Major Ethnic Groups
Portugal:
Portuguese 98.3% Cape Verdean 0.2% Brazilian 0.2% English 0.1% Spain Castilian Spanish 74.4% Catalan 16.9% Galician 6.4% Basque 1.6% Italy Italian 92% Romanian 1.81% North African 1.07% Albanian 0.77% Asian 1.1% Albania Albanian 82.6% Greek 0.9% Andorra Andorran 49% Spanish 24.6 % Portuguese 14.3% French 3.9% Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosniak 50.1% Serb 30.8% Croat 15.4% Croatia Croat 90.4% Serb 4.4% Greece Greek 93% Kosovo Albanians 92.9% Bosniaks 1.6% Serbs 1.5% Turks 1.1% Ashkali 0.9% Egyptian 0.7% Gorani 0.6% Roma 0.5% Macedonia Macedonian 64.2% Albanian 25.2% Turkish 3.9% Roma 2.7% Serb 1.8% Malta Maltese Montenegro Montenegrin 45% Serbian 28.7% Bosniak 8.7% Albanian 4.9% Muslim 3.3% Roma 1% Croat 1% San Marino Sammarinese Italian Serbia Serb 83.3% Hungarian 3.5% Romany 2.1% Bosniak 2% Slovenia Slovene 83.1% Serb 2% Croat 1.8% Bosniak 1.1% Vatican City Italian Swiss |
Southern Europe is diverse, with many minor ethnic groups such as; Romanian, Turkish, Egyptian, and Gorani. This region is made up of mostly smaller, less populated countries like Macedonia with only 2.1 million people, and much bigger and densely populated countries, for instance Italy with around 60.6 million people and Spain with around 43.3 million people, thus accounting for the vast percentage of Italians.
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The majority of the population is of the same ethnicity as its country. The backlash of Romanians and Roma immigrants began in October 2007 when an Italian woman named Giovanna Reggiani was murdered in Rome by a young Romanian. Attacks were launched on Roma camps for the following months. In Italy, the citizens of Southern Tyrol do not feel negatively about being part of Italy since they were once part of Austria, until 1919, when the citizens were given a choice to either stay in Southern Tyrol and change to the Italian language or to move to Germany. Some active separatist movements in this region includes Albania, where Greeks proposed an unification with Greece, the Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina proposes a Republic Srpska, and in Montenegro, Albanians proposed an unification with Albania.
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