Burgenland Croatian Burgenland Croatian Burgenland Croatian ("Gradišćanskohrvatski jezik"; German: "Burgenlandkroatische Sprache"; Hungarian: "Gradišćei horvát nyelv") is a regional variety of the Chakavian dialect of Croatian spoken in Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia. Burgenland Croatian is recognized as a minority language in the Austrian state of Burgenland, where it is spoken by 19,412 people according to official reports (2001). Many of the Burgenland Croatian speakers in Austria also live in Vienna and Graz, due to the process of urbanization, which is mostly driven by the poor economic situation of large parts of Burgenland. Smaller Croatian minorities in western Hungary, southwestern
States of the Weimar Republic occupied by the last state premier. The names of these new "Reichsgaue" were sometimes different and there were some differences in borders. The former states of Burgenland and Vorarlberg were dissolved. The "Reichsgaue" were as follows: Subsequently, additional "Reichsgaue" were added as Germany invaded more European territories before and during World War II. These included: After World War I, the Saar Basin was occupied and governed jointly by the United Kingdom and France from 1920 to 1935 under a League of Nations mandate. After a plebiscite was held in 1935, the region was returned to Germany. In accordance with the