Novska is a town in the

Sisak-Moslavina County Sisak-Moslavina County ( hr, Sisačko-moslavačka županija) is a Croatian county in eastern Central Croatia and southwestern Slavonia. It is named after the city of Sisak and the region Moslavina just across the river Sava. According to 2021 ...

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. It is located in western part of the historic region of

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, between

Kutina Kutina is a town in central Croatia, the largest settlement in the hilly region of Moslavina, in the Sisak-Moslavina County. The town proper has a population of 13,735 (2011), while the total municipal population is 22,760. The settlement of Kut ...

and

Nova Gradiška Nova Gradiška is a town located in the Brod-Posavina County of Croatia, population 14,229 (2011). It is located in the historic region of Slavonia, near the border to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first word in the name means ''New'', and there ...

, linear distance southeast of the capital,

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Demographics

Novska has a total population of 13,518 in the following settlements: * Bair, population 6 * Borovac, population 273 * Brestača, population 913 * Brezovac, population 9 * Bročice, population 964 * Jazavica, population 398 *

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, population 433 * Kričke, population 23 * Lovska, population 9 * Nova Subocka, population 713 * Novi Grabovac, population 14 * Novska, population 7,028 *

Paklenica The Paklenica karst river canyon is a national park in Croatia. It is near Starigrad, northern Dalmatia, on the southern slopes of Velebit mountain, not far from Zadar. It contains two canyons, Mala (Small) and Velika (Big) Paklenica. Today the ...

, population 279 * Plesmo, population 87 * Popovac, population 10 * Rađenovci, population 2 * Rajčići, population 4 * Rajić, population 875 * Roždanik, population 262 * Sigetac, population 122 * Stara Subocka, population 502 * Stari Grabovac * Voćarica, population 199 In the 2011 census, 91.64% (12,388) of the population were

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and 4.74% (641) were

Serbs The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are the most numerous South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans in Southeastern Europe, who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history and language. The majority of Serbs live in their na ...

. In 1991 in the town lived 24,696 inhabitants, Croats 16,556 (67.03%), Serbs 5,402 (21.87%),

Yugoslavs Yugoslavs or Yugoslavians ( Bosnian and Croatian: ''Jugoslaveni'', Serbian and Macedonian ''Jugosloveni''/Југословени; sl, Jugoslovani) is an identity that was originally designed to refer to a united South Slavic people. It has b ...

675 (2.73%), others 2,063 (8.35%).

History

Before 1881, Novska was part of the

Austrian monarchy The Habsburg monarchy (german: Habsburgermonarchie, ), also known as the Danubian monarchy (german: Donaumonarchie, ), or Habsburg Empire (german: Habsburgerreich, ), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities ...

( Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia after the compromise of 1867), in the

Slavonian Military Frontier The Slavonian Military Frontier ( hr, Slavonska vojna krajina or ; german: Slawonische Militärgrenze; sr, Славонска војна крајина; hu, Szlavón határőrvidék) was a district of the Military Frontier, a territory in the ...

, Gradiskaner Regiment N°VIII. Between 1881 and 1918, in the

Požega County Požega County ( hr, Požeška županija; hu, Pozsega vármegye) was a historic administrative subdivision ('' županija'') of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. Croatia-Slavonia was an autonomous kingdom within the Lands of the Crown of Sai ...

of the Kingdom. During the Croatian War of Independence two separate mass murders of Serb civilians took place in the town. On 21 November 1991, four Serbs were tortured and killed. On 18 December 1991, four Serbs were shot with one managing to survive. In the first case, Croatian Army soldier Damir Vida Raguž was found guilty of war crimes in a first-instance verdict and sentenced to 20 years in prison, while the other accused, Željko Škledar was acquitted. The verdict was overturned however and following a re-trial, both were acquitted. In the second case, Željko Belina and Dejan Milić were sentenced by the Zagreb County Court to 10 and 9 years in prison, respectively, following a Supreme Court reversal of an earlier adjudication.

Transport and industry

The Croatian railway lines M103, M104 and M105 are connected with each other at the Novska railway station. All of them and the A3 motorway, which runs passes by south of the town, are part of Pan-European Corridor X. Novska is known for its steel elbow factory, Metaflex.

References

External links

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Public open university Novska
{{Authority control Cities and towns in Croatia Populated places in Sisak-Moslavina County Požega County Slavonia