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]
Petlovac | |
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Municipality of Petlovac Općina Petlovac | |
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Coordinates: 45°45′31″N 18°31′41″E | |
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Government | |
• Municipal mayor | Milan Knežević |
Area | |
• Total | 93.31 km2 (36.03 sq mi) |
Elevation | 90 m (300 ft) |
Population (2011 census) | |
• Total | 2,405[2] |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 31321 Petlovac |
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).[5] Mostly of the former German Settlers was expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945-1948, about the Potsdam Agreement.[6]
Its name derived from the word "petao" (which means "rooster" in English).
population | 3734 | 4328 | 4181 | 4294 | 4784 | 4803 | 4605 | 4765 | 5607 | 5153 | 5303 | 4930 | 3949 | 3785 | 2743 | 2405 |
1857 | 1869 | 1880 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1921 | 1931 | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 |
Municipality of Petlovac has 2,405 inhabitants (2011 census), including:
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:
Till 1991. part of settlement was Zeleno Polje which is now independent settlement.
population | 820 | 864 | 846 | 882 | 927 | 962 | 1196 | 1244 | 869 | 906 | 1167 | 1000 | 940 | 1012 | 801 | 714 |
1857 | 1869 | 1880 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1921 | 1931 | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 |
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1991 |
total: 1,012 Croats 843 (83.30%) Serbs 51 (5.03%) Yugoslavs 37 (3.65%) Hungarians 25 (2.47%) Slovenes 11 (1.08%) Montenegrins 7 (0.69%) Germans 5 (0.49%) ethnic Muslims 1 (0.09%) ethnically undeclared 15 (1.48%) unknown 17 (1.67%)
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Population by ethnicity | Population by religion |
total: 962 Germans 927 (96.36%) Hungarians 28 (2.91%) Serbs 4 (0.41%) others 3 (0.31%)
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total: 962 Roman Catholics 944 (98.12%) jewish 10 (1.03%) eastern orthodox 5 (0.51%) calvinists 3 (0.31%)
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