Sikirevci is a village and municipality in

Brod-Posavina County Brod-Posavina County ( hr, Brodsko-posavska županija) is the southern Slavonian county in Croatia. Its center is the city of Slavonski Brod and it spreads along the left bank of the Sava river, hence the name '' Posavina''. Other notable town ...

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. The municipality consists of two settlements: Sikirevci and

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History

The name ''Sikrevci'' was first mentioned in 1540 as a river crossing ferry across the

Sava The Sava (; , ; sr-cyr, Сава, hu, Száva) is a river in Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia and along its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and finally t ...

river. The second mention of the name is also from the time of

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rule in 1579 when it mentions the village of Sikirevci consisting of 31 houses with their respective properties. After the liberation from the Turks the village was re-established as a military ( Grenzer) village. From the mid-18th century the village witnessed advanced urbanization and it became the seat of the 5th company (captaincy) of the Brod regiment. During the 'Canonical Visitation' in 1748, it was established that the village had 41 houses with 298 grown-ups and 100 children. Most of the population were soldiers (Grenzers) and/or common villagers. From the census in 1698, the native families of the village were: Jarić, Rakitić, Nikolić, Galović, Živić, Lučić, Marković, Benaković, Dimšić, and Dorić. From 1725, additional families settled in the village: Bašlinović, Radovanović, Šarčević, Zečević, Bilokapić, Čivić, and Tursun. The first mention of the

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of Sikirevci was mentioned in 1670, when

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Matej Belinić performed the

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in the same parish. After the liberation from the

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the parish was added to the

Velika Kopanica Velika Kopanica is a village and municipality in Brod-Posavina County, Croatia. There are a total of 3,308 inhabitants, in the following settlements: * Beravci, population 815 * Divoševci, population 296 * Kupina, population 269 * Mala Kopani ...

parish. The first brick-constructed church was built in 1776. Before that there was only a small chapel with a bell tower. The parish of Sikirevci was re-established again in 1789, and today's church was built in 1848. The municipality of Sikirevci was first established as an administrative office in 1873, after abolishment and de-militarization of the

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. After the

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the municipality was re-established by its extraction from the municipality of

Slavonski Šamac Slavonski Šamac is a village and municipality located on the river Sava in Croatia. It is located in Brod-Posavina county in the region of Slavonia. On the opposite side of the river lies the Bosnian town of Šamac Šamac or SAMAC can refer ...

Population

According to the 2001 census there are 2,707 inhabitants in the municipality living in two settlements: *Sikirevci 1,969 *Jaruge 738

Ethnic composition

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2,688 *

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7 *

Rusyns Rusyns (), also known as Carpatho-Rusyns (), or Rusnaks (), are an East Slavic ethnic group from the Eastern Carpathians in Central Europe. They speak Rusyn, an East Slavic language variety, treated variously as either a distinct languag ...

1 *others and unknown 11

References

* Municipalities of Croatia Populated places in Brod-Posavina County {{BrodPosavina-geo-stub