REGIONALISM AND TERRITORIAL STRUCTURE OF CROATIAIN THE PERIOD 1945-2000

When talking about politically-territorial organization, current circumstances incontemporary Croatia are characterized by one, to a considerable degree improvised condition. By this are meant numerous extra ordinarily infavourable (war circumstances) and special political influences (political conformism). Therefore, solutions were irrelevant to the needs and in appropriate for real regional conditions, what means they were unstable. Permanent cause of instability lies partly in understatement of the system of politically-territorial organization itself, but even more in essential deviations of territorially-political division of Croatia from its real regional structure and complexity. When talking about understatement and through this instability of the system of politically-territorial organization of the Republic of Croatia, it should be especially pointed out the fact that the question of number of levels of government administration and self-government’s organization (polarization centres) has remained conceptionally unsolved. In view of this, improvisations were followed by improvised demarcation of politically territorial units (counties, City of Zagreb, municipalities, cities). In such course of political consideration and decision-making it could not be achieved indispensable concordance between existing hierarchically really spreaded system of urban centres and a net of formalcentres established by improvised criteria of territorial demarcation of politically-administrative units.