| Croats |
 | | Total population: | 5 to 6 million (2005 est.) | | Significant populations in: | Croatia:
4,028,000 (2005 est.)
3,977,171 (2001 census) Austria:
60,000 (est.)
Australia:
140,000 (est.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
575,000 (2005 est.)
Canada:
70,000 (est.)
Germany:
400,000 (est.)
Hungary:
20,000 (est.)
Italy:
100,000 (est.)
New Zealand:
30,000 (est)
Serbia and Montenegro:
100,000 (est.)
South Africa:
80,000 (est.)
Sweden :
50,000 (est.)
USA:
300,000 (2005)
UK :
40,000 (est.)
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| | Language: | Croatian | | Religion: | Predominantly Roman Catholic.
Also Orthodox, Muslim and Atheist minorities.
| | Related ethnic groups: | Slavs
South Slavs The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...
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| Croats (Croatian: Hrvati) are a south Slavic people mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There is a notable Croat diaspora in western Europe, the Americas, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The Croats are predominantly Catholic and their language is Croatian. The Slavic peoples are the most numerous ethnic and linguistic body of peoples in Europe. ...
Look up Diaspora in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term diaspora (Ancient Greek διασποÏά, a scattering or sowing of seeds) is used (without capitalization) to refer to any people or ethnic population forced or induced to leave their traditional ethnic homelands, being dispersed throughout other parts of the world, and the...
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Croatia is the nation state of the Croats, while in the adjacent Bosnia and Herzegovina they are one of the constitutive nations. A nation-state is a specific form of state, which exists to provide a sovereign territory for a particular nation, and derives its legitimacy from that function. ...
More than 95% of population of Bosnia and Herzegovina belongs to one of its three constitutive nations: Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs. ...
Autochthonous Croat minorities exist in:
The population numbers are reasonably accurate domestically: a bit under four million in Croatia and around 600,000 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Serbia and Montenegro – Serbia – Kosovo and Metohia (UN administration) – Vojvodina – Montenegro Official languages Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian, Croatian, Rusyn1 Capital Novi Sad Area – Total – % water 21,500 km² n/a Population – Total (2002) – Density 2,031,992 94. ...
Serbia and Montenegro – Serbia – Kosovo and Metohia (UN administration) – Vojvodina – Montenegro Official language Serbian1 Capital Belgrade Area – Total – % water 88,361 km² n/a Population – Total (2002) (without Kosovo) – Density 7. ...
Tectonics at the Bay of Kotor Boka Kotorska (Bay of Kotor, Bocche di Cattaro) in western Montenegro is a winding bay on the Adriatic sea. ...
Serbia and Montenegro – Serbia – Kosovo and Metohia (UN administration) – Vojvodina – Montenegro Official language Serbian Capital Podgorica Former Royal Capital Cetinje President Filip Vujanović Prime Minister Milo Äukanović Area – Total – % water 13,812 km² n/a Population – Total (2003) – Density 616,258 48. ...
Burgenland (Hungarian Årvidék, Lajtabánság, Várvidék, Croatian Gradišće, Slovenian GradiÅ¡Äansko) is the easternmost federal state or Bundesland of Austria. ...
Abroad, the count is approximated due to incomplete statistical records and naturalization but estimates suggest that there are around 2 million Croats living abroad. The largest emigrant groups are in western Europe: primarily Germany, where the emigrant community groups estimate around 450,000 people with direct Croatian ancestry. Italy, Sweden, United Kingdom etc follow. Naturalisation is the process whereby a person becomes a national of a nation, or a citizen of a country, other than the one of his birth. ...
Overseas, the Americas contain the largest Croatian emigration: the United States (409,458 in the 1990 census, mostly in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California) and Canada (southern Ontario), as well as smaller groups in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia. There is also notable Croat population in Australia (Perth, Melbourne, Sydney) and New Zealand as well as South Africa.
