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Summary The development of systematic, continuous, and effective communication and co- operation with the members of the Croatian national minority in Montenegro, which for centuries has mostly consisted of the autochthonous population of Boka Kotorska, is in the focus of numerous state and public institutions of the Republic of Croatia. [...] Special emphasis is placed on the work and activities of two bodies of the state administration of the Republic of Croatia: the Ministry of Science and Education, and the Central State Office for Croats Abroad. [...] Among other things, the Office is responsible for the preparation and holding of the sessions of the Intergovernmental Joint Committee for the Protection of National Minorities between the Republic of Croatia and Montenegro, established to monitor the im- plementation of the bilateral agreement between the two countries on the mutual protection of the rights of national minorities, reached in Zagr. [...] The biography, opus, style and technique of the Dubrovnik painter and wood- carver Božidar Vlatković, father of Nikola Božidarević, are researched in the article on the knowledge about the Cavtat painting attributed to Božidar Vlatković and the question of the duration of Lovro Dobričević’s influence in Dubrovnik painting circles. [...] Ozana Ramljak explores the part of his poetic corpus in which nostalgia is woven as a fundamental constitutive element, as nostalgia is precisely the “trouble of the spirit”, the longing for his homeland, the idealized images of childhood, and the essential connection with the Bay of Kotor as an almost mythical space of memory, remembrance and lyrical narration, is one of the fundamental pillars o.