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The Croatian question refers to a political, cultural, social and economical status of <a href="/facts/Croats/pxr26XCP">Croats</a> in <a href="/facts/Austria-Hungary/9WPUPj0W">Austria-Hungary</a>, <a href="/facts/Kingdom_of_Yugoslavia/IRNUtvxW">Kingdom of Yugoslavia</a>, <a href="/facts/Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia/PXRlHx9q">SFR Yugoslavia</a> and post-<a href="/facts/Dayton_Agreement/dcy2yhwy">Dayton</a> <a href="/facts/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina/jNVA1gPB">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a>.

The first steps towards Croat <a href="/facts/Home_rule/8oSS0uA9">home rule</a> were made in 1939 with the <a href="/facts/Cvetkovi%25C4%2587%25E2%2580%2593Ma%25C4%258Dek_Agreement/P7CtnxUY">Cvetković–Maček Agreement</a>, creating the <a href="/facts/Autonomous_province/CtdjTFjC">autonomous</a> <a href="/facts/Banovina_of_Croatia/T214w1LF">Banovina of Croatia</a>. This province, mostly coterminous with the former <a href="/facts/Sava_Banovina/e9IFaoG9">Sava</a> and <a href="/facts/Littoral_Banovina/uG3KN3mj">Littoral Banovinas</a> with the exception of a few other Croat-majority regions, lasted until <a href="/facts/Invasion_of_Yugoslavia/RURH0TPp">invasion of Yugoslavia</a> during the <a href="/facts/World_War_II_in_Yugoslavia/GbILh6Mt">World War II</a>, with the <a href="/facts/Independent_State_of_Croatia/UgYw4UQ5">Independent State of Croatia</a> being established as a <a href="/facts/Nazi_Germany/8kRbqRpo">Nazi German</a> <a href="/facts/List_of_World_War_II_puppet_states/C9qkXQB0">puppet state</a> 10 April 1941.
In post-WWII Yugoslavia, the Croatian <a href="/facts/National_question/Rb8kUBL4">national question</a> was mostly resolved on 25 June 1991 with the <a href="/facts/Independence_of_Croatia/VqwfVXSt">independence</a> of the <a href="/facts/Croatia/MSS0yyvw">Republic of Croatia</a>, from the territory of the constituent <a href="/facts/Socialist_Republic_of_Croatia/LT1sxuFe">SR Croatia</a>.

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