Jakšić is a town and a municipality in
Slavonia
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,
Croatia
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.
It is located in the middle of the
Požega Valley
The Požega Valley () is a geographic microregion of Croatia, located in central Slavonia, encompassing the eastern part of the Požega-Slavonia County. It is located in the Pannonian Basin, bounded by Psunj, Papuk and Krndija mountains from west ...
.
Population
The total population of the municipality was 4,058 in 2011, in the following
settlements:
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Bertelovci, population 151
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Cerovac, population 228
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Eminovci, population 640
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Granje, population 91
* Jakšić, population 1,877
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Radnovac, population 203
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Rajsavac, population 313
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Svetinja, population 67
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Tekić, population 231
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Treštanovci, population 257
In the same census, 93.5% were
Croats
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.
Colonist settlements of Brijest and Treštanovci 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 ...
.
Older sources refer to the village as "Jakšići" (plural of Jakšić).
Culture
In popular culture
In late November 2022 the village attracted regional media attention when local resident was reported to police by his neighbour and with the
Croatian Police
Law enforcement in Croatia is the responsibility of the Croatian Police (), which is the national police force of the country subordinated by the Ministry of the Interior (Croatia), Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, carrying o ...
subsequently submitting an indictment proposal for "''insulting the moral feelings of citizens''" for rising of the
flag of Yugoslavia on the private home on the anniversary of the former Yugoslav
Republic Day
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List
January 1 January in Slovak Republic
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Some lawyers criticized the decision of the Police arguing that the Yugoslav flag as such is not a forbidden symbol while the legal provision for "''insulting the moral feelings of citizens''" was from a dated 1977 law prescribing 50-200
Deutsche Mark
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fine.
Politics
Minority councils
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At the
Serbs of Croatia
The Serbs of Croatia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", Срби у Хрватској, Srbi u Hrvatskoj) or Croatian Serbs ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", Хрватски Срби, Hrvatski Srbi) constitute the largest national minority in C ...
fulfilled legal requirements to elect 10 members minority council of the Municipality of Jakšić with 9 candidates being elected in the end.
References
Populated places in Požega-Slavonia County
Slavonia
Municipalities of Croatia
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