Turks in Croatia
Total population | |
---|---|
367 (2011 census)[1] est. 2,000[2] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Primorje-Gorski Kotar County | 67 |
City of Zagreb | 65 |
Istria County | 57 |
Split-Dalmatia County | 24 |
Brod-Posavina County | 19 |
Languages | |
Turkish, Croatian | |
Religion | |
Sunni Islam |
Turks of Croatia (Croatian: Turci u Hrvatskoj; Turkish: Hırvatistan Türkleri) are one among 22 recognised national minorities in Croatia. According to the 2011 census, there were 367 Turks living in Croatia, most of which most lived in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.
Turks compose approximately 0.001% of the total population. The majority of Croatian Turks are Sunni Muslims, and make up 0.5% of Croatia's Muslim population (56,777 Muslims in total).
Culture
In the Independent State of Croatia, the Croatian Muslim Printing House issued a magazine in Turkish language intended for the Turkish public, the European turkologists and those in the Independent State of Croatia who spoke Turkish language. The magazine was called The East and the West: the Cultural, Economic, Social and Political Magazine (Turkish: Doğu ve Batı. Kültür, iktisat, sosyal ve siyasi mecmuası). It was issued between 6 April 1943 and 15 August 1944. It was the first magazine in Turkish language on the territory of the present-day Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and second on the territory of the former Yugoslavia.[3]
Number of Turks through history
Official name of Croatia | Year | Number of Turks |
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- | 1931 | 186 |
![]() | 1948 | 13 |
1953 | 276 | |
1961 | 2,710 | |
![]() | 1971 | 221 |
1981 | 279 | |
![]() | 1991 | 320 |
2001 | 300 | |
2011 | 367 | |
(Croatian Bureau of Statistics)[1][4] |
See also
References
Notes
- 1 2 "Stanovništvo prema narodnosti, popisi 1971. - 2011." (in Croatian). Retrieved 21 December 2012.
- ↑ Zaman. "Altepe'den Hırvat Müslümanlara moral". Retrieved 2011-09-09.
- ↑ Vlašić 5 December 2013.
- ↑ Population of Croatia 1931-2001
Journals
- Vlašić, Anđelko (5 December 2013). "Doğu ve Batı: hrvatski list na turskom jeziku (1943. – 1944.)". Behar. Kulturno društvo Bošnjaka Hrvatske Preporod (115). Retrieved 12 June 2015.