Bosniaks of Croatia

Bosniaks of Croatia
Bošnjaci u Hrvatskoj
	Slavic peoples, especially South Slavs

Bosniaks of Croatia (

Republic of Croatia. According to the 2021 Croatian census, there were 24,131 Bosniaks, or 0.62% of the total population, making them the third largest ethnic group in the country after Croats and Serbs.^[1]

Bosniaks are officially recognized as an autochthonous national minority, and as such, they elect a special representative to the Croatian Parliament, shared with members of four other national minorities.^[2] Most Bosniaks live in the capital Zagreb (8,119), Istria County (6,146) and Primorje-Gorski Kotar County (4,877).^[3] There is a Bosniak community in Maljevac, hence the mosque in the village.

Religion

Bosniaks of Croatia are predominantly Muslims, with 21,119 (87.52) subscribing to this confession according to the 2021 Croatian census. They're followed by 1,113 (4.61%) Bosniaks who declared as atheists or non-religious and 367 (1.52%) declared as agnostics. There were 981 (4.07%) Bosniaks of undisclosed or unknown confession, while the rest belonged to various Christian denominations or other religions.^[1]

Politics

Bosniaks are officially recognised as an autochthonous national minority, and as such, they have elected, together with Albanians, Montenegrins, Macedonians and Slovenes, one representative to the Croatian Parliament since 2003.

Election	Representative	Party	Nationality	Term
2003	Šemso Tanković	SDAH	Bosniak	2003–2011
2007	Šemso Tanković	SDAH	Bosniak	2003–2011
2011	Nedžad Hodžić	BDSH	Bosniak	2011–2015
2015	Ermina Lekaj Prljaskaj	Independent	Albanian	2015–present
2016
2020

References

^ ^a ^b "Census of population, households and dwellings in 2021 – population of Republic of Croatia". Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 31 January 2023. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
^ "Pravo pripadnika nacionalnih manjina u Republici Hrvatskoj na zastupljenost u Hrvatskom saboru". Zakon o izborima zastupnika u Hrvatski sabor (in Croatian). Croatian Parliament. Retrieved 2011-12-29.
^ "Population by Ethnicity, by Towns/Municipalities, 2011 Census". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.

[2021census-1] "Census of population, households and dwellings in 2021 – population of Republic of Croatia". Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 31 January 2023. Retrieved 14 April 2023.

[2] "Pravo pripadnika nacionalnih manjina u Republici Hrvatskoj na zastupljenost u Hrvatskom saboru". Zakon o izborima zastupnika u Hrvatski sabor (in Croatian). Croatian Parliament. Retrieved 2011-12-29.

[census2011-ethnic-counties-3] "Population by Ethnicity, by Towns/Municipalities, 2011 Census". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.

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v t e Ethnic groups in Croatia
Nation	Croats
National minorities	Albanians Austrians Bosniaks Bulgarians Czechs Germans Hungarians Italians (Dalmatia, Istria) Jews Macedonians Montenegrins Poles Romani Romanians Russians Rusyns Serbs (Vukovar, Zagreb) Slovaks Slovenes Turks Ukrainians Vlachs
Others	Arbanasi Istro-Romanians Portuguese Yugoslavs

v t e Bosniak diaspora
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Asia	Arab World (Syria) Turkey
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Oceania	Australia

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