Podgorač

Podgorač (Serbian Cyrillic: Подгорач, Hungarian: Pogorács) is a municipality in Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia.

Podgorač
Municipality
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Coordinates: 45.46°N 18.22°E / 45.46; 18.22
Country	Croatia
County	Osijek-Baranja
Government
• Mayor	Goran Đanić
Area [1]
• Municipality	130.8 km2 (50.5 sq mi)
• Urban	29.9 km2 (11.5 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]
• Municipality	2,455
• Density	19/km2 (49/sq mi)
• Urban	783
• Urban density	26/km2 (68/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (Central European Time)
Website	podgorac.hr

In the 2011 census, there were a total of 2,877 inhabitants in the municipality, in the following settlements:^[3]

• Bijela Loza, population 147
• Budimci, population 670
• Kelešinka, population 57
• Kršinci, population 126
• Ostrošinci, population 95
• Podgorač, population 866
• Poganovci, population 235
• Razbojište, population 283
• Stipanovci, population 398

In the same census, 81% of the population were Croats and 16.20% Serbs.^[4]

Colonist settlements of Ličani and Rudolfovac were established on the territory of the village municipality during the land reform in interwar Yugoslavia.^[5]

Politics

Minority councils

Directly elected minority councils and representatives are tasked with consulting the local or regional authorities where they advocate for minority rights and interests, integration into public life and participation in the management of local affairs.^[6] At the 2023 Croatian national minorities councils and representatives elections Roma and Serbs of Croatia each fulfilled legal requirements to elect 10 members municipal minority councils of the Podgorač Municipality.^[7]

References

1. Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata Q119585703.
2. "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
3. "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: Podgorač". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
4. "Population by Ethnicity, by Towns/Municipalities, 2011 Census: County of Osijek-Baranja". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
5. Šimončić-Bobetko, Zdenka (1990). "Kolonizacija u Hrvatskoj 1919.—1941. godine" [Colonization in Croatia Between 1919 and 1941]. Povijesni prilozi (in Croatian). 9 (9). Zagreb: Hrvatski institut za povijest: 160–162. ISSN 0351-9767.
6. "Manjinski izbori prve nedjelje u svibnju, kreću i edukacije". T-portal. 13 March 2023. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
7. "Informacija o konačnim rezultatima izbora članova vijeća i izbora predstavnika nacionalnih manjina 2023. XIV. OSJEČKO-BARANJSKA ŽUPANIJA" (PDF) (in Croatian). Državno izborno povjerenstvo Republike Hrvatske. 2023. p. 35. Retrieved 3 June 2023.