Dubravica | |
Official Name: | Općina Dubravica |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Croatia |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Dubravica in Croatia |
Coordinates: | 45.96°N 15.7161°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Croatia |
Subdivision Type1: | County |
Subdivision Name1: | Zagreb County |
Parts Type: | Settlements |
Parts Style: | coll |
Parts: | 10 settlements |
P1: | Bobovec Rozganski |
P2: | Donji Čemehovec |
P3: | Dubravica (seat) |
P4: | Kraj Gornji |
P5: | Lugarski Breg |
P6: | Lukavec Sutlanski |
P7: | Pologi |
P8: | Prosinec |
P9: | Rozga |
P10: | Vučilčevo |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Franjo Štos |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 20.6 |
Area Urban Km2: | 1.5 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 1192 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Urban: | 112 |
Population Density Urban Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | CET |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal codes |
Postal Code: | 10293 |
Area Code Type: | Area code |
Area Code: | 01 |
Blank Name: | License plates |
Blank Info: | ZG |
Dubravica is a municipality in Zagreb County, Croatia. According to the 2001 census, there are 1,586 inhabitants, absolute majority of which are Croats.
Dubravica municipality is located in the northwestern part of Zagreb County.
From the north it borders with the Krapina-Zagorje County and Municipality Kraljevec na Sutli, the Municipality of Luka and the city of Zaprešić, the Southeast Pušća Municipality, on the south by the Municipality of Marija Gorica, while the west washes the Sutla river where is the border with Slovenia.
In the west, the municipality covers a large part of the fertile valley, and its eastern parts are picturesque gentle hills of Zagorje and Prigorje.
The name Dubravica itself originates from an oak forest Dubrava, which was once covered the entire area, and even today it is not uncommon to find a typical forest plants such as wood anemone, or saffron, and the occasional oak tree in the meadows in the valley of the river Sutla.
According to the 1910 census, municipality of Dubravica had 2,448 inhabitants,[2] which were linguistically and religiously declared as this: