Romani people in Croatia

Romani people in Croatia
Romi u Hrvatskoj
	Romani women wearing traditional dresses and their children near Zagreb in 1941
Total population
	17,980 (2021 census);
Regions with significant populations
	Međimurje, Osijek-Baranja, Sisak-Moslavina County and Zagreb
Languages
	Majority:; Croatian, Romanian (Boyash dialect); Minority:; Balkan Romani; Others:; Albanian
Religion
	Catholicism (49%); Sunni Islam (30%); Eastern Orthodoxy (14%)
Related ethnic groups
	Roma in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Roma in Serbia and Roma in Hungary

There have been Romani people in Croatia for more than 600 years and they are concentrated mostly in the northern regions of the country.

A considerable number of Romani refugees in Croatia are from the ethnic conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[2]

There are more than 120 Romani minority NGOs in Croatia.^[3] One of the most prominent is Croatian Roma Union and Alliance of Roma in the Republic of Croatia "Kali Sara".

^ "Census of population, households and dwellings in 2021 – population of Republic of Croatia". Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 31 January 2023. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
^ "Ured vlade za nacionalne manjine-Obilježja Roma u RH". Archived from the original on 2013-02-16. Retrieved 2013-03-09.
^ "Ured za ljudska prava i prava nacionalnihmanjina-Romi". Ured za ljudska prava i prava nacionalnihmanjina. Archived from the original on 2013-12-24. Retrieved 2013-04-27.

Romi u Hrvatskoj
Romani women wearing traditional dresses and their children near Zagreb in 1941
Total population
17,980 (2021 census)^[1]
Regions with significant populations
Međimurje, Osijek-Baranja, Sisak-Moslavina County and Zagreb
Languages
Majority: Croatian, Romanian (Boyash dialect) Minority: Balkan Romani Others: Albanian
Religion
Catholicism (49%) Sunni Islam (30%) Eastern Orthodoxy (14%)
Related ethnic groups
Roma in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Roma in Serbia and Roma in Hungary