Group
Croats (South Slavs)
Croats (Croatian: Hrvati) are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group at the crossroads of Central Europe, Southeast Europe, and the Mediterranean.
Croats mainly live in homeland Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries Serbia and Slovenia.
Likewise, Croats are an officially recognized minority in Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Slovakia.
Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have migrated throughout the world, and established a notable Croatian diaspora.
In Western Europe exist larger communities in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, and Italy.
Outside Europe, there are even more significant Croatian communities in the United States, Canada, Chile, Argentina, and Australia.Croats are noted for their cultural diversity, which has been influenced by a number of other neighboring cultures through the ages.
The strongest influences came from Central Europe and the Mediterranean where, at the same time, Croats have made their own contribution.
The Croats are predominantly Roman Catholic by religion.
The Croatian language is an official language in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is a recognized minority language within Croatian autochthonous communities and minorities in Montenegro, Austria (Burgenland), Italy (Molise), Romania (Caraşova, Lupac) and Serbia (Vojvodina).Contemporary scholarship views the rise of "Croats" as an autochthonous, Dalmatian response to the demise of the Avar khanate and the encroachment of Frankish and Byzantine Empires into northern Dalmatia.
They appear to have been based around Nin and Klis, down to the Cetina and south of Liburnia.
Here, concentrations of the "Old Croat culture" abound, marked by some very wealthy warrior burials dating to the ninth century CE.
Member Cities
- Alba Iulia Alba Romania Location
- Belgrade > Beograd Serbia Serbia Location
- Bihac Bosnia & Herzegovina Location
- Biograd Zadar-Knin Croatia Location
- Brno Brnensky Kraj Czech Republic Location
- Budapest Budapest Hungary Location
- Cavtat > Epidaurus Dubrovnik-Neretva Croatia Location
- Dubrovnik Dubrovnik-Neretva Croatia Location
- Duklja > Doclea > Zeta Montenegro Montenegro Location
- Durrës Durrës Albania Location
- Esztergom Komarom-Esztergom Hungary Location
- Karakorum Arhangay Mongolia Location
- Klis Fortress Split-Dalmatia Croatia Location
- Knin Zadar-Knin Croatia Location
- Kotor Montenegro Montenegro Location
- Kraków Krakow Poland Location
- Ljubljana Slovenia Location
- Makarska Split-Dalmatia Croatia Location
- Melk Niederösterreich Austria Location
- Mór Fejer Hungary Location
- Naum Lika-Senj Croatia Location
- Nin Croatia Location
- Ohrid Macedonia Location
- Opatija Primorje-Gorski Kotar Croatia Location
- Osijek Osijek-Baranja Croatia Location
- Petrova Gora > Mount Gvozd Karlovac Croatia Location
- Pliska > Shumen > Sumen Varna Bulgaria Location
- Pola > Pula Istria Croatia Location
- Prague > Praha Hlavni mesto Praha Czech Republic Location
- Pressburg > Bratislava Bratislavsky Slovakia Location
- Prozor Bosnia & Herzegovina Location
- Pákozd Fejér Hungary Location
- Rab Primorje-Gorski Kotar Croatia Location
- Ragusa > Dubrovnik Dubrovnik-Neretva Croatia Location
- Ras > Stari Ras Serbia Serbia Location
- Salonae > Split Split-Dalmatia Croatia Location
- Sarajevo Bosnia & Herzegovina Location
- Schwechat Niederösterreich Austria Location
- Sibenik Sibenik-Knin Croatia Location
- Sirmium > Sremska Mitrovica Serbia Serbia Location
- Sisak > Siscia Sisak-Moslavina Croatia Location
- Skopje Macedonia Location
- Skradin Sibenik-Knin Croatia Location
- Sofia > Sofija > Serdica Grad Sofiya Bulgaria Location
- Solin Split-Dalmatia Croatia Location
- Spalato > Split Split-Dalmatia Croatia Location
- Split Split-Dalmatia Croatia Location
- Székesfehérvár Fejer Hungary Location
- Trogir > Traù Split-Dalmatia Croatia Location
- Vienna > Wien Wien Austria Location
- Vrana Zadar-Knin Croatia Location
- Zadar Zadar-Knin Croatia Location
- Zagreb Grad Zagreb Croatia Location
- Zara > Zadar Zadar-Knin Croatia Location
- Zenica Bosnia & Herzegovina Location