Original scientific paper
EMIGRATION OF ITALIANS AND GERMANS FROM CROATIA DURING AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Ivan CRKVENČIĆ
Abstract
Croatia is a country of constant emigration which, with varying
intensities, has lasted from the nineteenth century to the present.
According to some estimates, during the period in which reliable
statistical records have been kept, i.e. since 1880 up to 1991,
approximately 1.2 million people have emigrated from the territory
of today's Republic of Croatia, mostly Croats. Among the
periods of more intense emigration from Croatia, the 1943-
1948 period is particularly significant, for during these five years,
over 250,000 people emigrated from Croatia, most of them
Italians and Germans. This is the largest exodus of non-Croatian
inhabitants from the territory of the Republic of Croatia. Relatively
little has been written about this emigration of Italians and
Germans, and this is thus the subject of this paper. The paper is
limited to a review of the origins, subsequent immigration, spatial
distribution and emigration of Italians and Germans based
exclusively on data from population censuses.
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Hrčak ID:
20296
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Publication date:
28.2.2000.
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