman, Helena Lujić and Marinela Varga – 6. b and 6. c grade School librarian Dejana Kurtović Teacher Karolina Šteković-Junković

Croatia is a country in the southern Europe

CROATIA • Croatia is a medium • • -size European country. Its position is both central European and Mediterranean, as well as Pannonian-Adriatic. The 45 th parallel of the northern latitude runs through Croatia, wich means that Croatia is half way to the North Pole and the Equator.

CROATIA • Its constitutional tradition dates back to the mediaeval duchy (8 th century). • Republic of Croatia is proclaimed on 25 th of June 1991. It is our Statehood Day. • Croatia is defined as a unitary and indivisible democratic and social state.

CROATIAN NATIONAL FLAG • Croatian National flag is a red-white-blue tricolor with the • • historic Croatian chequered coat of arms (25 red and white fields) and stylized crown with five smaller shields featuring coats of arms. The red-white chequered coat of arms on a shield has been the symbol of Croatian statehood ever since the early times. The beginnings of the coat of arms date back to the 11 th century – from the period of the Croatian kings.

CROATIAN ANTHEM • The Croatian anthem Lijepa naša (Our Beautiful Homeland) is written in 1835. (Antun Mihanović ) and set to music in 1846. (Josip Runjanin). http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=tjqg. LZ 7 f ZY 4&feature=related

Croatian kuna • The official Croatian currency is Croatian kuna – HRK (1 HRK = 100 Lipa). • Croatia has a population of 4, 7 miliona people.

• The capital is Zagreb. • Zagreb is also the biggest city (1, 5 million of people). It borders with Serbia, Hungary, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Monontenegro and with Italy and Slovenia on the sea (930 km).

Croatian islands • Croatia has a many islands • • • (around 1000) and beach (Jadranko more – Adriatic sea). The Adriatic sea is a small and relatively shallow sea. Croatia has 33000 km of the Adriatic. There are 718 offshore islands, 389 rocks and 78 reefs. The biggest islands are Krk, Cres, Brač and Hvar. The island of Korčula, Krk,

Temperature • Much of Croatia exhibits • • • moderate continental climate, while mountain climate is found in higher mountains (Velebit, …). Islands have the Mediterranean climate. The mean temperature in January ranges mostly from 0°C to -2°C in the continetal part, while in the islands have a temperature from 2°C to 9°C. Temperature in July in the continental part of Croatia is 22°C.

Regions in Croatia • The versatile climate • • • under the variety of vegetation. It’s divided into the Pannonian part of Croatia, Gorski kotar-Lika (Region of mountains) and region of Hrvatsko primorje (Croatian coastal part). Around 36% of the total area is forested. The highest mounts are Dinara, Kamešnica, Biokovo and Velebit, and the biggest rivers are Sava, Drava, Danube and Krka.

Croatian spa • Croatia has several mineral springs (Jamnička Kiselica, Lipik, …) and even more thermal mineral springs, most of them found in the region of Hrvatsko Zagorje (Tuheljske, …), in northern Croatia (Lipik, Daruvar, …) , and those in the littoral belt (Split, …). • All these spas are now health resorts.

Ethnic structure of the Croatian • The ethinc structure of • • the population of the Republic of Croatia exhibits both high and stable homogeneity. The majority are Croats (78%). Other populations include ethnic groups: Serb (14%), Muslim, Slovenian, Italian, Czech, Slovakian, Albanian, Gypsy, etc.

Croatian diocese • The majority of the population • • of the Republic of Croatia are Roman Catholic (76, 6%), while other religions account for 12, 3% (other Christian sects, Muslim, atheist, …). Today the Catholic church in the area of the Republic of Croatia is territorially divided into 12 (arch)bishoprics forming three metropolitan provinces. The Bjelovarsko-Krizevacka metropolitan is the youngest (arch)bishopric.

Tourism in Croatia • Tourism in Croatia has a tradition of over 150 years. • Its begginnings are linked with health resorts and tourism (Daruvar 1818. ) • The region of Hrvatsko Primorje is the most developed tourist region accounting for as many as 93% of the income from tourism.

National holidays of Republic Croatia are • 1 st of January (New Year’s • 15 th of August (the • • • Day) 6 th of January (Epiphani) Easter and Easter Monday 1 st of May (Labour Day) 22 nd of June (Day of Antifascist Victory) 25 th of June (Statehood Day) 5 th of August (Homeland Thanks giving Day) • • • Assumption) 8 th of October (Independence Day) 1 st of Novembar (All Saint Day) 25 th and 26 th of December (Christmas holidays)

Souvenirs of Republic Croatia • Regarding the souvenirs, some of the regions have • their specific offer, often of a highquality craftsmanship (Šestine’s umbrellas, ’’penkala’’ pens, proteceted models and casts of works of art) or artistitc lever (lacework-Hvar, . . . ). Supreme quality wines can also be bought.

