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Austrians of Croatia

Field	Value
group	Austrians of Croatia
Austrijanci u Hrvatskoj
population	297
languages	GermanCroatian
religions	Roman Catholicism
related	Austrians, Austrian diaspora

Austrijanci u Hrvatskoj

Austrians of Croatia are officially recognized as a minority in the Republic of Croatia, and therefore have their own permanent seat in the Croatian Parliament.

History

Austrians first began settling in Croatia as military personnel after the Croatian nobles met in Cetin to elect Ferdinand I, Archduke of Austria as their king, and in return the Habsburgs would defend Croatia from the Ottoman invasion. This led to the creation of the Military Frontier (Vojna Krajina, German Militaergrenze) within Croatian territory which would be ruled directly from Vienna's military headquarters. This led to an increase of Austrian and other settlers and military elite within the Military Frontier. In 1815, the Habsburgs finally secured possession of Dalmatia and Istria after the fall of Venice. In time the Austrian elite began flocking to the Adriatic for holiday and sunbathing. Towns such as Opatija gained reputations as health resorts and became populated by mainly Austrian season-goers.

Geographic representation

According to the 2011 census, there are 297 people who consider themselves Austrians, with the largest group (35% of Croatia's ethnic Austrians) residing in Zagreb.

County	Number of
Austrians	Percent of
total
City of Zagreb	104	35.0%
Primorje-Gorski Kotar	36	12.1%
Istria	32	10.8%
Osijek-Baranja	23	7.7%
Split-Dalmatia	21	7.1%
Zadar	15	5.0%
Varaždinska	12	4.0%
Zagreb	11	3.7%
Međimurje	10	3.4%

Notable individuals

Gordon Schildenfeld, Croatian football player
Diana Budisavljević, humanitarian

References

"Stanovništvo prema narodnosti, popisi 1971. - 2011.".
[https://archive.org/stream/southernslavques00seto/southernslavques00seto_djvu.txt R. W. SETON -WATSON:The southern Slav question and the Habsburg Monarchy page 18]
Milan Kruhek: Cetin, grad izbornog sabora Kraljevine Hrvatske 1527, Karlovačka Županija, 1997, Karlovac
[https://books.google.com/books?id=SD_Vr3CTEooC&q=The+Habsburg+Monarchy,+1618-1815&pg=PA15 Charles W. Ingrao:The Habsburg monarchy, 1618–1815 page 15]
[https://www.dzs.hr/ Croatia Census 2011]

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