Petlovac

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
Municipality of Petlovac
Općina Petlovac
Petlovac
Location of Petlovac in Croatia
Petlovac
Petlovac (Croatia)
Petlovac
Petlovac (Europe)
Coordinates: 45°45′31″N 18°31′41″E
Country Croatia
County Osijek-Baranja
Government
  Municipal mayorMilan Knežević
Area
  Total93.31 km2 (36.03 sq mi)
Elevation
90 m (300 ft)
Population
 (2011 census)
  Total2,405[2]
Time zoneUTC+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]

Name

Its name derived from the word "petao" (which means "rooster" in English).

Municipality of Petlovac

Population

Population data graph 1857.-2011.[7]

Municipality of Petlovac has 2,405 inhabitants (2011 census), including:

Geography

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 (settlement)

History

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

Population

Population data graph 1857.-2011.[8]

Ethnic composition, 1991. census

Petlovac
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%)

Austria-Hungary 1910. census

Petlovac
Population by ethnicityPopulation by religion

total: 962

  Germans 927 (96.36%)
  Hungarians 28 (2.91%)
  Serbs 4 (0.41%)
  others 3 (0.31%)

total: 962

  Roman Catholics 944 (98.12%)
  jewish 10 (1.03%)
  eastern orthodox 5 (0.51%)
  calvinists 3 (0.31%)

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;


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