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CULTURAL REVITALIZATION OF THE ZALA (POMURJE) CROATS IN HUNGARY

Margit Bernadett Vuk orcid.org/0009-0001-5089-3092 ; Ministarstvo znanosti, obrazovanja i sporta Republike Hrvatske *

* Dopisni autor.

Sažetak

Today, there are 13 recognized minority communities in the Republic of Hungary, among them Croats, who live in a geographically dispersed area. A greater number is present in 8 counties: Baranya, Zala, Vas, Győr-Moson-Sopron, Bács-Kiskun, Pest, Somogy and Fejér. However, due to migration, today they are present in almost all counties. Most groups of Croats immigrated between the 15th and 18th centuries.
Researchers divide them into seven groups, namely: Burgenland Croats, Pomurje Croats, Podravina Croats, Bosniaks, Šokci, Bunjevci and Rascians. The subject of this research are the Pomurje Croats who live in Zala County and their cultural life at the turn of the 21st century. The Pomurje Croats live in settlements along the Mura river and speak the Kajkavian dialect of the Croatian language. While in the 19th century
and the first half of the 20th century, the rights of national and ethnic minorities included mainly language rights and the right to education, in the second half of the 20th century, especially at the turn of the 21st century, broad cultural and political rights of minority communities are ensured. During the period of democratic changes
in Hungary, that is, from the 1990s until today, important laws and regulations were passed that could guarantee their cultural development, and therefore the cultural development and revitalization of Pomurje Croats. The goal of the research is to use field research to show the rich cultural life of the Pomurje Croats, which is aimed at
preserving the Croatian linguistic and cultural identity. Cultural institutions and cultural events contribute to the preservation and development of national consciousness, the value of cultural heritage and the native Croatian language. Without them, the cultural revitalization of Pomurje Croats would not have been
possible. Croatian minority self-government units together with the civil sector contribute to the cultural revitalization of Zala Croats in Hungary.

Ključne riječi

assimilation, Croatian minority self-government units, Croatian civil organizations, Croatian identity, cultural programs, cultural revitalization

Hrčak ID:

343967

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/343967

Datum izdavanja:

15.9.2022.

Posjeta: 391 *