Gradina is a village and a

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, in the

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. In the 2011 census, it had a total population of 3,850, in the following settlements: * Bačevac, population 370 * Brezovica, population 595 * Budakovac, population 257 * Detkovac, population 307 * Gradina, population 916 * , population 312 * Lug Gradinski, population 72 *

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, population 167 * Rušani, population 477 * , population 62 * Žlebina, population 315 In the 2001 census, 85.6% of the population were

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History

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

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of the

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. Colonist settlements of Brezovica, Hadžićevo (Svrakovac), Mitrovica, Podravski Sokolac (Vladimirovac), and Žlebina were established on the territory of the village municipality during the

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Politics

Minority councils

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fulfilled legal requirements to elect 10 members minority councils of the Municipality of Gradina.

Notable people

Boško Buha Boško Buha ( sr-Cyrl, Бошко Буха; 1926 – 27 September 1943) was a young Yugoslav Partisan and an honored icon of the Yugoslavian resistance during World War II. Early life Boško Buha was born into a Serb family in the Slavonian ...

, famous

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World War II child-hero, member of the

Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, and Slovene language, Slovene: , officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odr ...

Slavko Šajber Slavko Šajber (25 February 1929 – 3 November 2003) was a Croatian politician, football official and former president of the Football Association of Yugoslavia. Early life Šajber was born in Gradina, near Virovitica, to a Jewish family, . ...

, Croatian politician, football official and former president of the Football Association of Yugoslavia

References

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