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Croatia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 21 times since making its debut at the 1993 contest. Croatia's first top ten result at the contest came in 1995, when Magazin & Lidija Horvat-Dunjko finished sixth. This would be the first of six top ten results in seven years. Maja Blagdan was fourth in 1996, Danijela Martinovic, who had previously participated as a member of Magazin, was fifth in 1998, Doris Dragovic, who had finished 11th for Yugoslavia in , was fourth in 1999, Goran Karan was ninth in 2000 and Vanna was tenth in 2001. Since then, Croatia has failed to reach the top ten. Since the introduction of the semi-final round in 2004, Croatia has failed to reach the final on five occasions, including four years in succession from 2010–2013. Croatia then announced its withdrawal from the contest〔 and didn't participate in either. On 26 November 2015, it was announced that Croatia would return to the contest in . The Croatian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest was selected at the pop festival called ''Dora'', an annual event organised by the national public broadcaster Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HRT). ==History== Croatia participated at Eurovision ten times as part of Yugoslavia, in 1963, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972 and 1986–90. Apart from being the most successful Yugoslav republic in the contest, it gave the socialist republic its only win, "Rock Me", sung by Riva in 1989, that was held in Lausanne. The Eurovision Song Contest 1990 was held in Zagreb as a result. After the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1991, the Croatian national public broadcaster Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HRT) had organised a festival to select a Croatian representative for the 1992 Contest. Had HRT been a member of the EBU in time for the contest, the first Croatian entry at Eurovision would have been the band Magazin with "Aleluja".〔(Croatian Contest for the Eurovision Song Contest - Grand Prix '92 )〕 Croatia's first entry as an independent state was in 1993 with the band Put, performing "Don't Ever Cry" which was, despite the English title, performed in Croatian. The song came third in the "Qualification for Millstreet", which allowed for their participation in the 1993 contest. Croatia's best position, as of 2013, has been with Maja Blagdan's 1996 entry "Sveta ljubav", and Doris Dragović's 1999 entry "Marija Magdalena". Along with Malta and Cyprus and Portugal, Croatia was never relegated in the 1990s, and (unlike Cyprus and Portugal) it was never relegated in the beginning of the 21st century. Croatia and Malta are the only countries that have never won the contest and that have never been relegated either Croatian singer Tereza Kesovija represented Monaco at the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 and the Croatian group Feminnem represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with "Call me". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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