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Draž
Draž (, , sr-Cyrl, Драж) is a village and municipality in Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia. There are 2,767 inhabitants in the municipality. Geography The municipality of Draž is situated between border with Hungary in the north, border with Serbia in the east, municipality of Kneževi Vinogradi in the south, and municipality of Popovac in the south-west. The municipality of Draž includes the following settlements: *Draž (pop. 505) * Batina (pop. 879) * Duboševica (pop. 554) * Gajić (pop. 294) * Podolje (pop. 140) * Topolje (pop. 395) Demographics Ethnic groups in the municipality (2011 census): *1931 Croats (69.79%) *680 Hungarians (24.58%) *90 Serbs (3.25%) During the Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995), 1300 people were expelled from the municipality. Nearly all have returned since. Politics Minority councils Directly elected minority councils and representatives are tasked with consulting the local or regional authorities, advocating for minority rights an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podunavlje
Podunavlje is the name of the Danube river basin parts located in Croatia (Slavonia, Syrmia, and Baranya) and Serbia (Vojvodina, Belgrade and Eastern Serbia). Podunavlje is located on the southern edge of Pannonian Basin. In its wider meaning, the Croatian term refers to the area around the entire flow of the river Danube. Naming history In the first half of the 18th century, Sava-Danube ( Posavina-Podunavlje) section of the Habsburg Military Frontier existed in the area. Podunavlje segment of the Frontier comprised parts of southern Bačka and northern Syrmia including towns of Petrovaradin, Šid, Bačka Palanka, Bački Petrovac, Petrovaradinski Šanac (Novi Sad), and Titel. Between 1922 and 1929, Podunavlje Oblast was one of the administrative units of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. It included parts of Šumadija and Banat regions and its seat was in Smederevo. Between 1929 and 1941, one of the provinces of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was known as the Dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topolje, Osijek-Baranja County
Topolje (, sr-Cyrl, Топоље) is a settlement in the region of Baranja, Croatia. Administratively, it is located in the Draž municipality within the Osijek-Baranja County Osijek-Baranja County (, , ) is a Counties of Croatia, county in Croatia, located in northeastern Slavonia and Baranya (region), Baranja which is defined part of the Pannonian Plain. Its center is Osijek. Other towns include Đakovo, Našice, Val .... Its population is 473 people. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Topolje (Draz) Populated places in Osijek-Baranja County Baranya (region) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duboševica
Duboševica (, sr-Cyrl, Дубошевица) is a settlement in the region of Baranja, Croatia. Administratively, it is located in the Draž municipality within the Osijek-Baranja County Osijek-Baranja County (, , ) is a Counties of Croatia, county in Croatia, located in northeastern Slavonia and Baranya (region), Baranja which is defined part of the Pannonian Plain. Its center is Osijek. Other towns include Đakovo, Našice, Val .... Population is 690 people. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dubosevica Populated places in Osijek-Baranja County Baranya (region) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podolje
Podolje (, sr-Cyrl, Подоље) is a settlement in the region of Baranja, Croatia. Administratively, it is located in the Draž municipality within the Osijek-Baranja County. Population is 140 people as of 2011. See also *Osijek-Baranja County Osijek-Baranja County (, , ) is a Counties of Croatia, county in Croatia, located in northeastern Slavonia and Baranya (region), Baranja which is defined part of the Pannonian Plain. Its center is Osijek. Other towns include Đakovo, Našice, Val ... * Baranja References {{reflist Populated places in Osijek-Baranja County Baranya (region) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gajić
Gajić (, sr-Cyrl, Гајић) is a settlement in the region of Baranja, Croatia. Administratively, it is located in the Draž municipality within the Osijek-Baranja County Osijek-Baranja County (, , ) is a Counties of Croatia, county in Croatia, located in northeastern Slavonia and Baranya (region), Baranja which is defined part of the Pannonian Plain. Its center is Osijek. Other towns include Đakovo, Našice, Val .... Population is 294 people (2011). References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gajic Populated places in Osijek-Baranja County Baranya (region) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batina
Batina (, sr-Cyrl, Батина) is a port village on the right bank of the Danube () river in Baranja region, Baranja, Croatia. It developed into the local center of the northeastern part of Baranja, in the part of Bansko brdo hill where the slopes reach the Danube river. Geography Batina is located on the D212 road (Croatia), D212 state road connecting the village to the city of Osijek. The most important connection between Baranja and Bačka leads through the village, where the bridge ''Most 51. divizije'' was built over the Danube river in 1974. Before the bridge was built, transport was done by ferry. The bridge is also a state border crossing. Administratively, Batina is located in the Draž municipality within the Osijek-Baranja County, Osijek-Baranja county. Batina's elevation is 105 m. History In the book ''Hrvatski baranjski mjestopisi'' by Ante Sekulić, it is claimed that the settlement of Batina was known in Roman Times, Roman times, and was also recorded in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popovac, Osijek-Baranja County
