Županja

Županja

Županja

Town in Posavina, Croatia

This article is about a city in Croatia. For a South Slavic administrative subdivision, see Županija.

Županja (Croatian pronunciation: [ʒǔpaɲa], Hungarian: Zsupanya, German: Schaupanie) is a town in eastern Slavonia, Croatia, located 254 km east of Zagreb. It is administratively part of the Vukovar-Syrmia County. It is inhabited by 12,090 people (2011).[8]

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Županja lies on the Sava river opposite Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is the site of a border-crossing bridge with the town of Orašje in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The A3 highway Zagreb-Slavonski Brod-Belgrade passes north of it, and the city is also reachable by a local railroad from Vinkovci as well as the state road D55. The 2011 census recorded 96.72% Croats in the municipality.[9]

History

Županja was ruled by Ottoman Empire between 1536 and 1687 as part of Sanjak of Syrmia. Since the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699, until 1918, Županja (named ZUPANJE when a post-office was opened in 1861)[10] remained in the Austrian monarchy (Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia after the compromise of 1867), in the Slavonian Military Frontier, under the administration of the Brooder Grenz-Infanterie-Regiment N°VII until 1881. In the late 19th and early 20th century, Županja was a district capital in the Kingdom Syrmia County. From 1929 to 1939, Županja was part of the Sava Banovina and from 1939 to 1941 of the Banovina of Croatia within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Demographics

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Town of Županja: Population trends 1857–2021
population
3831
4337
4280
5161
5347
5019
4747
5103
6537
7391
9339
11476
12679
14435
16383
12090
9153
18571869188018901900191019211931194819531961197119811991200120112021
Sources: Croatian Bureau of Statistics publications

Sports

NK Graničar is the major football club who play in the third tier of the Croatian football pyramid.

  • Residential buildings
  • Defenders memorial
  • Županja railway station, 1997
  • Town library

Notable people

See also

References

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    "Gradonačelnik". Town of Županja (in Croatian). Retrieved 13 September 2009.
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    "Gradsko vijeće". Town of Županja (in Croatian). Retrieved 13 September 2009.
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    "5. izborna jedinica". Vjesnik (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 12 May 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
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    Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata Q119585703.
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    "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2021 Census". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
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    "Croatia - postal codes". GeoNames. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
  7. [7]
    "Međumjesni promet". T-Com Hrvatska (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
  8. [8]
    "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: Županja". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
  9. [9]
    "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: County of Vukovar-Sirmium". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
  10. [10]
    Handbook of Austria and Lombardy-Venetia Cancellations on the Postage Stamp Issues 1850-1864, by Edwin MUELLER, 1961.
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