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Luč (Hungarian: Lőcs), (German: Lutsch)is a settlement in the region of Baranja, Croatia. Administratively, it is located in the Petlovac municipality within the Osijek-Baranja County. Population is 435 people.[1]

Luč
Village
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Coordinates: 45°47′07″N 18°32′08″E
Country	Croatia
Region	Baranya
County	Osijek-Baranja
Municipality	Petlovac
Elevation	300 ft (90 m)
Population  (2011)
• Total	435
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	31300 Beli Manastir
Area code(s)	(+385) 31

Until the end of World War II, the majority of the Inhabitants was Danube Swabians, also called locally as Stifolder, because there Ancestors once came at the 17th century and 18th century from Fulda (district).[2] Mostly of the former German Settlers was expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945-1948, about the Potsdam Agreement.[3]

Population

Ethnic composition, 1991. census

Luč
1991
total: 735   Croats 615 (83.67%)   Yugoslavs 54 (7.34%)   Serbs 31 (4.21%)   Hungarians 9 (1.22%)   Slovenes 8 (1.08%)   Albanians 4 (0.54%)   Ruthenians 3 (0.40%)   Germans 2 (0.27%)   Montenegrins 2 (0.27%)   ethnic Muslims 1 (0.13%)   ethnically undeclared 4 (0.54%)   unknown 2 (0.27%)

Austria-Hungary 1910. census

Luč
Population by ethnicity	Population by religion
total: 1,138   Šokci 730 (64.14%)   Germans 276 (24.25%)   Hungarians 107 (9.40%)   Slovaks 18 (1.58%)   Serbs 6 (0.52%)   Croats 1 (0.08%)	total: 1,138   Roman Catholics 1,115 (97.97%)   Jewish 13 (1.14%)   Eastern Orthodox 6 (0.52%)   Calvinists 4 (0.35%)

References

Literature

• 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;

See also

• Osijek-Baranja county
• Baranja

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