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Croatia
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Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a sovereign state between Central Europe, Southeast Europe, and the Mediterranean. Its capital city is Zagreb, which one of the countrys primary subdivisions. Croatia covers 56,594 square kilometres and has diverse, mostly continental, Croatias Adriatic Sea coast contains more than a thousand islands. The countrys population is 4.28 million, most of whom are Croats, the Croats arrived in the area of present-day Croatia during the early part of the 7th century AD. They organised the state into two duchies by the 9th century, tomislav became the first king by 925, elevating Croatia to the status of a kingdom. The Kingdom of Croatia retained its sovereignty for nearly two centuries, reaching its peak during the rule of Kings Petar Krešimir IV and Dmitar Zvonimir, Croatia entered a personal union with Hungary in 1102. In 1527, faced with Ottoman conquest, the Croatian Parliament elected Ferdinand I of the House of Habsburg to the Croatian throne. In 1918, after World War I, Croatia was included in the unrecognized State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs which seceded from Austria-Hungary, a fascist Croatian puppet state backed by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany existed during World War II. After the war, Croatia became a member and a federal constituent of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. On 25 June 1991 Croatia declared independence, which came wholly into effect on 8 October of the same year, the Croatian War of Independence was fought successfully during the four years following the declaration. A unitary state, Croatia is a republic governed under a parliamentary system, the International Monetary Fund classified Croatia as an emerging and developing economy, and the World Bank identified it as a high-income economy. Croatia is a member of the European Union, United Nations, the Council of Europe, NATO, the World Trade Organization, the service sector dominates Croatias economy, followed by the industrial sector and agriculture. Tourism is a significant source of revenue during the summer, with Croatia ranked the 18th most popular tourist destination in the world, the state controls a part of the economy, with substantial government expenditure. The European Union is Croatias most important trading partner, since 2000, the Croatian government constantly invests in infrastructure, especially transport routes and facilities along the Pan-European corridors. Internal sources produce a significant portion of energy in Croatia, the rest is imported, the origin of the name is uncertain, but is thought to be a Gothic or Indo-Aryan term assigned to a Slavic tribe. The oldest preserved record of the Croatian ethnonym *xъrvatъ is of variable stem, the first attestation of the Latin term is attributed to a charter of Duke Trpimir from the year 852. The original is lost, and just a 1568 copy is preserved—leading to doubts over the authenticity of the claim, the oldest preserved stone inscription is the 9th-century Branimir Inscription, where Duke Branimir is styled as Dux Cruatorvm. The inscription is not believed to be dated accurately, but is likely to be from during the period of 879–892, the area known as Croatia today was inhabited throughout the prehistoric period
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Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Croatia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 22 times since making its debut at the 1993 contest. Between 1993 and 2011, the Croatian entrant was selected at the Dora pop festival, Croatias best result in the contest is fourth-place finishes in 1996 and 1999. Croatia first reached the top ten in 1995, when Magazin & Lidija Horvat-Dunjko finished sixth and this would be the first of six top ten results in seven years. Maja Blagdan was fourth in 1996, Danijela Martinović was fifth in 1998, Doris Dragović was fourth in 1999, Goran Karan was ninth in 2000, since then, Croatia has failed to reach the top ten. Since the introduction of the round in 2004, Croatia has failed to reach the final on five occasions. Croatia then withdrew from the contest in 2014 and 2015, on its return in 2016, Croatia reached the final for the first time in seven years. Croatia participated at Eurovision ten times as part of Yugoslavia, in 1963,1968,1969,1971,1972,1986,1987,1988,1989 and 1990. Apart from being the most successful Yugoslav republic in the contest, it gave the socialist republic its only win, Rock Me, sung by Riva in 1989, the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 was held in Zagreb as a result. After the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1991, the Croatian national public broadcaster Croatian Radiotelevision had organised a festival to select a Croatian representative for the 1992 Contest. If HRT had been a member of the EBU in time for the contest, Croatias first entry as an independent state was in 1993 with the band