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Croats stopped the Ottoman advance in Croatia at the battle of Sisak in 1593, 100 years after the defeat at Krbava field, and the short Long Turkish War ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok in 1606, after which Croatian classes tried unsuccessfully to have their territory on the Military Frontier restored to rule by the Croatian Ban, managing ...
The largest community outside Croatia are the Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the constituent nations of that country, amounting to about 545,000. The Croatian diaspora outside Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina amounts to close to a million elsewhere in Europe, and to about 1.7 million overseas.
[8] [9] Croatia started advancing from the first stage of the demographic transition in the late 18th and early 19th centuries (depending on where in Croatia is being discussed). [10] Croatia is in the fourth or fifth stage of the demographic transition. [11] An explanation for the population decrease in the 1990s is the Croatian War of ...
The Croatian language is Croatia's official language, but the languages of constitutionally-recognised minorities are officially used in some local government units. [81] [97] Croatian is the native language identified by 96% of the population. [98]
Standard Croatian is the official language of the Republic of Croatia, [309] and has been an official language of the European Union since Croatia's accession in 2013. [ 310 ] [ 311 ] Croatian replaced Latin as the official language of the Croatian government in the 19th century. [ 312 ]
Many also settled in factory towns and farming areas in Midwestern states such as Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. For most of the single men, the stay was only temporary. Once they had saved enough money, many Croatian men returned to Croatia. However, those who did choose to stay found permanent residence. [13] [15] [17]
Some sources indicate that Croatia has 67 inhabited islands, [4] counting those that have a settlement, [1] but 20 of those have lost all of their permanent population as a result of the population decline occurring throughout the Croatian islands due to insufficient economic activity. [5]
Haplogroup I among Croats from Croatia is around 43.5%, [18] while in Šokci, a subgroup of Croats from eastern Croatia, is between 44% and 50% of the same haplogroup. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] It is divided in two major subdivisions – subclade I2 (37.7%), typical for the populations of the Balkans and Eastern Europe, and I1 (5.8%), typical for the ...