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Coordinates: 45°45′31″N 18°31′41″E / 45.75861°N 18.52806°E / 45.75861; 18.52806
Country	Croatia
County	Osijek-Baranja
Government
• Municipal mayor	Milan Knežević
Area
• Municipality	93.6 km (36.1 sq mi)
• Urban	17.6 km (6.8 sq mi)
Elevation	90 m (300 ft)
Population
• Municipality	1,874
• Density	20/km (52/sq mi)
• Urban	532
• Urban density	30/km (78/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal codes	31321 Petlovac
Area code	(+385) 31
Website	petlovac.hr

Petlovac (Hungarian: Baranyaszentistván, German: Sanktivan, Serbian Cyrillic: Петловац) is a village and municipality in the western part of Baranja, which comprise the northern part of Osijek-Baranja County in Croatia. Petlovac is underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as the First Category Area of Special State Concern by the Government of Croatia.

Until the end of World War II, the majority of the inhabitants was Danube Swabian, also called locally as Stifolder, because their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from Fulda (district). Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945-1948, as a result of the Potsdam Agreement.

Name

Its name derived from the word "petao" (which means "rooster" in English). The village had different names in history. During Hungarian rule, it was called Sent Ištvan (Saint Stephen), and German settlers named it Blumendorf, which means Village of Flowers.

Municipality of Petlovac

Population

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Municipality of Petlovac has 2,405 inhabitants (2011 census), including:

• 73.22% Croats
• 13.72% Hungarians
• 5.07% Serbs
• 4.53% Romani

Geography

It is located between border with Hungary in the north-west, Baranja municipalities of Beli Manastir and Jagodnjak in the east and Slavonia region in the south-west.

The municipality of Petlovac include following settlements:

• Petlovac
• Baranjsko Petrovo Selo
• Luč
• Novi Bezdan
• Novo Nevesinje
• Sudaraž
• Širine
• Torjanci
• Zeleno Polje

Politics

Minority councils

Directly elected minority councils and representatives are tasked with consulting tasks for the local or regional authorities in which they are advocating for minority rights and interests, integration into public life and participation in the management of local affairs. At the 2023 Croatian national minorities councils and representatives elections Hungarians, Roma and Serbs of Croatia each fulfilled legal requirements to elect 10 members municipal minority councils of the Petlovac Municipality but the elections for Serb council were not held due to the lack of candidates.

Petlovac (settlement)

History

Till 1991. part of settlement was Zeleno Polje which is now independent settlement.

Population

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Ethnic composition, 1991. census

Austria-Hungary 1910. census

• In 1910. census together with settlement Zeleno Polje.

References

1. Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata Q119585703.
2. "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. Lovrinčević, Željko; Davor, Mikulić; Budak, Jelena (June 2004). "AREAS OF SPECIAL STATE CONCERN IN CROATIA- REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT DIFFERENCES AND THE DEMOGRAPHIC AND EDUCATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS". Ekonomski pregled, Vol.55 No.5-6. Archived from the original on 18 August 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
5. "Stifolder Tortenet" (PDF).
6. "Die Vertreibung – Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn".
7. "O Baranji". Visit Baranja (in Croatian). Retrieved 10 April 2023.
8. Naselja i stanovništvo Republike Hrvatske 1857.-2001., www.dzs.hr
9. "Manjinski izbori prve nedjelje u svibnju, kreću i edukacije". T-portal. 13 March 2023. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
10. "Informacija o konačnim rezultatima izbora članova vijeća i izbora predstavnika nacionalnih manjina 2023. XIV. OSJEČKO-BARANJSKA ŽUPANIJA" (PDF) (in Croatian). Državno izborno povjerenstvo Republike Hrvatske. 2023. p. 34. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
11. Naselja i stanovništvo Republike Hrvatske 1857.-2001., www.dzs.hr

Literature

• Book: "Narodnosni i vjerski sastav stanovništva Hrvatske, 1880–1991: po naseljima, autor: Jakov Gelo, izdavač: Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, 1998., ISBN 953-6667-07-X, ISBN 978-953-6667-07-9;

v t e Subdivisions of Osijek-Baranja County
Cities and towns	Beli Manastir Belišće Đakovo Donji Miholjac Našice Osijek (seat) Valpovo
Municipalities	Antunovac Bilje Bizovac Čeminac Čepin Darda Donja Motičina Draž Drenje Đurđenovac Erdut Ernestinovo Feričanci Gorjani Jagodnjak Kneževi Vinogradi Koška Levanjska Varoš Magadenovac Marijanci Petlovac Petrijevci Podgorač Podravska Moslavina Popovac Punitovci Satnica Đakovačka Semeljci Strizivojna Šodolovci Trnava Viljevo Viškovci Vladislavci Vuka

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