Put, performing Dont Ever Cry which was, despite the English title, also partially performed in Croatian. The song came third in the Qualification for Millstreet, which allowed their participation in the 1993 contest, Croatias best position, as of 2016, has been with Maja Blagdans 1996 entry Sveta ljubav and Doris Dragovićs 1999 entry Marija Magdalena. Along with Malta and Cyprus and Portugal, Croatia was never relegated in the 1990s, the last time Croatia qualified for the grand final was in 2009. However, on 5 May 2015, HRT announced that it wont broadcast the 2015 contest and it was the first time since 1992 for HRT to not broadcast the contest. On 26 November 2015, it was announced that Croatia would return to the contest in 2016, nina Kraljić with the song Lighthouse qualified to the final, making it that Croatia qualified for the first time since 2009. After the successful return in 2016, Croatian national broadcaster Croatian Radiotelevision confirmed on 17 September 2016 that they would participate in 2017. Yugoslavian entries in 1963,1968,1969,1971,1972,1986,1987,1988,1989 and 1990 are Croatian entries that competed for Yugoslavia, ^ Spain originally gave its 12 points to Israel and 10 to Norway. After the broadcast it was announced that Spanish broadcaster wrongly tallied the votes and Germany should have got the top mark -12 points - instead of being snubbed, the mistake was corrected and so Germany was placed 7th over Norway. ^ In 2009, Croatia qualified through the back-up jury selection, if a country had won the previous year, they did not have to compete in the semi-finals the following year
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Croatian Radiotelevision
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Croatian Radiotelevision is a Croatian public broadcasting company. It operates several radio and television channels, over a domestic transmitter network as well as satellite, Croatian Radiotelevision has three organizational units, three sister companies - the Croatian Radio, the Croatian Television and Music Production. Croatian Radiotelevision is the successor of the Radio station Zagreb that started broadcasting on 15 May 1926 under its first director and co-founder. During the first 14 years of its existence the Zagreb Radio station was owned by a private corporation, Radio Zagreb was nationalized on 1 May 1940. During the Independent State of Croatia, the station was known as Hrvatski krugoval, after World War II it began to operate as a state-owned radio station. Zagreb Radio station was the first public broadcasting facility in the southeast European area, at the end of the first year of operation, Radio Zagreb company had a little over four thousand subscribers. On the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Zagreb Radio station, on 15 May 1956, for the next two years this was the only TV broadcasting service in the southeast European area. This was the first TV station in Yugoslavia and would become a color station in 1972. In June 1990, the Croatian Parliament renamed the company from Radiotelevizija Zagreb to Hrvatska radiotelevizija, on 1 January 1993, HRT was admitted as a full active member of the European Broadcasting Union. The television channels were aired under the name Croatian Television, Hrvatska televizija between 1990 and 1993, since then, the current name is used. The radio broadcast unit is referred to as Croatian Radio, Hrvatski radio, HRT1 - HRTs first TV channel, previously known as TVZ1. This is a generalist channel with daily news around the world, documentaries, HRT2 - HRTs second channel, previously known as TVZ2. It is primarily used for broadcasts and entertainment programmes. The channel is known for its footage of vintage films. HRT3 - HRTs third channel, primarily used for culture, films and it was popular during the late 90s, and taken off-air in 2004. It returned to air in September 2012, HRT4 - HRTs fourth channel, broadcasting news programmes, started airing in December 2012. In the 1980s there was a channel called Z3 and later HTV Z3. It was taken off air on 16 September 1991 when its main transmitter, on 7 November 1994 the channel came back on air, this time called HRT3
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Millstreet
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Millstreet is a town in north County Cork, Ireland with a population of approximately 1,500. The town is most famous for hosting Eurovision Song Contest 1993, Millstreet is within the Civil Parish of Drishane, and within a Poor Law Union also called Millstreet. The Millstreet Union encompasses the parishes of both Drishane and Kilcorney. The town is located at the foot of Clara Mountain, the townlands within Millstreet Poor Law Union were part of the barony of West Muskerry. Note that Aubane is a neighborhood of Millstreet Poor Law Union within the townlands of Tooreenbane and Tullig, despite its small population, Millstreet has hosted many major events. One of the largest equestrian centres in Ireland is located in Millstreet, a part of the centre is a facility for shows