Blatnica is a village in central

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, just southwest of

Bjelovar Bjelovar (, , Czech language, Czech: ''Bělovar'' or ''Bělovár,'' Kajkavian dialect, Kajkavian: ''Belovar,'' Latin: ''Bellovarium'') is a city in central Croatia. In the Demographics of Croatia, 2021 census, its population was 36,316 . It is ...

Demographics

According to the 2021 census, its population was 89. The population was 130 in 2011. The nearby Blatnica

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s, created by draining the

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s of the

Česma The Česma is a river in central Croatia, a left tributary of the river Lonja-Trebež. It is long, and its catchment area is . It is created by merging streams ''Grđevica'' and ''Barna'' at near the village of Pavlovac in the municipality o ...

river, are a major bird habitat with more than 100 recorded bird species, and a part of the

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network.

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