Petlovac

Municipality in Osijek-Baranja, Croatia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Petlovac (Hungarian: Baranyaszentistván, German: Sanktivan, Serbian Cyrillic: Петловац)[3] is a village and municipality in the western part of Baranja, which comprise the northern part of Osijek-Baranja County in Croatia. Petlovac is underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as the First Category Area of Special State Concern by the Government of Croatia.[4]

Country Croatia
Elevation
90 m (300 ft)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
Postal codes
31321 Petlovac
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Petlovac is located in Osijek-Baranja County
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Coordinates: 45°45′31″N 18°31′41″E
Country Croatia
County Osijek-Baranja
Government
 • Municipal mayorMilan Knežević
Area
[1]
93.6 km2 (36.1 sq mi)
 • Urban
17.6 km2 (6.8 sq mi)
Elevation
90 m (300 ft)
Population
 (2021)[2]
1,874
 • Density20.0/km2 (51.9/sq mi)
 • Urban
532
 • Urban density30.2/km2 (78.3/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal codes
31321 Petlovac
Area code(+385) 31
Websitepetlovac.hr
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Until the end of World War II, the majority of the inhabitants was Danube Swabian, also called locally as Stifolder, because their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from Fulda (district).[5] 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.[6]

Name

Its name derived from the word "petao" (which means "rooster" in English). The village had different names in history. During Hungarian rule, it was called Sent Ištvan (Saint Stephen), and German settlers named it Blumendorf, which means Village of Flowers.[7]

Municipality of Petlovac

Population

Population data graph 1857.-2011.[8]
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Sources:Croatian Bureau of Statistics publications

Municipality of Petlovac has 2,405 inhabitants (2011 census), including: Archived 20 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine

Geography

It is located between border with Hungary in the north-west, Baranja municipalities of Beli Manastir and Jagodnjak in the east and Slavonia region in the south-west.

The municipality of Petlovac include following settlements:

Politics

Minority councils

Directly elected minority councils and representatives are tasked with consulting tasks for the local or regional authorities in which they are advocating for minority rights and interests, integration into public life and participation in the management of local affairs.[9] At the 2023 Croatian national minorities councils and representatives elections Hungarians, Roma and Serbs of Croatia each fulfilled legal requirements to elect 10 members municipal minority councils of the Petlovac Municipality but the elections for Serb council were not held due to the lack of candidates.[10]

Petlovac (settlement)

History

Till 1991. part of settlement was Zeleno Polje which is now independent settlement.

Population

Population data graph 1857.-2011.[11]
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Sources:Croatian Bureau of Statistics publications

Ethnic composition, 1991. census

Petlovac
1991
total: 1,012
  1. Croats 843 (83.3%)
  2. Serbs 51 (5.03%)
  3. Yugoslavs 37 (3.65%)
  4. Hungarians 25 (2.47%)
  5. Slovenes 11 (1.08%)
  6. Montenegrins 7 (0.69%)
  7. Germans 5 (0.49%)
  8. ethnic Muslims 1 (0.09%)
  9. ethnically undeclared 15 (1.48%)
  10. unknown 17 (1.67%)

Austria-Hungary 1910. census

Petlovac
Population by ethnicityPopulation by religion
total: 962
  1. Germans 927 (96.4%)
  2. Hungarians 28 (2.91%)
  3. Serbs 4 (0.41%)
  4. others 3 (0.31%)
total: 962
  1. Roman Catholics 944 (98.1%)
  2. jewish 10 (1.03%)
  3. eastern orthodox 5 (0.51%)
  4. calvinists 3 (0.31%)

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