The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, although it took four years of sporadic but often bitter fighting to expel Yugoslav forces. CIA’s World Factbook is a public resource providing basic intelligence on 258 world entities, including country profiles and one-page factsheets. Le

Algeria, located in North Africa, is the largest country on the continent and the tenth largest in the world. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, Tunisia, Libya, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Western Sahara, and Morocco. CIA’s World Factbook is a public resource providing basic intelligence on 265 world entities, including country profiles and one-page factsheets. Learn more. https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/algeria/ #FactbookFriday #WorldFactbook #Algeria | Central Intelligence

The Maya civilization flourished in Guatemala and surrounding regions during the first millennium A.D. After almost three centuries as a Spanish colony, Guatemala won its independence in 1821. During the second half of the 20th century, it experienced a variety of military and civilian governments, as well as a 36-year guerrilla war that finally ended in 1996. CIA’s World Factbook is a public resource providing basic information on 258 world entities, including country profiles and one-page fact