Popovac (, sr-Cyrl, Поповац) is a village and municipality in Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia. There are 2,084 inhabitants in the municipality (2011 census). Popovac is an underdeveloped municipality, which is statistically classified as the Areas of Special State Concern (Croatia), First Category Area of Special State Concern by the Government of Croatia. Until the end of World War II, the majority of the inhabitants was Danube Swabians, Danube Swabian, also called locally as ''Stifolder'', because their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from Fulda (district). Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945-1948, as a result of the Potsdam Agreement. Popovac is known for its fish festival (fišijada), which is organized in September every year. Name Its name derived from the Slavic word "pop" ("priest" in English). In Hungarian language, Hungarian, the village is known as ''Baranyabán''. De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Areas Of Special State Concern (Croatia)
Areas of Special State Concern or ASSC () in Croatia are areas of relative underdevelopment compared to the rest of the country in which Croatian Government implements certain policies aimed at achieving balanced regional development. In addition to challenges faced by many other non-urban communities in Croatia, the ASSC areas face specific challenges which are a result of the 1991–1995 Croatian War of Independence, and include the return and reintegration of war refugees, lack of entrepreneurial capacity and support for business, destroyed or inadequate infrastructure, land under land-mines and insufficient social integration, social reintegration. Categories The Areas are subdivided into three categories: * The First Category is covering settlements directly on the state border which were Republic of Serbian Krajina, under the rebel control during the war and whose seat is less than 15 km away from the border and have less than 5,000 inhabitants according to the 1991 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarians Of Croatia
Hungarians are a recognized ethnic minority in Croatia. According to the 2011 census there are 14,048 people of Hungarian ethnicity living in Croatia (or 0.33% of total population). Around two thirds of them (8,249) live in Osijek-Baranja County in eastern Croatia, especially in the Croatian part of the Baranya region which borders Hungary to the north. There are also small Hungarian communities in other parts of the country, including areas in Bjelovar-Bilogora County in central Croatia where 881 people identify themselves as Hungarian. History Hungary and Croatia have a long history dating back to the dynastic crises that followed the death of king Dmitar Zvonimir in 1089. His widow Helen II supported her brother Ladislaus I of Hungary in his claim for the kingdom of Croatia amidst the political turmoil. Two years later, Ladislaus managed to seize power and proclaim his sovereignty over the Croatian kingdom,Ladislas I. (2009). In ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Retrieved June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian War Of Independence
The Croatian War of Independence) and (rarely) "War in Krajina" ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Рат у Крајини, Rat u Krajini) are used. was an armed conflict fought in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 between Croats, Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia—which had declared Independence of Croatia, independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY)—and the Serbs, Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and Serbs of Croatia, local Serb forces, with the JNA ending its combat operations by 1992. A majority of Croats supported Croatia's independence from Yugoslavia, while many ethnic Serbs living in Croatia, supported by Republic of Serbia (1992–2006), Serbia, opposed the secession and advocated Serb-claimed lands to be in a common state with Serbia. Most Serbs sought a new Serb state within a Yugoslav federation, including areas of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina with ethnic Serb majorities or significant minorities, and attempted to conquer as muc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbs Of Croatia
The Serbs of Croatia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", Срби у Хрватској, Srbi u Hrvatskoj) or Croatian Serbs ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", Хрватски Срби, Hrvatski Srbi) constitute the largest national minority in Croatia. The community is predominantly Eastern Orthodoxy in Croatia, Eastern Orthodox Christian by religion, as opposed to the Croats who are Catholic Church in Croatia, Catholic. In some regions of modern-day Croatia, mainly in southern Dalmatia, ethnic Serbs possibly have been present from the Early Middle Ages. Serbs from modern-day Serbia and Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia-Herzegovina started actively migrating to Croatia at a time when the Habsburg monarchy was engaged in a series of wars against the Ottoman Empire. Great Migrations of the Serbs, Several migration waves happened after 1538, when the Emperor Ferdinand I granted them the right to settle on the territory of the Military Frontier. In exchange for land and exempti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Šokci
Šokci ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Šokci, Шокци, , ; sh-Latn-Cyrl, label=, separator=" / ", Šokac, Шокац, sh-Latn-Cyrl, label=, separator=" / ", Šokica, Шокица; ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to historical regions of Baranya County (former), Baranya, Bačka, Slavonia and Syrmia. These regions today span eastern Croatia, southwestern Hungary, and northern Serbia. They primarily self-identify as a subgroup of Croats and therefore they are not considered a separate ethnicity in Croatia and elsewhere. Population Šokci are considered to be a native population of Slavonia and Syrmia in Croatia. The Croatian Bureau of Statistics does not record the Šokci as a separate ethnicity (2001). According to the 2011 census in Serbia, 607 people declared as ethnic Šokci. Outside of Slavonia and Syrmia, they live in the settlements of Bački Monoštor, Sonta, Sombor, Bački Breg in the Serbian Bácska, Bačka, and Hercegszántó in Hungary. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
