Đurđenovac

Đurđenovac (Hungarian: Gyurgyenovác) is a municipality in Slavonia, in the Osijek-Baranja County of Croatia.

Đurđenovac
Municipality
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Coordinates: 45.54°N 18.05°E / 45.54; 18.05
Country	Croatia
County	Osijek-Baranja
Government
• Mayor	Hrvoje Topalović
Area [1]
• Municipality	116.4 km2 (44.9 sq mi)
• Urban	7.2 km2 (2.8 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]
• Municipality	5,332
• Density	46/km2 (120/sq mi)
• Urban	2,318
• Urban density	320/km2 (830/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (Central European Time)
Website	djurdjenovac.hr

At the 2011 census, there were a total of 6,750 inhabitants in the entire municipality, in the following settlements:^[3]

• Beljevina, population 712
• Bokšić, population 433
• Bokšić Lug, population 259
• Đurđenovac, population 2,944
• Gabrilovac, population 63
• Klokočevci, population 428
• Krčevina, population 115
• Ličko Novo Selo, population 96
• Lipine, population 68
• Našičko Novo Selo, population 344
• Pribiševci, population 390
• Sušine, population 278
• Šaptinovci, population 543
• Teodorovac, population 77

By ethnicity, 96.6% of the population was Croat, 1.9% was Serb.^[4]

Colonist settlement of Ličko Novo Selo was established during the land reform in interwar Yugoslavia.^[5]

History

The second known electric generator in Croatia was introduced in Đurđenovac in 1881, just one year after the first one was introduced in Duga Resa.^[6]

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: Đurđenovac". 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. Christian Heitmann (2023). "The Electrification of Yugoslavia 1919-1952: Ideas, Plans, Realities". In Danijel Kežić; Vladimir Petrović; Edvin Pezo (eds.). TAMING THE YUGOSLAV SPACE: Continuities and Discontinuities in Coping with the Infrastructural Challenges of the 20th Century. Belgrade & Regensburg: Institute of Contemporary History Belgrade & Leibniz-Institute for East and Southeast European Studies. pp. 67–88. doi:10.29362/2023.2794.hei.67-88.