Official Name: | Grabovac Banski |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Croatia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Grabovac Banski in Croatia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Coordinates: | 45.3308°N 16.2383°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Continental Croatia (Banovina) |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Sisak-Moslavina |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Petrinja |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 7.4 |
Elevation M: | 215 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 127 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | CET |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 44204 Jabukovac |
Area Code: | (+385) 044 |
Grabovac Banski is a village in central Croatia, in the Town of Petrinja, Sisak-Moslavina County. It is connected by the D30 highway.
On 23 July 1941, the first armed action by the antifascist partisans in Banija region, and in Croatia as a whole, was conducted in Banski Grabovac, under the leadership of Vasilj Gaćeša.[2] [3] In Ustaša reprisals against civilian population, that followed shortly, about 1200 civilians were killed in the Banski Grabovac massacre. There are two monuments in this area, the Monument of the Uprising and Monument to the Victims of Fascism, by Petar Salopek, featuring the lyrics of Croatian poet Jure Kaštelan.
According to the 2011 census, the village of Grabovac Banski has 200 inhabitants. This represents 36.23% of its pre-war population according to the 1991 census.
According to the 1991 census,[4] 88.04% of the village population were ethnic Serbs (486/552), 4.71% were ethnic Croats (26/552), 5.62% were Yugoslavs (31/552), while 1.63% were of other ethnic origin (9/552).