1. ETHNIC MINORITIES OF MY
COUNTRY AND THEIR
TRADITIONAL AND
MODERN MUSIC

2. GENERAL INFORMATION
 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

3. MINORITIES’ RIGHTS
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

4. THE SERBIAN MINORITY
 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

6. THE ITALIAN 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

7. Italian national minority

8. THE ROMANI 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

9. Romani national
minority

10. THE CZECH 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

11. THE HUNGARIAN 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

12. UNITED IN DIVERSITY

13.  THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION !