Croatian question

{{Short description|Issues regarding the status of Croats}} {{Multiple issues| {{more footnotes|date=June 2019}}{{more citations needed|date=June 2019}} {{Expand language|topic=|langcode=hr|date=April 2024}} }}

The '''Croatian question''' ({{Langx|hr|Hrvatsko pitanje}}) refers to a political, cultural, social and economical status of [[Croats]] in [[Austria-Hungary]], [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|SFR Yugoslavia]] and post-[[Dayton Agreement|Dayton]] [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]].

[[File:Banovina.png|thumb|Territory of the Banovina Croatia compared to present-day Croatia and neighbouring states.]]

The first steps towards Croat [[home rule]] were made in 1939 with the [[Cvetković–Maček Agreement]], creating the [[Autonomous province|autonomous]] [[Banovina of Croatia]]. This province, mostly coterminous with the former [[Sava Banovina|Sava]] and [[Littoral Banovina|Littoral Banovinas]] with the exception of a few other Croat-majority regions, lasted until [[invasion of Yugoslavia]] during the [[World War II in Yugoslavia|World War II]], with the [[Independent State of Croatia]] being established as a [[Nazi Germany|Nazi German]] [[List of World War II puppet states|puppet state]] 10 April 1941.

In post-WWII Yugoslavia, the Croatian [[national question]] was mostly resolved on 25 June 1991 with the [[Independence of Croatia|independence]] of the [[Croatia|Republic of Croatia]], from the territory of the constituent [[Socialist Republic of Croatia|SR Croatia]].

== Sources ==

* {{cite book|last=Banac|first=Ivo|title=The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ggjhCQAAQBAJ&q=ivo+banac+the+national+question+in+yugoslavia&pg=PP1|year=2015|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=9781501701931}}

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