Croats in Slovakia

The Croats in Slovakia ( kroat. Hrvati u Slovačkoj ) are an ethnic minority who is resident in Slovakia since the 16th century. They are part of the Burgenland Croats in the broader sense and speak Burgenland-Croatian dialects. According to the company, there are still some 3,000 Croats in Slovakia, in the census of 2001, 890 people have known about this people group. They live in five villages near the capital, Bratislava, contrary to the March Field Croats west of March, which no longer exists de facto since the 19th century.

Settlement area and language

Today Croats live in five villages, all located in or near the capital, Bratislava: Devínska Nová Ves ( kroat. Devinsko Novo Selo ) on the northwestern edge and three villages south of the Danube: Čunovo ( Čunovo ) Jarovce (Hrvatski Jandrof ) and Rusovce ( Rosvar ). These four municipalities since 1972 parts of Bratislava. Chorvátsky coarse / coarse Hrvatski located 15 km north-east of Bratislava.

The spoken in Slovakia dialects all belong to the Burgenland-Croatian. South of the Danube is called the Haci dialect, which is also found in northern Burgenland and Hungary, in Devinska Nova Ves own čakavischen dialect and in Chorvátsky Grob a kajkawischen dialect.

History

The Croatian -born population Slovakia settled in the course of the 16th century. It is closely related to the Croatian minority in Burgenland and southern Moravia. Only at the beginning of the 20th century, the Croats were separated in Slovakia by the new borders of Hungary and Austria of their population in the newly established Croatian Burgenland. In the interwar period only Devínska Nová Ves and Chorvátsky Grob lay on Slovak territory, 1947 followed by the villages south of the Danube. The Croats of these three villages have preserved their cultural heritage and long preserved.

Also, to the Slovak town of Trnava settled during the 16th century a large number of Croats. Here sat by the Slovak environment and the linguistic similarity of the assimilation process more quickly. Until the 20th century, the Croatian -born population remained predominantly located in the towns of Chorvátsky Grob ( kroat. Hrvatski coarse ) and Šenkvice. Under the communist policy of Czechoslovakia and later Czechoslovakia the use of the Croatian language was not permitted in cultural associations and church services. The Croatian minority in the villages of Chorvátsky Grob and Šenkvice maintain close relations with the Croatian town of Hrvatska Kostajnica from their ancestors emigrated more than 400 years ago.