The foremost organization of the Croatian diaspora is the Croatian Fraternal Union. Look up Diaspora in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term diaspora (Ancient Greek διασποÏά, a scattering or sowing of seeds) is used (without capitalization) to refer to any people or ethnic population forced or induced to leave their traditional ethnic homelands, being dispersed throughout other parts of the world, and the...
The Croatian Fraternal Union Logo The Croatian Fraternal Union (Hrvatska bratska zajednica) is a fraternal benefit society of the Croatian diaspora based out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ...
It should be noted that the domestic population number includes a non-negligible amount of people who don't actually live in Croatia all year: instead, they live work in a nearby European country during large parts of the year, returning home for the holiday seasons (and the census, obviously).
History
 Tanais stone with the inscription "Horoatos" highlighted The origin of the Croat tribe before the great migration of the Slavs is uncertain. One theory suggests they are descended from ancient Persia (cf. Alans). The earliest mention of the Croatian name, Horoathos, can be traced on two stone inscriptions in Greek language and script, dating from around the year 200 AD, found in the seaport Tanais on the Azov sea, Crimea peninsula (near the Black Sea). Both tablets are kept in the Archeological museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Download high resolution version (425x603, 62 KB)photo of the Tanais stone containing the word for Croats, from German wikipedia (18:53, 18. ...
Download high resolution version (425x603, 62 KB)photo of the Tanais stone containing the word for Croats, from German wikipedia (18:53, 18. ...
Human migration denotes any movement of groups of people from one locality to another. ...
The Persians of Iran (which was named Persia until 1935) are an Iranian people who speak the Farsi dialect of Persian and often refer to themselves as ethnic Iranians as well. ...
The Alans or Alani were an Iranian nomadic group among the Sarmatian people, warlike nomadic pastoralists of mixed backgrounds, who spoke an Iranian language and shared, in a broad sense, a common culture. ...
Greek (Greek Ελληνικά, IPA – Hellenic) constitutes its own branch of the Indo-European languages. ...
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Sarmatian cataphract from Tanais. ...
The shallow Sea of Azov is clearly distinguished from the deeper Black Sea. ...
The Crimea (officially Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Russian transliteration: Avtonomnaya Respublika Krym, Russian: ÐÐ²Ñ‚Ð¾Ð½Ð¾Ð¼Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð ÐµÑпублика Крым, Ukrainian: Ðвтономна РеÑпубліка Крим, , pronounced cry-MEE-ah in English) is a peninsula and an autonomous republic of Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea. ...
Map of the Black Sea. ...
Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland...
In the 7th century, the Croat tribe moved from the area north of the Carpathians and east of the river Vistula (what was referred to as the White Croatia) and migrated into the western Dinaric Alps. Genetically, most Croats have a mixed genotype similar to other Slavs, but with the major set of genes being specific to a "Dinaric" subgroup probably inherited from pre-Slavic Croatia's and Bosnia's inhabitants. // Events Islam starts in Arabia, the Quran is written, and Syria, Iraq, Persia, North Africa and Central Asia convert to Islam. ...
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Length 1,047 km Elevation of the source 1,106 m Average discharge ? m³/s Area watershed 192,000 km² Origin Barania Góra, Beskidy Mouth Gdańsk Bay, Baltic Sea Basin countries Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Slovakia The Vistula (Polish: Wisła) is the longest river in Poland. ...
The Dinaric Alps or Dinarides are a mountain chain in southern Europe, spanning areas of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro and Albania. ...
Genetics (from the Greek genno γεννώ= give birth) is the science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms. ...
The Slavic peoples are the most numerous ethnic and linguistic body of peoples in Europe. ...
In physical anthropology, the Dinaric race is one of the Europid (White, Caucasoid) races, and it is endemic primarily to the Dinaric Alps (the western part of the Balkan Peninsula). ...
For the rest of the history of the Croats, please see history of Croatia. This is the history of Croatia. ...
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