Albanians in Croatia

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The Albanians in Croatia ( Albanian  Shqiptarët në Kroaci , Croatian Albanci u Hrvatskoj ) are a minority recognized in the Croatian constitution . They are divided into two groups: In addition to ethnic Albanians from the former Yugoslavia (colloquially also called Šiptari ), predominantly from Kosovo and North Macedonia , there are also the long -established Arbanasi .

history

In the Middle Ages there was a large Albanian community in Ragusa (today's Dubrovnik ). In a document from there from the year 1285, the sentence Audivi unam vocem clamantem in monte in lingua albanesca ("I heard a calling voice from the mountains in Albanian") is passed down. This is the oldest written mention of the Albanian language itself.

Arbanasi

The Arbanasi (Albanian also Arbëreshët e Zarës "Albanians from Zadar ") are a small group of people in Croatia that still exists today. Ethnically speaking, they are Catholic Albanians who fled from the Ottomans to the Croatian coast between 1726 and 1733 , where they are still present today. In the city of Zadar they founded their own district named after them, which still exists today. The Arbanasi traditionally speak a Gegic dialect of Albanian .

The originally Albanian residents of the Catholic faith of Peroj (Albanian Përrua ) near Pula , who fled from the Ottomans in 1657, have given up their Albanian nationality.

Demographics

The 2011 census shows that 17,513 Albanians were living in Croatia at the time. That corresponds to 0.41% of the population. In 2001 the proportion of 15,082 people was only 0.34%.

Of these, 9,594 (54.8%) are Muslims and 7,109 (40.6%) are Catholics . 17 belong to other Christian denominations and the remaining 793 (4.5%) are partly atheists , partly agnostics , do not give any information on religion or belong to other religions.

Albanians are mainly found in Istria (2,393), Dalmatia (1,025), Zadar (908) and in the north of the Croatian coast (2,410) as well as in the capital Zagreb (4,292). Others live in smaller numbers all over Croatia.

politics

In the Croatian parliament, the Sabor , five seats are reserved for ethnic minorities, including the Albanian.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Constitution of the Republic of Croatia (consolidated text). Historical Foundations. In: Croatian Parliament. Archived from the original on April 19, 2016 ; accessed on May 30, 2016 (English).
  2. ^ Robert Elsie : The earliest references to the existence of the Albanian language . In: Journal of Balkanology . Berlin 1991, p. 101-105 ( elsie.de [PDF]).
  3. ↑ Dejan Djokić: Yugoslavism: Histories of a Failed Idea, 1918-1992 . London 2003, p. 312 ( google.de ).
  4. ^ Nancy C. Dorian: Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death . 1989, p. 209 ( google.de ).
  5. ↑ http://www.grad-zadar.hr/mjesni-odbori-81/
  6. ^ Franz Miklosich in: Albanische Forschungen, Vienna 1870, p. 3
  7. ↑ http://www.dzs.hr/Eng/censuses/census2011/results/htm/E01_01_04/e01_01_04_RH.html
  8. ↑ http://www.dzs.hr/Hrv/censuses/Census2001/Popis/H01_02_02/H01_02_02.html
  9. ↑ http://www.dzs.hr/Eng/censuses/census2011/results/htm/E01_01_12/E01_01_12.html
  10. ↑ http://www.dzs.hr/Eng/censuses/census2011/results/htm/E01_01_04/e01_01_04_RH.html
  11. ^ The Constitutional Act on The Rights of National Minorities in the Republic of Croatia. (PDF) In: Sabor. June 18, 2010, archived from the original on May 23, 2016 ; accessed on April 3, 2016 .