Bulgarians in Croatia

Ethnic group

Bulgarians in CroatiaTotal 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, most of them 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

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Formal name of Croatia | Year | Number of Bulgarians

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part of Yugoslavia | 1931 | 606
People's Republic of Croatia | 1948 | 637
1953 | 464
1961 | 593
Socialist Republic of Croatia | 1971 | 676
1981 | 441
Republic of Croatia | 1991 | 458
2001 | 331
2011 | 350
(Croatian Bureau of Statistics) [1][3]

## 2011 census

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County  | Bulgarians  | Total percentage

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City of Zagreb | 120 | 42.86%
Split-Dalmatia | 48 | 13.71%
Istria | 34 | 9.71%
Osijek-Baranja | 26 | 7.43%
Primorje-Gorski Kotar | 24 | 6.86%
Zagreb | 16 | 4.57%
Bjelovar Bilogora | 12 | 3.43%
Brod-Posavina | 10 | 2.86%
Zadar | 10 | 2.86%
Varaždin | 9 | 2.57%
Šibenik-Knin | 8 | 2.29%
Vukovar-Syrmia | 7 | 2.00%
Sisak-Moslavina | 6 | 1.71%
Karlovac | 5 | 1.43%
Dubrovnik Neretva | 3 | 0.86%
Požega-Slavonia | 3 | 0.86%
Virovitica-Podravina | 3 | 0.86%
Lika-Senj | 2 | 1.57%
Krapina-Zagorje | 1 | 0.29%
Međimurje | 1 | 0.29%
Total | 350 | 100%
(2011 census) [4]

## Notable people

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* Nikolaj Pešalov (b. 1970), weightlifter
* Marianna Radev (1913–1973), contralto
* Dubravka Ugrešić (1949–2023), writer, Bulgarian mother

## See also

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* Bulgaria–Croatia relations
* Bulgarian diaspora
* Ethnic groups in Croatia

## External links

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* Bulgarians in Croatia

## References

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1. ^ a b "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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