Hlebine

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Location of Hlebine in Croatia

Hlebine
Hlebine
Coordinates: 46°09′14″N 16°57′58″E / 46.15389°N 16.96611°E / 46.15389; 16.96611
Country	Croatia
County	Koprivnica-Križevci
Area [1]
• Total	30.7 km2 (11.9 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]
• Total	1,180
• Density	38/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	hlebine.hr

Hlebine is a municipality in Koprivnica-Križevci County in Croatia. It consists of two villages, Hlebine and Gabajeva Greda.

Its population is earns its living primarily from agricultural production. The population has been decreasing continuously for a number of years. As of 2001, Hlebine had 1470 inhabitants with the overwhelming majority being Croats.

Hlebine is first mentioned 1671 as a village in the Drnje parish. It became an independent parish in the 18th century. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Hlebine was part of the Bjelovar-Križevci County of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. It was a part of Koprivnica county until 1993. Hlebine is also an important city for Croatian art, and is a center of Croatian naive art. It is a birth town of Franjo Mraz, Krsto Hegedušić, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić and Franjo Gaži. To Hlebine naive painting movement belonged also Mirko Virius, dead in camp at Zemun around 1943.

• Hlebine School

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