and exhibitions. It hosted Eurovision Song Contest 1993, which was won by Irelands Niamh Kavanagh, steve Collins twice successfully defended his World Boxing Organization super middleweight boxing championship in Millstreet, against Chris Eubank in 1995, and against Neville Brown in 1996. In July 2006 and July 2014 Millstreet hosted the 29th and 37th European Juggling Convention, in December 2007 it hosted the John Deere show, in which Deere & Company unveiled new agricultural machinery. It also hosted the Farm Machinery Show in January 2008 and 2009, several artists have performed there, such as The Prodigy, James Blunt and Westlife. The towns Catholic church is dedicated to St. Patrick, since October 1985, the town has been twinned with Pommerit-le-Vicomte in Brittany, France. The town is situated on the Mallow–Killarney–Tralee line of the Irish railway network, Millstreet railway station opened on 16 April 1853 and closed for goods traffic on 6 September 1976, though it remains open for passenger train services. Joanne ORiordan Millstreet Town Website Aubane Historical Society
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Eurovision Song Contest 1993
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1993 was the 38th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 15 May 1993 in Millstreet, County Cork, Ireland. Niamh Kavanagh was the winner of this Eurovision for Ireland with the song and this was Irelands fifth victory, and equalled the tally of five Eurovision victories achieved by France in 1977 and Luxembourg in 1983. However, the venue, a large indoor well- equipped equestrian centre was deemed more suitable as the location by RTÉ. With huge support from local and national authorities, plus several businesses in the region and it was also the largest outside broadcast ever attempted by state broadcaster RTÉ and was deemed a technical triumph for all involved. The stage was created by Alan Farquharson, who was also chief production designer two years later in Dublin, BBC newsreader Nicholas Witchell caused controversy by remarking on the air, shortly before the contest, that it would be held in a cowshed in Ireland. The top two countries of this contest were the same as the top two countries in the years contest, being Ireland and the United Kingdom. This was, however, merely a measure that was plainly not a sustainable solution for future years. After some extremely tight voting, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia edged through, each country had a jury who awarded 12,10,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 point for their top ten songs. The voting required a jury to deliberate in the midst of the war in Bosnia. Warm applause rang round the hall as a voice on a phone line was heard to deliver the familiar greeting, Hello Millstreet. By the final few juries it became clear that either Ireland or the United Kingdom were going to win, after the penultimate jury had voted, it looked to be a lost cause for second-placed Sonia of the UK as she was eleven points behind Niamh Kavanagh. Ostensibly due to technical difficulties, the final jury to announce their results was the Maltese jury. However, the name of neither country came up, instead it was Ireland that were awarded the final points of the evening, finishing with what looked in retrospect a comfortable twenty-three-point victory. Interestingly, given the way the votes were cast, having Maltas vote announced last was the way for the contest for victory to go down to the final jury. 1993 was the last year that the points were announced by telephone
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24sata (Croatia)
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24sata is a Croatian daily newspaper published in Zagreb, Croatia. 24sata is the youngest daily newspaper in Croatia and it was launched by Styria Medien AG, an Austrian media group, in March 2005. Its first editor-in-chief, Matija Babić, announced that the new newspaper would target young, urban, the first issue of 24sata seemed to be nothing more than the first Croatian daily tabloid newspaper in terms of both its content and format. However, within six months after its launch the paper managed to establish its position as the third daily newspaper in Croatia in terms of circulation. This success was due partly to the attractive price, after Matija Babić was removed from the post of editor-in-chief on 5 July 2005, Boris Trupčević became the new editor in chief. Before he joined 24sata he was the publisher of Sanoma Magazines in Croatia and he was succeeded by Renato Ivanuš, and as of 2015. 24sata had a circulation of 116,000 copies in 2013, the online version was launched at the same time as the print edition. It became the most visited website in Croatia in 2012, online version has a Mobile Website, as well as iOS, Android and Windows phone applications. In September 2005 24sata was described as the most innovative daily newspaper concept by Tyler Brûlé, in 2009, 24sata was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year in the category of Judges’ Special Recognition by the European Newspapers Congress. In October 2012, the paper was given the Best Use of Facebook Award at the XMA Cross Media Awards held in Frankfurt, INMA awarded 24sata with second place in category Best Idea To Grow Digital Audience or Engagement Official website
