They live primarily in the South Moravian Region, in the municipalities of Jevišovka, Dobré Pole and Nový Přerov.
[3] The ancestors of the Croats in the Czech Republic arrived in the first half of the 16th century at the invitation of the House of Liechtenstein from central Croatia, fleeing before the Ottoman Turks.
They believed that the colonization of the Croats started from the Croatian regions south of the Kupa and Petrova Gora, better known as Banska Krajina (present-day Banovina), was summarized by Adolf Turek.
Considering that they often used Czech and German in schools, churches, public administration, the grammar and vocabulary of the Moravian Croats did not remain untouched.
The older generation of Czech Croats preserved the language, culture, and customs by gathering in organizations and reading magazines in Croatian.