Majske Poljane is a village in central

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, in the municipality/town of Glina,

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. The village's

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are , the

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is 162 meters above

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. The village was severely affected by the

2020 Petrinja earthquake At 12:19 PM Central European Time, CET (11:19 UTC) on 29 December 2020, an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 (6.2 ) hit central Croatia, with an epicenter located roughly west-southwest of Petrinja. The maximum felt intensity was estimated at VIII ( ...

, with five deaths reported.

History

Culture

The village is within the

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. The Orthodox parish church, dedicated to the

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, stands on the hill above the village. The one-nave building with a semicircular chapel, high wooden cassette ceilings, vault decorated with figural and plant motifs, and the wooden bell tower, was built no later than 1820. It is very likely that its predecessor, the older wooden church, stood close by and higher up the hill. While the "new church" is a one-room

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type of church, it is very traditional in shape and construction of the ceiling and vaults, and is similar to the chapel in Gornje Selište near Glina. The church, a pearl of folk architecture, was damaged by an earthquake of 1909 and its iconostasis, inherited from the Glina's St. George's Church, was destroyed during

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. The extensive reconstruction and renovation work carried out on the church, which started in 1946, was only completed in 1989. The church is of great historical and architectural value.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, the village of Majske Poljane has 196 inhabitants. This represents 32.56% of its pre-

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population according to the 1991 census. Population by ethnicity
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Sights and events

* Celebration of the Feast of Transfiguration on 19 August * Monument to the Victims of Fascism - removed from the site and deposited into storage facilities in Glina based on the decision of the Glina Municipal Council dated 18 March 1997

Notable natives and residents

Đuro Kurepa Đuro Kurepa (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђуро Курепа, ; 16 August 1907 – 2 November 1993) was a Yugoslav and Serbian mathematician, university professor and academic. Throughout his life, Kurepa published over 700 articles, books, papers, and ...

(1907–1993), Yugoslav mathematician. * Svetozar Kurepa (1929–2010), Yugoslavian and Croatian mathematician whose main contributions were in the areas of

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and

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. *

Simeon Roksandić Simeon Roksandić (14 May 1874 – 12 January 1943) was a Serbian sculptor and academic, famous for his bronzes and fountains. He is frequently cited as one of the most renowned figures in Serbian and Yugoslavian sculpture. Life and work Roks ...

(1874–1943), a distinguished

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sculptor and academic, was also born in Majske Poljane.

References

External links

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Parohija Majske Poljane
{{Glina Populated places in Sisak-Moslavina County Glina, Croatia Serb communities in Croatia