Brodski Varoš is a
village in
municipality of
Slavonski Brod in
Brod-Posavina County,
Croatia. The town is notable for being the birthplace of
Đuro Đaković, a prominent
labor rights
Labor rights or workers' rights are both legal rights and human rights relating to labor relations between workers and employers. These rights are codified in national and international labor and employment law. In general, these rights influen ...
activist and
communist
Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...
revolutionary in
Yugoslavia between two World Wars. More recently, Brodski Varoš has gained attention as the residence of
Klepetan and Malena
Klepetan and Malena were a pair of white storks (''Ciconia ciconia'') who became renowned in Croatia for their romantic endeavors. Between 2001 and 2021, Klepetan traveled from South Africa to Brodski Varoš, Croatia, each spring to mate with Mal ...
, a mating pair of storks whose relationship was covered by the media, raising public interest in the lives of migratory birds.
History
Brodski Varoš was settled by German
Protestants
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...
in the 1800s.
References
Populated places in Brod-Posavina County
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