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Lekenik is a
Lekenik is a village
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and a municipality
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in central Croatia
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, anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland")
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, located between Sisak and Velika Gorica
Velika Gorica (; meaning "Great Vineyard/Forest") is the largest and most populous city in Zagreb County, Croatia. According to the 2011 census the city itself has a population of 31,341, while the municipality has a population of 63,517 inhabita ...
in the lowland region of Turopolje.
Norman Jewison
Norman Frederick Jewison (born July 21, 1926) is a retired Canadian film and television director, producer, and founder of the Canadian Film Centre.
He has directed numerous feature films and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best ...
chose Lekenik to represent Anatevka for the 1971 film '' Fiddler on the Roof'', after visiting other sites in Austria, Canada, and Romania. The film ends with the credit: "Our thanks to the people of the villages of Lekenik and Mala Gorica and the city of Zagreb
Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slov ...
, Yugoslavia."''Fiddler on the Roof'' Special Edition DVD (2004)
Population
The population of Lekenik is 1,857, with 6,170 people in the municipality, notably in larger villages like Pešćenica (915),Letovanić
Letovanić is a village in Croatia, placed in Lekenik municipality at the river Kupa
The Kupa () or Kolpa ( or ; from la, Colapis in Roman times; hu, Kulpa) river, a right tributary of the Sava, forms a natural border between north-west Cr ...
(539), Donji Vukojevac (468), and Dužica (395). It is known by SOS Children village, larger than village in Ladimirevci; two of them in Croatia. Absolute majority are Croats
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at 97%.
Media
RTL Radio—Localradio station
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