Titular nation
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The titular nation is the single dominant
ethnic group in a particular state, typically after which the state was named. The term was first used by Maurice Barrès
in the late 19th century.
Soviet Union
The notion was used in the
Byelorussian SSR for Belarusians
.
For an ethnos to become a Soviet titular nation, it had to satisfy certain criteria in terms of the amount of population and compactness of its settlement. The language of a titular nation was declared an additional (after Russian) official language of the corresponding administrative unit.[citation needed]
In a number of cases, in certain highly multiethnic regions, such as
korenizatsiya" politics of the 1920s, according to which representatives of a titular nation were promoted to management positions. From the 1930s, Soviet policies led to continuing Russification of Indigenous peoples
in the USSR.
China
The
ethnic minority policy—see Autonomous administrative divisions of China
.
Yugoslavia
The federal republics of
Socialist Yugoslavia were perceived as nation-states of the constitutional peoples.[1] After the breakup of Yugoslavia, only Bosnia and Herzegovina
was not defined in its constitution as a nation-state of its titular nation.
See also
References
- ISBN 978-1-5099-0206-4.