Petlovac

Municipality in Osijek-Baranja, Croatia

Petlovac

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Municipality of Petlovac
Općina Petlovac

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Coordinates: 45°45′31″N 18°31′41″E﻿ / ﻿45.75861°N 18.52806°E﻿ / 45.75861; 18.52806
Country|  Croatia
County|  Osijek-Baranja
Government

• Municipal mayor| Milan Knežević
Area

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• Municipality

| 93.6 km2 (36.1 sq mi)
• Urban

| 17.6 km2 (6.8 sq mi)
Elevation

| 90 m (300 ft)
Population

(2021)[2]

• Municipality

| 1,874
• Density| 20/km2 (52/sq mi)
• Urban

| 532
• Urban density| 30/km2 (78/sq mi)
Time zone| UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)| UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal codes|

31321 Petlovac

Area code| (+385) 31
Website| petlovac.hr

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]

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

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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

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### Population

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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: [1]

* 73.22% Croats
* 13.72% Hungarians
* 5.07% Serbs
* 4.53% Romani

### Geography

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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:

* Petlovac
* Baranjsko Petrovo Selo
* Luč
* Novi Bezdan
* Novo Nevesinje
* Sudaraž
* Širine
* Torjanci
* Zeleno Polje

## Politics

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### Minority councils

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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)

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### History

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

### Population

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Population data graph 1857.-2011.[11]

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Sources:Croatian Bureau of Statistics publications

### Ethnic composition, 1991. census

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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

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Petlovac

Population by ethnicity | Population 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%)

* In 1910. census together with settlement Zeleno Polje.

## References

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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. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2013.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. ^ Lovrinčević, Željko; Davor, Mikulić; Budak, Jelena (June 2004). "AREAS OF SPECIAL STATE CONCERN IN CROATIA- REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT DIFFERENCES AND THE DEMOGRAPHIC AND EDUCATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS". Ekonomski pregled, Vol.55 No.5-6. Archived from the original on 18 August 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
5. ^ "Stifolder Tortenet" (PDF).
6. ^ "Die Vertreibung – Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn".
7. ^ "O Baranji". Visit Baranja (in Croatian). Retrieved 10 April 2023.
8. ^ "Naselja i stanovništvo Republike Hrvatske 1857.-2001., www.dzs.hr". Archived from the original on 13 November 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
9. ^ "Manjinski izbori prve nedjelje u svibnju, kreću i edukacije". T-portal. 13 March 2023. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
10. ^ "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. 34\. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 June 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
11. ^ Naselja i stanovništvo Republike Hrvatske 1857.-2001., www.dzs.hr

## Literature

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* Book: "Narodnosni i vjerski sastav stanovništva Hrvatske, 1880–1991: po naseljima, autor: Jakov Gelo, izdavač: Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, 1998., ISBN 953-6667-07-X, ISBN 978-953-6667-07-9;

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Municipality of Petlovac

Settlements:|

* Baranjsko Petrovo Selo
* Luč
* Novi Bezdan
* Novo Nevesinje
* Petlovac
* Sudaraž
* Širine
* Torjanci
* Zeleno Polje

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Subdivisions of Osijek-Baranja County

Cities and towns|

* Beli Manastir
* Belišće
* Đakovo
* Donji Miholjac
* Našice
* Osijek (seat)
* Valpovo

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Municipalities|

* Antunovac
* Bilje
* Bizovac
* Čeminac
* Čepin
* Darda
* Donja Motičina
* Draž
* Drenje
* Đurđenovac
* Erdut
* Ernestinovo
* Feričanci
* Gorjani
* Jagodnjak
* Kneževi Vinogradi
* Koška
* Levanjska Varoš
* Magadenovac
* Marijanci
* Petlovac
* Petrijevci
* Podgorač
* Podravska Moslavina
* Popovac
* Punitovci
* Satnica Đakovačka
* Semeljci
* Strizivojna
* Šodolovci
* Trnava
* Viljevo
* Viškovci
* Vladislavci
* Vuka

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