The Crown of Zvonimir was bestowed on king Demetrius Zvonimir of Croatia in 1075 by the papal legate of Pope Gregory VII at Basilica of Saint Peter and Moses at Salona.
Baptistery with figure of Croatian king from the 11th century, now in the Split Cathedral. The king is suggested to be Petar Krešimir IV or Demetrius Zvonimir.
The Independent State of Croatia was a World War II–era quasi-state. It was a protectorate of Fascist Italy from 1941 to 1943, and a puppet state of Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945. It was established
Crown of Zvonimir
…historian Mladen Ančić disputed the thesis. In 1941, the fascist Ustaše regime assumed control of Croatia and decided to reinstate a monarchy in the Independent State of Croatia, also appropriating the symbols of the medieval Croatian state. They created another "Crown of Zvonimir", though with little resemblance to the original…
Message calling on Jews and Serbs to surrender their weapons at the risk of being severely condemned
An antisemitic poster in Zagreb, advertising an exhibition about the "destructive work of the Jews in Croatia" and the "solution to the Jewish question in the NDH."
Poglavnik Ante Pavelic (left) with Italy's Duce Benito Mussolini (right) in Rome, Italy on 18 May 1941, during the ceremony of Italy's recognition of Croatia as a sovereign state under official Italian protection, and to agree upon Croatia's borders with Italy
Adolf Hitler (left) with Ante Pavelić (right) at the Berghof, outside the Berchtesgaden, Germany