Homeland War Memorial Medal

{{Infobox award

| name = Homeland War Memorial Medal
{{lang|hr|Spomenica Domovinskog rata}}

| image = Homeland War Memorial Medal Obverse.jpg

| image_size = 200px

| caption =

| presenter = the President of Croatia

| country = Croatia

| type = Service medal

| eligibility = Croatian and foreign citizens

| awarded_for = Participation in the Homeland War

| status = Active

| description =

| motto =

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| post-nominals =

| established = {{Start date and age|1995|3|10}}

| firstawarded =

| lastawarded =

| total_awarded = 430,884

| total_awarded_posthumously =

| total_recipients =

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| individual =

| higher = Order of the Croatian Interlace{{cite journal | url = http://www.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeno/1995/0377.htm | journal = Narodne novine | issue = 1995/20 | author = Croatian Parliament | author-link = Croatian Parliament | language = Croatian | title = Zakon o odlikovanjima i priznanjima Republike Hrvatske |trans-title= Law on Decorations | date = 1995-03-24 | accessdate = 2020-09-28}}

| same =

| lower = Homeland's Gratitude Medal

| related =

| image2 = Ribbon of a Commemorative Medal of the Homeland War.png

| caption2 = Ribbon of the Homeland War Memorial Medal

}}

The Homeland War Memorial ({{langx|hr|Spomenica Domovinskog rata}}) is a Croatian state medal awarded to both Croatian and foreign citizens who participated in the nation's Croatian War of Independence as a volunteer, part of the Croatian Army and Croatian Council of Defence or in some other role.{{cite web |url=http://www.predsjednik.hr/default.asp?gl=200309120000006 |title=ZAKON o odlikovanjima i priznanjima Republike Hrvatske NN 20/95 |accessdate=2007-06-11 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611131029/http://www.predsjednik.hr/default.asp?gl=200309120000006 |archivedate=2007-06-11 }}

The medal was widely granted, given to over 430,000 people who participated in the war in some form.{{Cite web |url=http://www.cfiva.org/cfiva/medals/index.cfm |title=Military Medals, Decorations, and Orders of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina - Croatian Forces International Volunteers Association - Udruga Medunarodnih Dragovoljaca Hrvatskih Oruzanih Snaga |access-date=2007-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722124859/http://www.cfiva.org/cfiva/medals/index.cfm |archive-date=2012-07-22 |url-status=usurped }} Much less number has been given in its first and original form Spomenica Domovinskog rata 1990.-1992. to those who participated in the resistance and early days of the formation of the Croatian state and army in the period 1990-1992, and as such was established on the 9th of June 1992.{{cite web | url=https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/1992_06_33_817.html | title=Zakon o odlikovanjima i priznanjima Republike Hrvatske }}{{cite web | url=http://kokosar.com/HVmedalje.html | title=Osnovna }}