Savska Ves () is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Međimurje County Međimurje County (; ; ) is a triangle-shaped Counties of Croatia, county in the northernmost part of Croatia, roughly corresponding to the historical and geographical region of Međimurje (region), Međimurje. It is the smallest Croatian count ...

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. The village is part of the wider area of

Čakovec Čakovec (; ; ; ) is a city in Northern Croatia, located around north of Zagreb, the Croatian capital, and close to the borders with Slovenia and Hungary. Čakovec is both the county seat and the largest city of Međimurje County, the northernmo ...

, the county seat of Međimurje County. It is located next to the southern limits of the city, around 2 kilometres from its centre. It is also connected with the village of Strahoninec, which is a separate municipality. There are two streets in Savska Ves, one of them formed by the road that connects Čakovec with Totovec. The population of the village in the 2011 census was 1,217.

History

It is not certain when the village was established. However, it was most likely the village listed as ''Zawszkawecz'' on the list of settlements in the Čakovec area in 1478. In the 1857 census, the population of Savska Ves was 219. By the beginning of the 20th century, it grew to over 400. The village was already predominantly populated by

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at the time. In the 1910 census, it had a population of 446. It was part of the Čakovec district () of

Zala County Zala (, ; ; ) is an administrative county (Counties of Hungary, comitatus or ''vármegye'') in south-western Hungary. It is named after the Zala River. It shares borders with Croatia (Koprivnica–Križevci County, Koprivnica–Križevci and Me� ...

in the

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. In 1920, when the

Treaty of Trianon The Treaty of Trianon (; ; ; ), often referred to in Hungary as the Peace Dictate of Trianon or Dictate of Trianon, was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920), Paris Peace Conference. It was signed on the one side by Hungary ...

was signed, the village became part of the

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. In the 1921 census, it had a population of 493, which grew to 598 in the next census 10 years later. Between 1941 and 1945, it belonged to

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again, as the entire Međimurje region was annexed by the Hungarians at the time. After

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, the village became part of

within the

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. It had a population of 709 in the 1948 census. The population grew to over 1,000 by the 1980s. Following the independence of Croatia in 1991, a portion of the village was annexed to Strahoninec. Curiously, the population of Savska Ves in the 1991 and 2001 censuses was exactly the same – 1,238.

References

Populated places in Međimurje County {{Međimurje-geo-stub