ETHNIC MINORITIES OF MY COUNTRY AND

THEIR TRADITIONAL AND MODERN MUSIC

Population of Croatia: approximately 4,5 million

0,8 % of national minorities

Minorities: Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Italian, Hungarian, German, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Russian, Romani

Protection of only some of the national minorities

GENERAL INFORMATION

Rights of some of the national minorities:

Cultural autonomy

Education in native language and script

Participation in the work of the Government

Cooperation with the homeland of each minority

MINORITIES’ RIGHTS

4,36 %

Part of Croatian population – rejection and intolerance

Bilingual plates

Many cultural organizations and their own newspaper

Serbian cultural society „Prosvjeta” Zagreb – the oldest organization

THE SERBIAN MINORITY

0,4 %

Problems in the past, problems are solved, people well integrated

Daily newpaper “La Voce del Popolo”

Profesional theater and science organizations

Everything is financed from the Croatian Government budget

Istarska county, Primorsko-goranska county, Požeško-slavonska county, the city of Zagreb

THE ITALIAN MINORITY

Italian national minority

0,4 %

Recent times- large growth (79, 38 %) – because of many

benefits

Romani National Council in Zagreb

Northern and eastern parts of the country

5th of November – World Romani language day

Romani-Croatian dictionary

THE ROMANI MINORITY

Romani national minority

0,2 %

Central Croatia

The minority with the most cultural activities

The town of Daruvar

“Češka beseda Zagreb”

The Czech and Slovak minorities have a common representative in the Croatian Parliament

THE CZECH MINORITY

0,4 %

Geographically the closest to Koprivnica

In eastern Croatia since ancient times

Baranja, Bilogora, Podravina (along the Hungarian border)

Numerous cultural organizations

Hungarian representative in the Croatian Parliament

THE HUNGARIAN MINORITY

UNITED IN DIVERSITY

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