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Jutarnji list
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Jutarnji list is an Croatian daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in Zagreb since April,6,1998, by Hanza Media. The newspaper is published in the format and online. Its online edition jutarnji. hr is the second most visited website in Croatia after Index. hr. According to the owner of Hanza Media Marijan Hanžeković, Jutarnji list should be conceptually newspaper of liberal and social-democratic orientation, with emphasis on accuracy, jutarni list was launched in April 1998, becoming the first successful Croatian daily newspaper to appear since the 1950s. It was named after a Zagreb daily that used to circulate before World War II, the newspaper is part of Europapress Holding media group. Jutarnji is considered to be a more left-leaning liberal daily than Večernji list, in 2003, Jutarnji list launched a comprehensive Sunday edition, Nedjeljni Jutarnji. On 19 February 2005, Jutarnji list published a biography of Ante Gotovina. The paper quickly took the majority of Croatian media market and became one of the most read newspapers in that country, in the first five years it sold more than 214 million copies. During the actual economic crisis the number of sold copies diminished from about 80,000 in 2007 to 52,763 in 2013, the crisis hit in the same manner other daily newspapers in Croatia. The circulation of Jutarnji list was 66,000 copies in October 2014, in February 2008, Jutarnji list was involved in a scandal when it published an interview with what was thought to be Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader. The reporter contacted 23-year-old Viktor Zahtila by e-mail and SMS, who he assumed to be the prime minister, Zahtila replied via email and nowhere explicitly stated that he was Ivo Sanader. The reporter, Davor Butković, never checked to see if he was communicating with the PM. Official website Dean Sinovčić, Nina Ožegović, archived from the original on 10 July 2012
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Eurovision Song Contest
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The competition was based upon the existing Sanremo Music Festival held in Italy since 1951. The contest has been broadcast every year for sixty years, since its inauguration in 1956 and it is also one of the most watched non-sporting events in the world, with audience figures having been quoted in recent years as anything between 100 million and 600 million internationally. Eurovision has also been broadcast outside Europe to several countries that do not compete, such as the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and China. An exception was made in 2015, when Australia was allowed to compete as a guest entrant as part of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the event. In November 2015, the EBU announced that Australia was invited back as a participant in the 2016 contest after their success in 2015, following their success again in 2016, Australia will compete again in 2017. Since 2000, the contest has also been broadcast over the Internet via the Eurovision website, winning the Eurovision Song Contest provides a short-term boost to the winning artists career, but rarely results in long-term success. Notable exceptions are ABBA, Bucks Fizz and Céline Dion, all of whom launched successful careers after their wins. Ireland holds the record for the highest number of wins, having won the contest seven times—including four times in five years in 1992,1993,1994 and 1996. Under the current voting system, the highest scoring winner is Jamala of Ukraine who won the 2016 contest in Stockholm, under the previous system, in place from 1975 to 2015, the highest scoring winner is Alexander Rybak of Norway with 387 points in 2009. Satellite television did not exist, and the Eurovision Network comprised a terrestrial microwave network, the name Eurovision was first used in relation to the EBUs network by British journalist George Campey in the London Evening Standard in 1951. The first contest was held in the town of Lugano, Switzerland, seven countries participated—each submitting two songs, for a total of 14. This was the only contest in more than one song per country was performed, since 1957. The 1956 contest was won by the host nation, Switzerland, the programme was first known as the Eurovision Grand Prix. This Grand Prix name was adopted by Denmark, Norway and the Francophone countries, the Grand Prix has since been dropped and replaced with Concours in French, but not in Danish or Norwegian. The Eurovision network is used to carry news and sports programmes internationally. However, in the minds of the public, the name Eurovision is most closely associated with the Song Contest, a country as a participant is represented by one television broadcaster from that country, typically, but not always, that countrys national public broadcasting organisation. The programme is hosted by one of the participant countries, during this programme, after all the songs have been performed, the countries then proceed to cast votes for the other countries songs, nations are not allowed to vote for their own song. At the end of the programme, the song with the most points is declared as the winner, the programme is invariably opened by one or more presenters, welcoming viewers to the show
