You must understand

It was an old Personal Union or something.

Hervat means "border guard" "someone who fights feircly"

Herat means to skin off and Vard - Vart -Vat means "guard"

Kewl

Originally croatia was a province in modern day Lika

Then the mercinaries came and settled in with the indeginous people, the dalmatinci-slovenes

With the ottoman empire spreading, they had to retreat to "slavonia" which is a falesly translated version of the dialectical "slovenijeh"

Remember that latin pronounciation thing"

Well the latins had a hard time pronouncing "slo"

Yes, I do.

Hrvat (Croat)

see?

Hrvatska, Croatia.

Hrovat or hungarian Horvath

The -ska- suffix means "land of"

Land of the Croats

Or full name "-ska dežela"

-ish land

Originally it was a frontline right?

Hence border guard

hervat

Right.

I mean the smallest nations have the most history

you look at macedonia

Ehhhhhh.

Macedonia was brave enough to keep the old name

I personally think the Macedons were rightfully Greeks.

We had to change ours 3 times in history

I believe the macedon high class was greek

The people were veneti

Props to them for keeping their name, though.

I mean you can still technically rule them

The slavs nowadays are used to that

But the people were something else

I mean I'm from the north right

Roight.

That was a whole different roman province

Called Noricum

Or norik

Ah, I’ve heard it it.