Špišić Bukovica is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

in the Virovitica–Podravina County.

Demographics

It has a total population of 4,221 ( 2011 census), in the following settlements: * Bušetina, population 815 * Lozan, population 440 * Novi Antunovac, population 101 * Okrugljača, population 272 * Rogovac, population 228 * Špišić Bukovica, population 1,686 * Vukosavljevica, population 679 98.5% of the population are Croats, per census 2001. Colonist settlements of Jova reka, Okrugljača, and Špišić Bukovica were established on the territory of the village municipality during the

land reform in interwar Yugoslavia The land reform in interwar Yugoslavia was a process of redistribution of agricultural land in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed Yugoslavia in 1929) carried out in the interwar period. The reform's proclaimed social ideal was ...

History

In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Špišić Bukovica was part of the

Virovitica County Virovitica County (; ) was an administrative subdivision () of the Croatia in personal union with Hungary, Medieval Kingdom of Croatia, the Kingdom of Slavonia and the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. Slavonia was an autonomous kingdom within bot ...

of the

Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia The Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (; or ; ) was a nominally autonomous kingdom and constitutionally defined separate political nation within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was created in 1868 by merging the kingdoms of Kingdom of Croatia (Habs ...

References

Populated places in Virovitica-Podravina County Municipalities of Croatia {{ViroviticaPodravina-geo-stub