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Krešimir Ćosić (politician)

Croatian soldier and politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 5, 2020
Entity authorityQ6436937 ↗
Source-derived summary

Krešimir Ćosić (born 23 October 1949 in Zagreb, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Croatian soldier and politician.

Background

He graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Zagreb in 1973, and later obtained a doctorate in 1984. Ćosić holds the rank of Lieutenant General of the Croatian Army. He was in active service between 1991 and 2000, when he was retired after signing the Twelve Generals' Letter. Since 2005, he has been leader of the Croatian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

Politics

Ćosić attained a seat in the Parliament on the party list of Croatian Democratic Union at the 2003 and 2007 parliamentary elections.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Krešimir Ćosić (politician)” is croatian soldier and politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Krešimir, Ćosić and politician, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 1973, 1984, 1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Krešimir, Ćosić and politician is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “croatian soldier and politician” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 5, 2020. The linked authority identifier is Q6436937. The first chronological checks are 1949, 1973, 1984 and 1991.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Krešimir Ćosić (politician)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.