Majske Poljane is a village in central

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, in the municipality/town of

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Sisak-Moslavina County Sisak-Moslavina County ( hr, Sisačko-moslavačka županija) is a Croatian county in eastern Central Croatia and southwestern Slavonia. It is named after the city of Sisak and the region Moslavina just across the river Sava. According to 2021 ...

. The village's

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are , the

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is 162 meters above

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. The village was severely affected by the

2020 Petrinja earthquake At approximately 12:20 PM CET (11:20 UTC) on 29 December 2020, an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 (6.2 ) hit central Croatia, with an epicenter located roughly west-southwest of Petrinja. The maximum felt intensity was estimated at VIII (''Heavil ...

, with five deaths reported.

History

Culture

The village is within the Serbian Orthodox Church's

Eparchy of Upper Karlovac The Eparchy of Gornji Karlovac ( sr-Cyrl, Епархија горњокарловачка, hr, Eparhija gornjokarlovačka; "Eparchy of Upper Karlovac") is an eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church seated in the city of Karlovac, Croatia. It cover ...

. The Orthodox parish church, dedicated to the

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, stands on the hill above the village. The one-nave building with a semicircular chapel, high wooden cassette ceilings, vault decorated with figural and plant motifs, and the wooden bell tower, was built no later than 1820. It is very likely that its predecessor, the older wooden church, stood close by and higher up the hill. While the "new church" is a one-room

Krajina Krajina () is a Slavic toponym, meaning ' frontier' or 'march'. The term is related to ''kraj'' or ''krai'', originally meaning 'edge'Rick Derksen (2008), ''Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon'', Brill: Leiden-Boston, page 244 a ...

type of church, it is very traditional in shape and construction of the ceiling and vaults, and is similar to the chapel in Gornje Selište near Glina. The church, a pearl of folk architecture, was damaged by an earthquake of 1909 and its iconostasis, inherited from the Glina's St. George's Church, was destroyed during

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. The extensive reconstruction and renovation work carried out on the church, which started in 1946, was only completed in 1989. The church is of great historical and architectural value.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, the village of Majske Poljane has 196 inhabitants. This represents 32.56% of its pre-

war War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular o ...

population according to the 1991 census. Population by ethnicity
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Sights and events

* Celebration of the Feast of Transfiguration on 19 August * Monument to the Victims of Fascism - removed from the site and deposited into storage facilities in Glina based on the decision of the Glina Municipal Council dated 18 March 1997

Notable natives and residents

* Đuro Kurepa (1907–1993), Yugoslav mathematician. * Svetozar Kurepa (1929–2010), Yugoslavian and Croatian mathematician whose main contributions were in the areas of

functional analysis Functional analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis, the core of which is formed by the study of vector spaces endowed with some kind of limit-related structure (e.g. inner product, norm, topology, etc.) and the linear functions defined o ...

and

operator theory In mathematics, operator theory is the study of linear operators on function spaces, beginning with differential operators and integral operators. The operators may be presented abstractly by their characteristics, such as bounded linear operators ...

. *

Simeon Roksandić Simeon Roksandić (14 May 1874 – 12 January 1943) was a Serbian sculptor and academic, famous for his bronzes and fountains. He is frequently cited as one of the most renowned figures in Serbian and Yugoslavian sculpture. Roksandić exhibite ...

(1874–1943), a distinguished sculptor and academic, was also born in Majske Poljane.

References

External links

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Parohija Majske Poljane
{{Glina Populated places in Sisak-Moslavina County Glina, Croatia Serb communities in Croatia