Bulgarians in Croatia ( hr, Bugari Hrvatske, bg, Българи в Хърватия) are one of 22 national minorities in

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. According to the last census from 2011, there were 872

Bulgarians Bulgarians ( bg, българи, Bǎlgari, ) are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and the rest of Southeast Europe. Etymology Bulgarians derive their ethnonym from the Bulgars. Their name is not completely unders ...

living in Croatia, from which most of them lived in

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. Bulgarians are officially recognized as an autochthonous national minority, and as such, they elect a special representative to the

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, shared with members of eleven other national minorities.

Number of Bulgarians

2011 census

Notable people

Nikolaj Pešalov Nikolaj Pešalov ( bg, Николай Славеев Пешалов, Nikolay Slaveev Peshalov; born on May 30, 1970) is a Bulgarian-born Croatian Olympic and World former champion in weightlifting. During his long and successful career, Pe� ...

(b. 1970), weightlifter * Marianna Radev (1913–1973), contralto * Dubravka Ugrešić (1949–2023), writer, Bulgarian mother

External links

Bulgarians in Croatia

References

{{Bulgarian diaspora *