What I learn on this website. Thanks. A new bit of Trivia that no one else knows. Now for it to be on Jeopardy so I will know the answer. Maybe the only question I know the answer to. lol Joy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sauter, Vicki L." <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 7:12 PM Subject: RE: [CROATIA-L] Postanak imena Hrvat > And, I found this about Cravat and Croatia.... > cravat Look up cravat at Dictionary.com > 1656, from Fr. cravate, from Cravate "Croatian," from Ger. Krabate, > from Serbo-Croat Hrvat "a Croat," from O.Slav. Churvatinu "Croat," lit. > "mountaineer, highlander," from churva "mountain." Cravats came into > fashion 1650s in imitation of linen scarves worn by Croatian mercenaries > in the French army in the Thirty Years War. > > So, it appears that the origin of the word Croatia comes from the > French. > > Vicki > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Jerin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 7:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [CROATIA-L] Postanak imena Hrvat > > > OK then why do we call Deutchland Germany? > > Robert > > "Sauter, Vicki L." <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah, because Germany is Deutchland! > I think Croatia got corrupted because of our translation of Cravat ... > as I recall that is the origin of Hrvatska-Croatia change. > > Vicki > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Jerin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 4:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [CROATIA-L] Postanak imena Hrvat > > Well why do we call the Deutsch .... Germans! Or why to the Croatians > call Germans Nijemac ? > > Robert > > "Dr. Andrew Nixon" wrote: > Ok, you scholars, how did the word Hrvat become Croatian? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Kurchina [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 4:19 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] Postanak imena Hrvat > > http://www.stjeromecroatian.org/eng/custody3.html > > http://www.stjeromecroatian.org/hrv/custody3b.html > > PRIPOVJEST O BIBLIJI - Drugo izdanje Str:189 > http://www.personal.kent.edu/~knamjesn/knjizara/i.html > > > > > > > > Interested in visting Croatia? Click on the link below to find out about > a wonderful tour of Croatia! > > http://www.kollander-travel.com/ > > > > > Interested in visting Croatia? Click on the link below to find out > about a wonderful tour of Croatia! > > http://www.kollander-travel.com/ > >