Croats in the Czech Republic

Croats are one of the 14 recognized minorities in the Czech Republic.^[2]

According to the 2021 census, 2,400 Croats live in the Czech Republic, half of which stated their Croatian nationality in combination with another nationality.

Charter of Fundamental Rights and Basic Freedoms of the Czech Republic

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They live primarily in the South Moravian Region, in the municipalities of Jevišovka, Dobré Pole and Nový Přerov.^[3]

History

The ancestors of the Croats in the Czech Republic arrived in the first half of the 16th century at the invitation of the

Ottoman Turks.^[3] The period of their settling is at the same time as the arrival of the Croats to Austria, Hungary and Slovakia, who are called the Burgenland Croats. The migration of the Croats to Moravia got the attention of ethnographers, linguists, and historians in that era. The first mention of Croats was at the end of the 18th century. They tried to explain the reasons for the migration of the Croats from their ancestral homeland. They believed that the colonization of the Croats started from the Croatian regions south of the Kupa and Petrova Gora, better known as Banska Krajina (present-day Banovina), was summarized by Adolf Turek.^[4]

The Czech Croats lived without a main settlement in parts of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany and Austria. It used to be a continuous string of villages, especially in the region of so-called "

Southern Slavs, more precisely Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and Czechoslovakia, was proposed but ultimately rejected at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919

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Languages

A saying of the Czech Croats was "We are a people of three languages." Of all the national minorities, only the Croats were trilingual. They spoke

Ikavian

language was mixed with loan words of both Czech and German origins. Croatian is not studied in Czech schools, so the majority younger generation does not speak it. The older generation of Czech Croats preserved the language, culture, and customs by gathering in organizations and reading magazines in Croatian.

References

^ ^a ^b "Národnost". Census 2021 (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. Archived from the original on 15 January 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
^ "Government Council for National Minorities". Government of the Czech Republic. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Moravské Chorvaty nezákonně vyhnali komunisté, omluva dodnes nepřišla" (in Czech). iDnes. 2018-04-22. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
^ Pavličević, Dragutin (1994). Moravski Hrvati.

[census-1] "Národnost". Census 2021 (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. Archived from the original on 15 January 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2022.

[2] "Government Council for National Minorities". Government of the Czech Republic. Retrieved 10 February 2022.

[idnes-3] "Moravské Chorvaty nezákonně vyhnali komunisté, omluva dodnes nepřišla" (in Czech). iDnes. 2018-04-22. Retrieved 2021-11-29.

[4] Pavličević, Dragutin (1994). Moravski Hrvati.

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