Slavsko Polje Explained

Official Name:Slavsko Polje
Native Name:[1]
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Croatia
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Slavsko Polje in Croatia
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Coordinates:45.3653°N 15.8128°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Croatia
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Continental Croatia
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Sisak-Moslavina County
Subdivision Type3:Municipality
Subdivision Name3:Gvozd
Unit Pref:Metric
Area Footnotes:[2]
Area Total Km2:16.0
Elevation M:167
Population As Of:2021
Population Total:215
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:CET
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset:+1
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Postal Code Type:Postal codes
Postal Code:44410
Area Code:(+385) 44

Slavsko Polje (Serbian: Славско Поље)[1] is a village in central Croatia, in the municipality of Gvozd, Sisak-Moslavina County. It is connected by the D6 highway.

History

In the late 17th century, the village became a part of the Military Frontier. In the 18th century, it belonged to the Glina regiment. The development of the Vrginmost-Karlovac railway line in 1905 was important for the village's development as it provided employment (i.e. railway maintenance work) and allowed residents to seek employment and engage in trade further afield. In 1918, the village became a part of the Serbian-Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom and later on, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

The village suffered heavy demographic losses in World War II with 417 of its residents perishing. Of those, 235 were civilian victims of fascism while 81 died as partisan resistance fighters, and others succumbed to typhoid. In the Glina massacres alone, 136 men and boys lost their lives in early August 1941. The first residents losing their lives already in May 1941 perished in the Jadovno concentration camp while some of its captured partisans died as prisoners of war in far away Norway. After being heavily hit by the brutal Ustaše campaign in summer 1941, the population joined the antifascist resistance movement en masse.[3]

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, the village of Slavsko Polje has 338 inhabitants. This represents 44.95% of its pre-war population according to the 1991 census.

Population by ethnicity[4]

Year of census total others
2011 338 323 (95.56%) 14 (4.14%)- 1 (0.3%)
2001 375 n/a n/a - n/a
1991 752 698 (92.82%) 8 (1.06%) 13 (1.73%) 33 (4.39%)
1981 985 883 (89.65%) 8 (0.81%)82 (8.33%) 12 (1.21%)
1971 1 115 1 100 (98.66%) 8 (0.72%) 1 (0.08%) 6 (0.54%)


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References

45.3653°N 15.8128°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.
  2. cs1.
  3. Web site: Kotar Vrginmost u NO borbi 1941-1945./District of Vrginmost during National Liberation War 1941-1945 . znaci.net . https://web.archive.org/web/20130510220054/http://www.znaci.net/00001/142_47.pdf . 1980 . 10 May 2013 . 789-813.
  4. Izdanje Državnog zavoda za statistiku RH: Narodnosni sastav stanovništva RH od 1880-1991. godine.