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Nowadays in Croatia (and through Internet in the United States also) they maintain that '''Marco Polo''' was born on Croatian island of Korcula <ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzola#History Wikipedia-Korcula History]</ref>  ''(historically Curzola; up to 1920s the main town of the island was populated by an Italian majority)'' and that he was a Croat, not a Venetian, without any document to prove it.  

Nowadays in Croatia (and through Internet in the United States also) they maintain that '''Marco Polo''' was born on Croatian island of Korcula <ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzola#History Wikipedia-Korcula History]</ref>  ''(historically Curzola; up to 1920s the main town of the island was populated by an Italian majority)'' and that he was a Croat, not a Venetian, without any document to prove it.  

They also appropriate Giovanni da Verrazzano, the Tuscan explorer who is considered to be the first European to have discovered the bay of New York, in 1524 (decades before Henry Hudson). For this primacy his name was given to the spectacular modern bridge that connects Brooklyn with Staten Island. But now Verrazzano is proclaimed “Croat”. Why? Because while exploring the Eastern Atlantic coast going North, he used to give some Dalmatian names to certain territories and islands he discovered during his voyage. So Verrazzano becomes “Vranjanin or Vrancic”.  

They also appropriate ''Giovanni da Verrazzano'', the Tuscan explorer who is considered to be the first European to have discovered the bay of New York, in 1524 (decades before Henry Hudson). For this primacy his name was given to the spectacular modern bridge that connects Brooklyn with Staten Island. But now Verrazzano is proclaimed “Croat”. Why? Because while exploring the Eastern Atlantic coast going North, he used to give some Dalmatian names to certain territories and islands he discovered during his voyage. So Verrazzano becomes “Vranjanin or Vrancic”.  

The same destiny is reserved to an Austrian composer, '''Franz Joseph Haydn''',<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Haydn's_ethnicity Joseph Haydn's ethnicity]</ref> only because he was born (in 1723) in an Austrian region inhabited by a community of Croatian origins who settled there in VII century A.D. during barbarian invasions of Europe. Certain Croatian nationalistic historiographers are busy creating for their country the desolating fake image of a civilized and highly spiritual nation, using the heritage of a civilisation the country eradicated in the first historically documented, but still unknown, Balkan ethnic cleansing.  

The same destiny is reserved to an Austrian composer, '''Franz Joseph Haydn''',<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Haydn's_ethnicity Joseph Haydn's ethnicity]</ref> only because he was born (in 1723) in an Austrian region inhabited by a community of Croatian origins who settled there in VII century A.D. during barbarian invasions of Europe. Certain Croatian nationalistic historiographers are busy creating for their country the desolating fake image of a civilized and highly spiritual nation, using the heritage of a civilisation the country eradicated in the first historically documented, but still unknown, Balkan ethnic cleansing.  

*Preceding unsigned comment added  on Wikipedia ''by'' ''IP 200.112.16.153'' (28 December 2009)

*Preceding unsigned comment added  on Wikipedia ''by'' ''IP 200.112.16.153'' (28 December 2009)

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