Krabat

Battle of Sisak, 1593 Hans Rudolf Miller, 17th century Nádasdy Ferenc Múzeum 🇭🇺 ( 📷 varlexikon.hu/sarvar )

Emperor’s Window (detail) St. Sebaldus Church, Nuremberg, Bavaria 🇩🇪 Veit Hirschvogel, based on drafts by Albrecht Dürer, 1514. (Bavarian Baudenkmal)

"He died faithfully to the religion and the ruler he had served, to whom he fearlessly dedicated not only his entire life, but also his very death."

Epitaph of Franjo Kruta (of Albanian origin), commander of Croatian cavalry units (Croati a cavallo), in the Church of St. Francis in Zadar 🇭🇷, from 1693: Here lies the head of Francis Crutte, Commander of the Croatian cavalry, and one of the men in the service of the Most…

This image depicts where he conducted his raids in the 1664 winter campaign, penetrating 240 km deep into Ottoman territory! Notice the burnt bridge at Osijek. This was a strategically important 8km long oak bridge. "With the help of God, we burned the whole structure to dust."

Nikola Zrinski, Champion of Christendom

He is of the Croatian Lapčani clan (vonLappitz), from the Una region. Their COA is a black eagle on a silver field. His 🇭🇷 origin is also shown in his nickname-Krabat. Part of the 1st wave of foreign nobles who settled in 🇦🇹 hereditary lands for royal service, in late 15th c

Effigy of a Croatian noble Andrä Khrabat von Lappitz (Andrej Kuželj of Lapić, 1435 - 1506) from the church of st. Stephen in Amstetten. Served Frederick III and Maximilian I as his councillor, Imperial Captain of Ybbs, Marshal of Vienna and "regent of Austria". Thread 1/?

The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, before whom kneel Croatian count Christoph Frankopan and his wife, Apollonia Lang von Wellenburg, from the breviary (prayer book) they published in Venice in 1518.

🇭🇷 Trobojnica (Ivanković, 1887) Pomorski muzej Crne Gore 🇲🇪, Kotor

🇭🇷 Tristibus aucta Fides Faith strengthened by hardships

Jedrenjak bark Grad Karlovac Vatroslav Arčanin / Kraljevica, 1867. g. (Pomorski i povijesni muzej Hrvatskog primorja Rijeka)

"Nekoć je ime Dalmacija imalo šire značenje: smatralo se daje to jedna provincija zajedno s Hrvatskom." (Verum tamen Dalmatia dicebatur olim largius, censebatur enim cum Chrouatia una prouintia) Historia Salonitana, trogirski kodeks, 14. stoljeće

Croatian cavalryman, Croatian general (Thirty Years' War, 1618–1648)

Croat (Croatian Serezans, “Rotmäntel”) 1796, Johann Caspar Lavater — ONB🇦🇹

Poljičica (🇭🇷 ćirilica) u crkvenim maticama Splita, Trnbusa i Vranjica. U ovim primjerima u rasponu od 16. do 19. st. Prva je posebna jer ima grb župe sv. Mihovila, Kostanje, ali i grb posljednjeg split. nadbiskupa sa titulom Primasa Dalmacije i cijele Hrvatske, Lelija Ćipika.

In June 1827 the vicar of the Diocese of Kotor sends a letter to Dalmatian bishoprics asking for more priests because Kotor "Diocese always had too few priests and it still regrets some settlements converted to Orthodoxy" ("...di qualche contrada alle parti de' Greci sicmatici").

Croates 🇭🇷🇨🇵⚔️

Croatian Pandurs, 1742 (R. Knötel, 1908)