As of 2009[update], Czech is officially used in one municipality and five other settlements in Croatia, according to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

Czechs also settled other parts of Croatia such as Gorski kotar, and bigger cities where they were praised as skilled workers and clerks, but were assimilated in two or three generations.

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, established after the First World War, was very amicable to the Czech minority.

[3] In Socialist, post World War II Yugoslavia Czechs enjoyed even greater rights, and more schools were opened.

Czechs are officially recognized as an autochthonous national minority, and as such, they, together with the Slovaks of Croatia, elect a special representative to the Croatian Parliament.

[4] In the elections of 2000, 2003, and 2007, the Czech and Slovak representative was Zdenka Čunhil from the Croatian Peasant Party.

Some Beseda's even have theater groups, and the Czech Union prints their weekly magazine called Jednota (Unity).