Grgo Kusić (1892 – 1918) was a Croat soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army. According to some accounts, Kusić was 2.37 m (7 ft 9 in) tall, and is frequently cited as the tallest Croat ever,[1][2] as well as the tallest soldier of the Austro-Hungarian Army.[1] However, other accounts put his height at 2.18 m (7 ft 2 in), so the exact figure is not known for certain.[2]
Known as the Gulliver of Dalmatia, the Grabovac native was a personal imperial guard to emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in Vienna.[1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "La Croatie: Le saviez-vous?" (in French). amb-croatie.fr. Embassy of Croatia in France. Archived from the original on 2009-03-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20090312071208/http://www.amb-croatie.fr/croatie/saviez-vous.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-10.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Visoki Hrvati" (in Croatian). hkkv.hr. October 28, 2008. Archived from the original on May 15, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110515115255/http://www.hkkv.hr/content/view/131/2. Retrieved 2009-04-10.
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