The Croatian language • The Croatian language is the standard and offical language in the • • Republic of Croatia as well as the language of the Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is spoken by around 5, 5 million people on a more or less compact area of Croatia, western Vojvodina, parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Boka Kotorska, as well as by 1, 5 to 2 million Croats worldwide: the Croatian enclaves in Austria (region Burgenland), Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Italy (region Molise), diaspora in western Europe, in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zeland, South America and South Africa. The Croatian language is divided into three dialects: the kajkavian (spoken in north-western Croatia), chakavian (spoken in south-western Croatia) and štokavian (spoken east of the above mentioned two dialects). The present standard and literacy language is based on the new štokavian dialects of the jekavian speech variant and written in Latin script. The Baška Tablet is one of the eariliest monuments written in the Croatian language (AD 1100).

Bjelovar is one of the major Croatian cities

BJELOVAR OUR SCHOOL

BJELOVAR • A town in the Lonja-Ilova basin, in the southern • • piedmont part of Bilogora, 80 km east of Zagreb. Has a population of 45 thousands. Cultural, administrative and business centre of the Bilogora region. Major industries food processing (milling industry, meat products, alcoholic drinks, dairy products, biscuits), building contracting and metal processing. Bjelovar is located on the main road.

BJELOVAR • Remains of the cultures • • from the Late Iron Age onwards. First mentioned in 1420 as a market-town. On the map by Stjepan Glavač (1673. ) the town was called Belovac. In 1756, the construction of a military settlement started, which gradually got features of an artisan and merchant town. Bjelovar was granted the status of a free royal town in 1874.

BJELOVAR’S BUILDINGS • The main square is a successfully • • • conceived urban whole, typical for Military-Border towns. It features the baroque church (cathedral) St. Theresa, built from 1765. to 1772. , with school in the former Piarist college buildings on both sides. The church has four stone altars from 1889. (I. Franz, D. Morak). The confessionals were made by J. Rogina. The Orthodox church of the Holy Spirit was built from 1792. to 1795. Its belfry was finished in 1833. The iconostasis and mural paintings are works by C. Medović, B. ČikošSesija, I. Tišov and J. Hohnjec.

BJELOVAR’S BUILDINGS • The main square also • • comprises the army barracks “Preradović” with a series of arcades on the groundfloor. The classicist-style library building was built in the 19 th century and the grammar school building was finished in 1901. according to S. Smočinski’s design. The “Sokolski Dom” was erected in 1912.

BJELOVAR’S BUILDINGS • The Town Museum keeps • • archaeological and ethnographic holdings, as well as a number of exhibits from cultural history. The museum gallery displays the works by contemporary painters and sculptors related to Bjelovar. Among cultural and historical monuments, built according to physical plans, the most interesting are the Town Museum building, the parish church of St. Theresa with the Historic Archives and the “Preradović” barracks.

INTERESTING EVENTS IN BJELOVAR • Bjelovar Livestock Exhibition • • • (in September) is the main annual event in the town. Sports grounds as well as the surrounding forests (Bilogora) provide various sports and recreational opportunities. The forests are rich in game. There is an abundance of fish in the Česma and Plavnice rivers, as well as in the fishponds Siščani, Narta, …

INTERESTING EVENTS IN BJELOVAR AND BILOGORA • Doku. Art film festival • Udaraljški festival • • • (International Percussion Ensemble Week) Terezijana (Celebration of coming the queen Theresa to town Bjelovar in 18 th century). It is cultural and touristic spectacle in July. Europski tjedan (European week) 8 -30 km from Bjelovar are Museum and ethno-village Veliko Trojstvo, mountain lodge Kamenitovac on Bilogora, Šandrovac (weekend resort with bathing facilities), Narta fishpond, Đurđevac (naive art gallery), …

OUR SCHOOL

4 TH PRIMARY SCHOOL BJELOVAR AND ITS SCHOOL LIBRARY

ŠKOLA • 4 th primary school Bjelovar is open on 7 th September 1973. • It is ECO SCHOOL and SCHOOL WITHOUT VIOLENCE. • It has got wonderful environment. • School has 818 students and 60 teachers, 1 pedagogue, 1 social worker, 1 school librarian, 1 psychologist, 1 defectologist, 4 school cooks, 6 cleaning woman and 2 housekeeper (school masters). This is our school eco logo

OUR SCHOOL LIBRARY

• In our library has over 8 000 books, 500 audiovisual materials and over 35 magazines. • In our school library there is a reading room where we can spend our leisure time reading books, playing didactic games, watching educational films, working on the computer, writing homework, etc.

Our school librarian and our small school librarians

• Power. Point presentation was made by Kristina Šprem, Tea Lazić, Mirna Sabol, Sara Čulo, Magdalena Magdić, Lucija Kos, Dorothy Šimotić, Tena Slobodnjak, Ema Zeman, Helena Lujić and Marinela Varga. • Oversaw the presentation, transformed and rewrote by the school librarian Dejana Kurtović, with minor changes. • The lector is the teacher Karolina Šteković-Junković.

Students of 6. grade, school librarian and teacher Karolina ŠtekovićJunković

Students of 2. c grade and teacher Irma Rogulja

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