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Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010
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Croatia selected its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest through the Dora contest, which was held on 5 and 6 March 2010, organised by the Croatian national broadcaster Hrvatska radiotelevizija. The winner of Dora was the girl group Feminnem with Lako je sve, Feminnem had previously represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with the song Call Me, and placed 14th in the final. HRT organised the Dora contest to select the Croatian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, which will be held in Oslo, Norway from 25 to 29 May 2010. The 18th edition of Dora was held in the Crystal Hall of the Kvarner Hotel in Opatija on 5 and 6 March, before this two preview shows of the semi-final songs, Ususret dori were broadcast on 11 and 12 February. 16 songs competed in the semi-final of the contest on 5 March - these songs came from a call for submissions from songwriters. A public televote selected eight of these songs to progress to the final on 6 March, songs could have been submitted to HRT for the semi-final until 15 December. On 29 December HRT published 15 of the 16 semi-final participants, on 8 January 2010 HRT announced the names of the 8 prequalified finalists, as well as the final semi-finalist. The semi-final of Dora 2010 was held on 5 March, from the 16 competing acts a public televote selected eight to progress to the final the following night, on 6 March. Doris Teur was the semi-final winner, the final of Dora 2010 was held on 6 March. The eight automatic finalists were joined by eight semi-final qualifiers, the final was broadcast on HRT1 and online over the EBUs official web stream ESCTV. The winner will be decided by a 50/50 decision by a professional jury,1994 Croatian entrant Tony Cetinski performed a number of his hits during the show. On 20 March, HRT1 aired the music video of Lako je sve for the first time. The video was directed by Croatian director Gonzo, and the worn by Feminnem were designed by Gordana Zucić. In April 2010 Feminnem released Russian, Italian and English language versions of Lako je sve - Легко всë - Ljehko vsjo, Semplice, croatia competed in the second semi-final of the contest, on 27 May. They failed to be amongst the ten qualifiers to the final on 29 May, croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest Eurovision Song Contest 2010 Official Dora website HRT Dora 2010 -16 semi-finalists and reserves HRT Dora 2010 -8 finalists HRT
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Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011
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Croatia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany, selecting their entry through the national selection Dora 2011 - Lets go to Eurovision. Organised by Croatian broadcaster Hrvatska radiotelevizija, having observed this years winner from Germany, HRT has decided to choose a representative in the same way that the Germans chose Lena Meyer-Landrut. Entrants must be Croatian citizens aged 16 or over, HRT stress that the contest is open to unknown acts as well as big names from the Croatian showbiz scene. Dora 2011 will consist of seven programmes, in which entrants will perform songs live, in the first and second programmse twelve acts will participate and six will be eliminated according to a public vote. In the third programme the twelve participants with the most votes from the first two programmes will compete, in the fourth programme six acts will compete, the two of which get the least votes will be eliminated. In both the fifth and sixth programme, one act will be eliminated, only viewers will be able to vote in the first six shows. The first show will take place on 22 January and the big final on 5 March, in the final show two acts will compete, and will sing three songs put forward by HRT by famous Croatian songwriters. The result will decided by a 50/50 jury/televote, on 21 December, HRT announced the 24 participants and 2 back ups for Dora 2011. The participants are, Maksim Hozić and Marina Đurović are the back ups, two artists qualified for the final. The Finalists performed a total of three songs, Lahor, Stotinama godinama and Još ima nas, there was a total of two voting rounds. The song from each singer was determined in the first round, in the jury were Hrvoje Hegedušić, Hrid Matić, Branka Muvrin, Zvonimir Bučević, Želimir Babogredac and Željen Klašterka. The performance featured two outfit changes, croatia placed fifteenth with 41 points and didnt pass to the final. Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest Eurovision Song Contest 2011 HRTs official website
