Bijelo Brdo, Croatia Explained

Official Name:Bijelo Brdo
Native Name:[1]
Settlement Type:Village (Selo)
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Coordinates:45.5172°N 18.8708°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Croatia
Subdivision Type1:County
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:Erdut
Governing Body:Local Committee
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Footnotes:[2]
Area Total Km2:38.1
Population As Of:2021
Population Total:1517
Population Density Km2:auto
Population Demonym:Bjelobrđanin () Bjelobrđanka ()
(per grammatical gender)
Timezone:CET
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset:+1
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Blank Name Sec1:Official languages
Blank Info Sec1:Croatian, Serbian[3]

Bijelo Brdo (Serbian: Бијело Брдо,[1] Hungarian: Darnó, German: Wellibardo) is a village in the Erdut municipality in eastern Croatia. It is connected by the D213 road and by R202 railway. It has a total of 1,961 inhabitants (2011).

Geography

The village is situated 15 km east from Osijek, in the Slavonia region on the banks of the Stara Drava branch, in the micro-region of Erdutska kosa, at an altitude of 93m above sea level. It covers an area of 36.64 km².

History

Bijelo Brdo is important for archeological findings from the Bronze Age (Transdanubian cultural group) and two medieval cemeteries: one Avar-Slavic from VII-IX. century and another from X-XI. century, which became the eponymous site of the Bijelo Brdo culture. Before the Ottoman rule, the village was once called Trnovac, the neighboring Hungarians called it Dorno. During the Ottoman rule, the population from upper Podrinje and Polimlje settled here. During the Vienna War (1683–1699), at the time of the Turkish withdrawal the settlement was destroyed and the inhabitants fled to Bosnia. A considerable number of Serbs, in the almost desolate Trnovac, settled at the time of the Great Migrations of the Serbs under Arsenije III Čarnojević. In 1706, the village numbered 63 houses and in that year became part of a Dalj estate.[4] [5] The colonization of Slavonia was carried out in a systematic fashion through centuries but particularly during the period of WWII. Among people inhabiting poor areas, Slavonia was famed as a promised land which could feed large numbers of people, where there was a lot of fertile land and favorable living conditions.[6]

Culture

Demographics

The 2011 census recorded a total of 1,961 inhabitants. The 2001 census had a total of 2,119 inhabitants in 720 households. 1991 census, a total of 2,400 inhabitants, out of which Serbs 1,941 (80.87%), Croats 217 (9.04%), Yugoslavs 97 (4.04%), and other smaller communities.

Sport

Notable people

References

45.5175°N 18.8731°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Peto izvješće Republike Hrvatske o primjeni Europske povelje o regionalnim ili manjinskim jezicima . October 2013 . Government of Croatia . . 36 . hr . PDF . 30 November 2016.
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  3. Web site: Peto izvješće Republike Hrvatske o primjeni Europske povelje o regionalnim ili manjinskim jezicima . October 2013 . Government of Croatia . . 36 . hr . PDF . 30 November 2016.
  4. Web site: Bijelo Brdo Općina Erdut. en-US. 2019-08-16.
  5. Web site: Bijelo Brdo Hrvatska enciklopedija. www.enciklopedija.hr. 2019-08-16.
  6. Balta. Ivan. 2001-10-19. Kolonizacija u Slavoniji od početka XX. stoljeća s posebnim osvrtom na razdoblje 1941.-1945. godine. Radovi Zavoda za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Zadru. hr. 43. 459–478. 1330-0474.