Luč (, , sr-Cyrl, Луч) is a settlement in the
Petlovac municipality of Osijek-Baranja County in the region of Baranya, Croatia. The population was 322 people in 2011.
Until the end of World War II the most inhabitants were German
Danube Swabians
The Danube Swabians ( ) is a collective term for the ethnic German-speaking population who lived in the Kingdom of Hungary in east-central Europe, especially in the Danube River valley, first in the 12th century, and in greater numbers in the 17 ...
, also known locally as ''Stifolder'' because their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from
Fulda (district)
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Histo ...
. Most of them were expelled to
Allied-occupied Germany
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and
Allied-occupied Austria
Austria was occupied by the Allies of World War II, Allies and declared independence from Nazi Germany on 27 April 1945 (confirmed by the Berlin Declaration (1945), Berlin Declaration for Germany on 5 June 1945), as a result of the Vienna offen ...
in 1945–1948 under the
Potsdam Agreement
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.
Population
Ethnic composition, 1991. census
Austria-Hungary 1910. census
References
Bibliography
* Book: "Narodnosni i vjerski sastav stanovništva Hrvatske, 1880–1991: po naseljima, autor: Jakov Gelo, izdavač: Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, 1998., , ;
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Populated places in Osijek-Baranja County
Baranya (region)