Socialist Yugoslavia: National minorities

Last modified: 2004-11-13 by ivan sache
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• Status of the national minorities
• Albanian minority in Kosovo
• Bulgarian minority in south-eastern Serbia and eastern Macedonia
• German minority in Vojvodina and eastern Croatia
• Hungarian minority in Vojvodina and eastern Croatia
• Italian minority in Istria
• Polish minority in Croatia
• Romanian minority in eastern Vojvodina
• Ruthenian and Ukrainian minority in western Slavonia and Vojvodina
• Slovak minority in western Slavonia and Vojvodina
• Turkish minority in Sanžak and Macedonia

See also:

• Socialist Yugoslavia

Status of the national minorities

National minorities (narodnost) were those ethnical groups without statehood within Socialist Yugoslavia, as opposed to the five (later six) nations (narod) of Yugoslavia.

The minority census in Yugoslavia in 1981 was as follows:

Albanians	7.72 %
Bulgarians	0.16 %
Czechs	0.07 %
Hungarians	1.90 %