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Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013
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Croatia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden. The Croatian entry was selected through a selection, organised by Croatian broadcaster Croatian Radiotelevision. Klapa s Mora represented Croatia with the song Mižerja, which failed to qualify from the first semi-final of the contest, placing 13th and scoring 38 points. On 26 November 2012, HRT revealed that their process to select an entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 would involve sending a traditional Croatian style Klapa. On 16 January 2013, the panel assembled by HRT selected the song Mižerja, composed by Goran Topolovec. In addition, the song Cili Svit Za Bili Cvit, composed by Miroslav Buljan, was selected as a reserve entry, on 11 February, HRT announced the names of the artists that would form the klapa ensemble, the performers of the Croatian entry. Nikša Bratoš and Dragan Brnas were responsible for the arrangement of Mižerja, the song was officially presented to the public during a press conference in Zagreb on 27 February 2013. During the press conference, the name of the group. Croatia was allocated to compete in the first semi-final on 14 May for a place in the final on 18 May, in the first semifinal, the producers of the show decided that Croatia would perform 4th, following Slovenia and preceding Denmark. The Croatian performance focused on the vocals of the six members of Klapa s Mora, Croatia failed to qualify from the first semi-final of the competition, placing 13th and scoring 38 points. Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest Eurovision Song Contest 2013
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Eurovision Song Contest 2014
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The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 was the 59th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, following Emmelie de Forests win at the 2013 contest in Malmö and this was the third time that Denmark hosted the contest, the most recent previous occasion being in 2001. The two semi-finals took place on 6 May and 8 May 2014, and the final on 10 May 2014, the shows were presented by Lise Rønne, Nikolaj Koppel and Pilou Asbæk. The host broadcaster, DR, chose the B&W Hallerne as the host venue after considering several bids from cities and venues across Denmark, thirty-seven countries participated, this includes the return of Poland after a two-year absence and Portugal after a one-year absence. Overall, there were two countries competing compared to the previous year, making thirty-seven participants, the smallest number since 2006. Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus and Serbia announced their withdrawal from the 2014 Contest, San Marino and Montenegro both qualified for the final for the first time. The winner was Conchita Wurst with the song Rise Like a Phoenix, written by Charley Mason, Joey Patulka, Ali Zuckowski and this was Austrias first win in the competition since 1966. Jokes made about Wurst had sparked controversy, whilst Russia were booed several times during the contest, the Netherlands and Sweden finished second and third respectively with the former achieving their best result since their victory in the 1975 Contest. Armenia finished fourth, which equals their best result to date, while Hungary finished fifth, of the Big Five, only Ruth Lorenzo of Spain achieved a place in the top ten. A new record of 195 million viewers for the Eurovision Song Contest was reported, the host broadcaster, DR, and the EBU won the International TV Award at the Ondas Awards for their production of the contest. On 2 September 2013, Danish public broadcaster DR announced that it had chosen Copenhagen as the host city for the 2014 contest, the contest was held at the former shipyard Refshaleøen, in the B&W Hallerne, with the social networking hashtag #JoinUs as the motto. The mayor of Copenhagen, Frank Jensen, declared in late August that the city would contribute to the budget with 40 million. He also announced that the aim was to make the Eurovision 2014 into the greenest contest to date since Copenhagen had been elected European Green Capital for 2014. Five cities had been considered as host city of the contest, including Herning and Copenhagen, later, Fredericia and Aalborg entered the phase with the Messe C and Gigantium venues, respectively. The fifth city to join the phase was Horsens, with the venue being the courtyard of the former Horsens State Prison, in the event that Horsens had been chosen to host the contest, the courtyard would have been covered by a permanent glass roof. The contest was set to take place on 13,15 and 17 May 2014, however. On 17 June 2013, the municipality executive of Aalborg decided not to bid for hosting the contest due to the lack of sufficient hotel capacity. On 25 June 2013, the Municipality of Fredericia announced that the Triangle Region had withdrawn its bid on hosting the contest, DR required the hosting venue to have no pillars blocking any views and an interior height of at least 16 metres
