Ernestinovo ( hu, Ernőháza, german: Ernestinenhof, sr-cyr, Ернестиново) is a municipality in

Osijek-Baranja County Osijek-Baranja County (, hr, Osječko-baranjska županija, hu, Eszék-Baranya megye) is a county in Croatia, located in northeastern Slavonia and Baranja. Its center is Osijek. Other towns include Đakovo, Našice, Valpovo, Belišće, and B ...

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. There are a total of 2,189 inhabitants, 78% of whom are

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, 19% are

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, and 7% are

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. The municipality consists of the settlements of Divoš (pop. 63), Ernestinovo (pop. 1,047), and

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(pop. 1,079). Ernestinovo also has some people of German descent, although most of the German inhabitants were expelled in 1944. North of Ernestinovo lies the major HEP Substation TS Ernestinovo, which was originally built in 1977 as the first 400 kV station in Croatia. It is connected with long-distance power lines to TS Tumbri/Žerjavinec (

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) and

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. It had been destroyed in the Croatian War of Independence in 1991, but was fully repaired in 2003. Bobota Canal passes next to the village. Ernestinovo is underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as the First Category Area of Special State Concern by the Government of Croatia.

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