Županja

This article is about a city in Croatia. For a South Slavic administrative subdivision, see Županija.

Županja (pronounced [ʒǔpaɲa], Hungarian: Zsupanya, German: Schaupanie) is a town in eastern Slavonia, Croatia, located 254 km east of Zagreb. It is administratively part of the Vukovar-Syrmia County. It is inhabited by 12,090 people (2011).^[8]

Županja
Town
Grad Županja Town of Županja
Županja
Flag Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 45°04′12″N 18°42′00″E
Country	Croatia
Region	Posavina
County	Vukovar-Syrmia
Government [1][2][3]
• Type	Mayor-council
• Mayor	Damir Juzbašić (Ind.)
Area [4]
• Town	50.2 km2 (19.4 sq mi)
• Urban	50.2 km2 (19.4 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[5]
• Town	9,153
• Density	180/km2 (470/sq mi)
• Urban	9,153
• Urban density	180/km2 (470/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal codes	HR-32 270[6]
Area code	+385 32[7]
License plates	ŽU
Website	zupanja.hr

Županja lies on the Sava river opposite Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is the site of a border-crossing bridge with the town of Orašje in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The A3 highway Zagreb-Slavonski Brod-Belgrade passes north of it, and the city is also reachable by a local railroad from Vinkovci as well as the state road D55. The 2011 census recorded 96.72% Croats in the municipality.^[9]

History

Županja was ruled by Ottoman Empire between 1536 and 1687 as part of Sanjak of Syrmia. Since the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699, until 1918, Županja (named ZUPANJE when a post-office was opened in 1861)^[10] remained in the Austrian monarchy (Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia after the compromise of 1867), in the Slavonian Military Frontier, under the administration of the Brooder Grenz-Infanterie-Regiment N°VII until 1881. In the late 19th and early 20th century, Županja was a district capital in the Kingdom Syrmia County. From 1929 to 1939, Županja was part of the Sava Banovina and from 1939 to 1941 of the Banovina of Croatia within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

The DVD "Sladorana" was founded in 1947.^[11]

Climate

Since records began in 1981, the highest temperature recorded at the local weather station was 40.5 °C (104.9 °F), on 24 July 2007.^[12] The coldest temperature was −22.8 °C (−9.0 °F), on 9 February 2012.^[13]

Demographics

The Županja municipality includes the settlement of Županja (marked red) on this map of settlements of eastern Slavonia.

Historical populations of Županja

Year Pop. ±% 1857 2,211 —     1869 2,534 +14.6% 1880 2,611 +3.0% 1890 3,467 +32.8% 1900 3,630 +4.7% 1910 3,338 −8.0% 1921 3,264 −2.2% 1931 3,508 +7.5% 1948 4,695 +33.8%	Year Pop. ±% 1953 5,391 +14.8% 1961 7,024 +30.3% 1971 8,865 +26.2% 1981 10,263 +15.8% 1991 11,947 +16.4% 2001 13,775 +15.3% 2011 12,090 −12.2% 2021 9,246 −23.5%
Source: Naselja i stanovništvo Republike Hrvatske 1857–2001, Croatian Bureau of Statistics, Zagreb, 2005

Town of Županja: Population trends 1857–2021

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population	3831	4337	4280	5161	5347	5019	4747	5103	6537	7391	9339	11476	12679	14435	16383	12090	9153
	1857	1869	1880	1890	1900	1910	1921	1931	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011	2021

Sources:Croatian Bureau of Statistics publications

Sports

NK Graničar is the major football club who play in the third tier of the Croatian football pyramid.

Gallery

• 
  Residential buildings
• 
  Defenders memorial
• 
  Županja railway station, 1997
• 
  Town library

Notable people

• Pero Galić [hr], Croatian singer and founder of rock band Opća Opasnost
• Srećko Albini (1869–1933), Croatian composer, conductor, and music publisher
• Melita Lorković, Croatian female pianist, university professor and music pedagogue (1907-1987)
• Amiel Shomrony - cantor of the Jewish community in Zagreb and secretary of Zagreb's chief rabbi Miroslav Šalom Freiberger during the World War II
• Dario Župarić, Croatian footballer (b. 1992)

See also

• Spačva basin