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Eurovision Song Contest 2015
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The Eurovision Song Contest 2015 was the 60th anniversary edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest musical event. The contest took place in Vienna, Austria, following Austrian Conchita Wursts victory in the 2014 and this was the second time that Austria hosted the contest, the 1967 being the first. The 2015 contest consisted of two semi-finals, which place on 19 and 21 May, and a final, held on 23 May 2015. The shows were presented by Mirjam Weichselbraun, Alice Tumler and Arabella Kiesbauer while Conchita Wurst was hosting the green room, forty countries participated in the contest, with Australia making a guest appearance, and Cyprus, the Czech Republic, and Serbia returning. Ukraine, however, announced their withdrawal due to financial and political reasons around the Ukrainian crisis, once all the votes had been announced, based on 50% jury and 50% televoting, Sweden won the contest for the sixth time, with Måns Zelmerlöws song Heroes. Sweden became the first country to win the contest twice in the current format, and this was the second win in four years. Italy won the voting with Russia in second place. Sweden won the voting, with Latvia in second place. This is the first time since the juries were reintroduced alongside the televoting in 2009 that the winner didnt place first in the televoting, for the first time, the top four of the contest all scored 200 points or better. Russias entry A Million Voices became the first non-winning Eurovision song to score over 300 points, Austria and Germany became the first countries 2003 to score no points in the final. Austria is also the first host country to score nul points, the 2015 contest also saw the best ever result for Montenegro since its independence, and the Czech Republic. Also the top two countries of this contest were the same as the top two countries in the 2012, being Sweden and Russia, over 197 million viewers worldwide watched the contest, beating the 2014 viewing figures by 2 million. The Wiener Stadthalle hosts the annual Erste Bank Open tennis tournament, after Austrias victory in the 2014 Contest, their delegation revealed the possibility of hosting the contest either in the capital city, Vienna, or in Salzburg. Vienna, considered the front-runner, had two venues in the phase, Wiener Stadthalle and the trade centre, Messe Wien. Also in the race were Stadthalle Graz and Schwarzl Freizeit Zentrum, with a maximum capacity of 30,000, the Wörthersee Stadium in Klagenfurt also joined the race, however, it would require the construction of a roof for the contest to be hosted there. Innsbruck also joined the race with Olympiahalle, which hosted ice hockey, a fifth city, Linz, joined the race with Brucknerhaus, although the venue is not big enough for the contest. Being geographically close to Linz, Wels showed desire to host the event as well, oberwart, with the Exhibition hall, and Vorarlberg, with the Vorarlberger Landestheater, were the latest cities to declare an interest. On 29 May 2014, Austrian host public broadcaster ORF and the EBU released some requirements, ORF requested interested parties to respond by 13 June 2014
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Tony Cetinski
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Anthony Tony Cetinski is a Croatian pop singer. Today, he is one of the most popular singers in Croatia and he is also popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia. Born into a family of musicians in Pula, Cetinski began singing when he was 15 years old with various local groups and he moved from Rovinj to Zagreb in 1991 to start his career, and quickly became one of Croatias leading pop stars. In 1994 he represented Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Nek ti bude ljubav sva, at the 10th Croatian Radio Festival in 2006, Cetinski won all three prizes in pop-rock category, HRF Grand Prix – pop-rock, Listeners award and Music Editors award. He also recorded the song Lagala nas mala as a duet with the late Toše Proeski and this song appears on both of Toše Proeskis 2005 albums Po tebe and the Croatian edition Pratim te. The song was also done as a remix by DeeJay Time, in 2009 Cetinski won the Porin award for best male vocal performance with his song Ako to se zove ljubav. Cetinski sold out two concerts in Arena Zagreb the same year more than 30,000 people attending. 1990 Samo srce ne laže 1992 Ljubomora I1993 Ljubomora II1995 Ljubav i bol 1996 Prah i pepeo 1998 A12000 Triptonyc 2003 A sada, Tony worked as a stone carver at Donji Humac on Brač Island
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E.N.I.
