Bulgarians in Croatia
Total population
350[1]
Languages
Croatian, Bulgarian
Religion
Bulgarian Orthodox (45%)
Catholic (23%)
Related ethnic groups
Croatian Macedonians
Bulgarian memorial in the krypt of the Đakovo Cathedral.

Bulgarians in Croatia (Croatian: Bugari Hrvatske, Bulgarian: Българи в Хърватия) are one of 22 national minorities in Croatia. According to the last census from 2011, there were 872 Bulgarians living in Croatia, from which most of them lived in Zagreb.

Bulgarians are officially recognized as an autochthonous national minority, and as such, they elect a special representative to the Croatian Parliament, shared with members of eleven other national minorities.[2]

Number of Bulgarians

Formal name of CroatiaYearNumber of Bulgarians
part of Yugoslavia1931606
People's Republic of Croatia1948637
1953464
1961593
Socialist Republic of Croatia1971676
1981441
Republic of Croatia1991458
2001331
2011350
(Croatian Bureau of Statistics) [1][3]

2011 census

County Bulgarians Total percentage
City of Zagreb12042.86%
Split-Dalmatia4813.71%
Istria349.71%
Osijek-Baranja267.43%
Primorje-Gorski Kotar246.86%
Zagreb164.57%
Bjelovar Bilogora123.43%
Brod-Posavina102.86%
Zadar102.86%
Varaždin92.57%
Šibenik-Knin82.29%
Vukovar-Syrmia72.00%
Sisak-Moslavina61.71%
Karlovac51.43%
Dubrovnik Neretva30.86%
Požega-Slavonia30.86%
Virovitica-Podravina30.86%
Lika-Senj21.57%
Krapina-Zagorje10.29%
Međimurje10.29%
Total350100%
(2011 census) [4]

Notable people

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Stanovništvo prema narodnosti, popisi 1971. - 2011" (in Croatian). Retrieved 20 December 2012.
  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.
  3. Stanovništvo Hrvatske od 1931.-2001.
  4. Popis stanovništva 2001. godine
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