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Donji Kukuruzari
Donji Kukuruzari ( sr-Cyrl, Доњи Кукурузари) is a village and a municipality in Croatia in the Sisak-Moslavina County. Donji Kukuruzari is underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as the First Category Area of Special State Concern by the Government of Croatia. It has a population of 1,634 (census 2011), in the following settlements: * Babina Rijeka, population 127 * Borojevići, population 119 * Donja Velešnja, population 261 * Donji Bjelovac, population 43 * Donji Kukuruzari, population 297 * Gornja Velešnja, population 73 * Gornji Bjelovac, population 53 * Gornji Kukuruzari, population 51 * Knezovljani, population 81 * Komogovina, population 126 * Kostreši Bjelovački, population 43 * Lovča, population 19 * Mečenčani, population 148 * Prevršac, population 120 * Umetić, population 73 Demographics *1991 Serbs were majority 249 (82.72%), then Croats 43 (14.28%), Yugoslavs 2 (0.66%) and others 7 (2.32%). *2011 census, 64.44% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Council Of Europe
The Council of Europe (CoE; french: Conseil de l'Europe, ) is an international organisation founded in the wake of World War II to uphold European Convention on Human Rights, human rights, democracy and the Law in Europe, rule of law in Europe. Founded in 1949, it has 46 member states, with a population of approximately 675 million; it operates with an annual budget of approximately 500 million euros. The organisation is distinct from the European Union (EU), although it is sometimes confused with it, partly because the EU has adopted the original Flag of Europe, European flag, created for the Council of Europe in 1955, as well as the Anthem of Europe, European anthem. No country has ever joined the EU without first belonging to the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe is an official United Nations General Assembly observers, United Nations Observer. Being an international organization, the Council of Europe cannot make laws, but it does have the ability to push for the enf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugoslavs
Yugoslavs or Yugoslavians ( Bosnian and Croatian: ''Jugoslaveni'', Serbian and Macedonian ''Jugosloveni''/Југословени; sl, Jugoslovani) is an identity that was originally designed to refer to a united South Slavic people. It has been used in two connotations, the first in a sense of common shared ethnic descent, i.e. panethnic or supraethnic connotation for ethnic South Slavs, and the second as a term for all citizens of former Yugoslavia regardless of ethnicity. Cultural and political advocates of Yugoslav identity have historically ascribed the identity to be applicable to all people of South Slav heritage, including those of modern Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia. Although Bulgarians are a South Slavic group, attempts at uniting Bulgaria into Yugoslavia were unsuccessful, and therefore Bulgarians were not included in the panethnic identification. Since the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the establishment of So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croats
The Croats (; hr, Hrvati ) are a South Slavic ethnic group who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language. They are also a recognized minority in a number of neighboring countries, namely Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. Due to political, social and economic reasons, many Croats migrated to North and South America as well as New Zealand and later Australia, establishing a diaspora in the aftermath of World War II, with grassroots assistance from earlier communities and the Roman Catholic Church. In Croatia (the nation state), 3.9 million people identify themselves as Croats, and constitute about 90.4% of the population. Another 553,000 live in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where they are one of the three constituent ethnic groups, predominantly living in Western Herzegovina, Central Bosnia and Bosnian Posavina. The minority in Serbia number about 70,000, mostly in Vojvodina. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbs Of Croatia
The Serbs of Croatia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", Срби у Хрватској, Srbi u Hrvatskoj) or Croatian Serbs ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", хрватски Срби, hrvatski Srbi) constitute the largest national minority in Croatia. The community is predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christian by religion, as opposed to the Croats who are Roman Catholic. In some regions of modern-day Croatia, mainly in southern Dalmatia, ethnic Serbs have been present from the Early Middle Ages. Serbs from modern-day Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina started actively migrating to Croatia in several migration waves after 1538 when the Emperor Ferdinand I granted them the right to settle on the territory of the Military Frontier. In exchange for land and exemption from taxation, they had to conduct military service and participate in the protection of the Habsburg monarchy's border against the Ottoman Empire. They populated the Dalmatian Hinterland, Lika, Kordun, Banovina, Slavonia, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umetić
Umetić is a village in the Donji Kukuruzari municipality in central Croatia. It is connected by the D30 highway. Geography Umetić is located in Banovina. History The region was held by Krajina Serbs during the Croatian War of Independence. Demographics *2011: 73 inhabitants. *1991: 136 inhabitants. Notable people *Svetozar Boroević Svetozar Boroević von Bojna (or Borojević) (13 December 1856 – 23 May 1920) was an Austro-Hungarian field marshal who was described as one of the finest defensive strategists of the First World War. He commanded Austro-Hungarian forces i ... References Populated places in Sisak-Moslavina County {{SisakMoslavina-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mečenčani
Mečenčani ( sr-cyr, Меченчани) is a village in the Donji Kukuruzari municipality, Central Croatia. Geography The village is located in the region of Banovina (known as ''Banija''). History In 1905, the municipality of Mečenčani existed in the Zagreb County of Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, having 5025 people, of whom Serbs of the Orthodox faith numbered 4574 (91.1%). It was previously part of the Kostajnica municipality. Before the outbreak of the Croatian War, the SAO Krajina (1990-1991) was self-proclaimed in the region by ethnic Serbs of Croatia. The region was subsequently reintegrated into Croatia after Operation Storm. After the 2020 Petrinja earthquake, more than 50 large sinkholes appeared in the Mečenčani area, endangering the population. The deepest of these sinkholes was approximately deep. Demographics Religion Serbian Orthodox Church of the Intercession of the Theotokos Neoclassicist Serbian Orthodox Church of the Intercession of the Theotok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komogovina
Komogovina ( sr-Cyrl, Комоговина) is a village in the Donji Kukuruzari municipality of central Croatia. It is the location of the Serbian Orthodox Komogovina Monastery Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Lord is a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Komogovina, Croatia that was in operation between 1693 and 1777. It was established by monks from Bosanska Krajina in XVII century in 1693. Their earlier monastery bel .... References Populated places in Sisak-Moslavina County Serb communities in Croatia {{SisakMoslavina-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knezovljani
Knezovljani is a village in the Donji Kukuruzari municipality of central Croatia. It is connected by the D30 highway. According to the 2011 census, there was a total of 81 inhabitants. History The village was part of the Republic of Serbian Krajina The Republic of Serbian Krajina or Serb Republic of Krajina ( sh, Република Српска Крајина, italics=no / or РСК / ''RSK'', ), known as the Serbian Krajina ( / ) or simply Krajina, was a self-proclaimed Serb proto-state, ... during the Croatian War (1991–95). Demographic history According to the 1991 census, there was a total of 177 inhabitants, out of whom Serbs were majority 171 (96.61%), with Croats 2 (1.12%), and others 4 (2.25%).Knjiga: "Narodnosni i vjerski sastav stanovništva Hrvatske, 1880-1991: po naseljima, autor: Jakov Gelo, izdavač: Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, 1998., , References Populated places in Sisak-Moslavina County Serb communities in Croatia {{Sisa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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