Županja (, , ) is a town in eastern

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, located 254 km east of

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. It is administratively part of the

Vukovar-Syrmia County Vukovar-Srijem County (), Vukovar-Sirmium County or Vukovar-Syrmia County, named after the eponymous town of Vukovar and the region of Syrmia, is the easternmost Croatian Counties of Croatia, county. It includes the eastern parts of the region of ...

. It is inhabited by 12,090 people (2011). Županja lies on the

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river opposite

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, and is the site of a border-crossing bridge with the town of Orašje in

. The A3 highway

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passes north of it, and the city is also reachable by a local railroad from

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as well as the state road D55. The 2011 census recorded 96.72%

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in the municipality.

History

Županja was ruled by

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

between 1536 and 1687 as part of Sanjak of Syrmia. Since the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699, until 1918, Županja (named ''ZUPANJE'' when a post-office was opened in 1861) remained in the

Austrian monarchy The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm (), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities ( composite monarchy) that were ruled by the House of Habsburg. From the 18th century it ...

(

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 ...

after the compromise of 1867), in the Slavonian Military Frontier, under the administration of the ''Brooder Grenz-Infanterie-Regiment N°VII'' until 1881. In the late 19th and early 20th century, Županja was a district capital in the Kingdom Syrmia County. From 1929 to 1939, Županja was part of the Sava Banovina and from 1939 to 1941 of the Banovina of Croatia within the

Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast Europe, Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 to 1929, it was officially called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, but the term "Yugoslavia" () h ...

. The DVD "Sladorana" was founded in 1947.

Climate

Since records began in 1981, the highest temperature recorded at the local weather station was , on 24 July 2007. The coldest temperature was , on 9 February 2012.

Demographics

Sports

NK Graničar is the major football club who play in the third tier of the Croatian football pyramid.

Gallery

Zupanja Marktplatz.JPG, Residential buildings Memorial for the defenders of Zupanja, Croatia.JPG, Defenders memorial HŽ 2062 Županja.jpg, Županja railway station, 1997 Gradska knjižnica Županja - Градска библиотека Жупања.jpg, Town library

Notable people

*, Croatian singer and founder of rock band Opća Opasnost * Srećko Albini (1869–1933), Croatian composer, conductor, and music publisher * Melita Lorković, Croatian female pianist, university professor and music pedagogue (1907-1987) * Amiel Shomrony - cantor of the Jewish community in Zagreb and secretary of Zagreb's chief rabbi Miroslav Šalom Freiberger during the World War II * Dario Župarić, Croatian footballer (b. 1992)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zupanja Cities and towns in Croatia Populated places in Syrmia Slavonia Bosnia and Herzegovina–Croatia border crossings Populated places in Vukovar-Srijem County Syrmia County