Croatian checkerboard
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkɹoʊˈeɪ.ʃən ˈtʃɛkɚbɔːd/
Noun
Croatian checkerboard (uncountable)
- (rare) Red and white chequy used in Croatian coat of arms and flag.
- Synonyms: Croatian chequy, Croatian chessboard
- 2003, Paul Hockenos, Homeland Calling: Exile Patriotism & the Balkan Wars
- In July 1992, with fierce fighting under way across Bosnia, the HDZ hard-liners called to life the parastate they dubbed Herzeg-Bosna, a renegade Croat enclave in West Herzegovina that flew the Croatian checkerboard flag, did business with ...
- 2011, Branko Belan, In the Name of Independence: The Unmaking of Tito's Yugoslavia
- If one is to think that Croatia would not fight back once it was in a position to be able to do so is completely absurd. Even worse is Plotz's assessment that Tudjman resurrected Ustasa symbols, such as the Croatian checkerboard flag.
- 2012, Daniel Šuber, Slobodan Karamanic , Retracing Images: Visual Culture after Yugoslavia
- Liberation Struggle with the Croatian checkerboard coat-of- arms and inscriptions dedicated to the Croatian nation.
- 2013, Michael Dobbs, Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire
- The chetniks had done their best to stir up anti-Croat ... Across the cornfields, in the predominantly Croat settlement of Borovo Naselje, people had hung out the Croatian checkerboard.