Bulgarians of Croatia
Bulgarians of Croatia (Croatian: Bugari Hrvatske, Bulgarian: Българи в Хърватия) are one of 22 national minorities in Croatia. According to the last census from 2001, there was 331 Bulgarians living in Croatia, from which most of them lived 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
2001 census
| County |
Bulgarians |
Total percentage |
| City of Zagreb |
110 |
33,24% |
| Split-Dalmatia |
37 |
11,18% |
| Primorje-Gorski Kotar |
33 |
9,98% |
| Istria |
33 |
9,98% |
| Osijek-Baranja |
20 |
6,05% |
| Bjelovar Bilogora |
18 |
5,44% |
| Sisak-Moslavina |
12 |
3,63% |
| Zagreb |
11 |
3,33% |
| Vukovar-Syrmia |
10 |
3,03% |
| Brod-Posavina |
9 |
2,72% |
| Varaždin |
7 |
2,12% |
| Zadar |
7 |
2,12% |
| Šibenik-Knin |
6 |
1,82% |
| Koprivnica-Križevci |
3 |
0,91% |
| Virovitica Podravina |
3 |
0,91% |
| Dubrovnik Neretva |
3 |
0,91% |
| Međimurje |
3 |
0,91% |
| Krapina-Zagorje |
2 |
0,61% |
| Karlovac |
2 |
0,61% |
| Požega-Slavonia |
2 |
0,61% |
| Total |
331 |
100% |
| (2011 census) [1] |
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