Grubišno Polje (Czech: Hrubečné Pole) is a town in Bjelovar-Bilogora County, Croatia.
Grubišno Polje | |
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![]() Church of Saint Joseph in the town center | |
![]() ![]() Grubišno Polje Location of Grubišno Polje in Croatia | |
Coordinates: 45°42′08″N 17°10′20″E | |
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• Mayor | Zlatko Mađeruh (HDZ) |
Area | |
• Town | 269 km2 (104 sq mi) |
Elevation | 165 m (541 ft) |
Population (2011)[1] | |
• Town | 6,478 |
• Density | 24/km2 (62/sq mi) |
• Urban | 2,917 |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Website | grubisno-polje.hr |
In the 1991 census, the settlement had equal numbers of Serbs and Croatians, but during the Croatian War of Independence the Croatian Serbs were ethnically cleansed, and only part of them returned later in the 1990s.
In the 2001 census, the municipality had 7,523 inhabitants, with the following ethnic makeup:[2]
population | 6930 | 8119 | 9069 | 12664 | 14785 | 15809 | 15532 | 16101 | 13037 | 13792 | 13370 | 11772 | 10506 | 9716 | 7523 | 6478 | 5389 |
1857 | 1869 | 1880 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1921 | 1931 | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | 2021 |
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Grubišno Polje was a district capital in the Bjelovar-Križevci County of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.
The town has a memorial to its deceased from the Croatian War of Independence.[3]
The administrativne area of the Town consists of 24 settlements (as of 2011), namely:[1]
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