Županja Explained

Županja
Official Name:Grad Županja
Town of Županja
Settlement Type:Town
Flag Size:75px
Pushpin Map:Croatia Vukovar-Srijem County#Croatia#Europe
Pushpin Mapsize:250
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Županja in Croatia
Pushpin Label Position:left
Coordinates:45.07°N 18.7°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Croatia
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Posavina
Subdivision Type2:County
Established Title1:Municipality
Government Footnotes:[1] [2] [3]
Government Type:Mayor-council
Leader Party:Ind.
Leader Title:Mayor
Leader Name:Damir Juzbašić
Leader Title2:City council
Area Footnotes:[4]
Area Total Km2:50.2
Area Urban Km2:50.2
Population As Of:2021
Population Total:9153
Population Density Km2:auto
Population Urban:9153
Population Density Urban Km2:auto
Timezone:CET
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset:+1
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Postal Code Type:Postal codes
Postal Code:HR-32 270[5]
Area Code Type:Area code
Area Code:+385 32[6]
Blank Name:License plates
Blank Info:ŽU

Županja (in Croatian pronounced as /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).

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.

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)[7] 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.

Sports

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

Notable people

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gradonačelnik. 13 September 2009. Town of Županja . Croatian.
  2. Web site: Gradsko vijeće. 13 September 2009. Town of Županja. Croatian.
  3. Web site: 5. izborna jedinica. Vjesnik. 13 September 2009. Croatian. 12 May 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090512005655/http://www.vjesnik.com/Izbori%5F2007/Lista.asp?j=5. dead.
  4. cs1.
  5. Web site: Croatia - postal codes . 2009-09-13 . GeoNames.
  6. Web site: Međumjesni promet . 2009-09-13 . T-Com Hrvatska . Croatian . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720064604/http://www.t-com.hr/privatni/telefon/pozivi/pozivni/medumjesni.asp . 2011-07-20 .
  7. Handbook of Austria and Lombardy-Venetia Cancellations on the Postage Stamp Issues 1850-1864, by Edwin MUELLER, 1961.