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E. N. I. is Croatian pop band from Rijeka. Like the Rijeka group Put four years earlier, E. N. I. was created out of Putokazi in order to compete in at the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 with the song Probudi me. Unlike most of Eurovision contenders who later sank into obscurity, E. N. I, maintained its presence in Croatian music industry due to respectable vocal talents and frequent co-operation with other artists, mainly rock musicians from Rijeka. In the campaign for 2000 parliamentary elections they, together with other rock musicians, supported Social Democratic Party of Croatia. They also appeared at 2004 Zagreb Pride parade and festival
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Goran Karan
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Goran Karan, is a Croatian singer from Split. He specializes in songs influenced by Dalmatian folk music and is known for his powerful, karans collaboration with composer Zdenko Runjić led to some of his finest work, which won him several awards. Karan was the singer of Croatian rock group Big Blue. In 2000 he represented Croatia at Eurovision Song Contest, after winning the Croatian pre-selection Dora, in the Eurovision Song Contest, he won the ninth place with his song Ostani. In 2005 he was one of the judges in Hrvatski idol, karans song Ružo moja bila won the 2005 Split Festival song competition, as well as 2005 Sunčane skale festival in Herceg Novi. Kao da te ne volim -1999 Vagabundo -2000 Ahoj, -2003 Od srca do usana -2005 Zlatna kolekcija -2005 Dite Ljubavi -2008 www. gorankaran. hr gorankaran. atspace. com
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Vanna (singer)
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Ivana Ranilović-Vrdoljak, better known by her stage name Vanna, is a pop singer from Croatia. As a child, Vanna won prizes in various national children and her debut was at the 1990 Zagrebfest, a music festival held in Zagreb. In that year she left her hometown to live and study in Zagreb and whilst studying, in 1992 her professional career as a singer was launched. She joined a band called Electro Team and became an instant star. Not only was she a singer but also a co-author and songwriter of all the songs performed by Electro Team, the bands albums all officially became platinum although is no accurate system in Croatia to monitor number of record sales. The song Tek je 12 sati became a hit in 1993. In 1998, Vanna left Electro Team to start a career and record her first album. Vanna has since recorded three solo albums and has won several other awards. She came first at Zadarfest three years in succession and her album 24 sata reached gold. In 2000 she came second in Dora, the Croatian national final for the Eurovision Song Contest with a written by Bruno Kovačić. Being runner-up, she decided to again in 2001 and now won with Tonči Huljićs song Strune ljubavi. Shortly after Dora, she gave birth to daughter Jana, Vanna represented Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 in Copenhagen on 12 May 2001 and finished 10th. She sang the song in Croatian and in English, now entitled Strings of My Heart, after Eurovision, Vanna released a live album called Vanna u Lisinskom and won Zadarfest again with Više nisi moj. She won prizes in other festivals. In 2012, she had a guest appearance on the track Za tvoje oči from the album Praštam of Serbian rock band Neverne Bebe, Vanna is married to Andrija Vrdoljak, son of Croatian film director Antun Vrdoljak, and they have two children, Luka and Jana. Electro Team Second To None Anno Domini 1996 I to sam ja Ispod istog neba 24 sata U Lisinskom Hrabra kao prije Ledeno doba Sjaj
Croatia