Županja

Županja
Town
Grad Županja
Županja city center
Flag Coat of arms
Županja Location of Županja in Croatia
Coordinates: 45°04′12″N 18°42′00″E / 45.07000°N 18.70000°ECoordinates: 45°04′12″N 18°42′00″E / 45.07000°N 18.70000°E
Country	Croatia
County	Vukovar-Syrmia
Government[1][2][3]
• Type	Mayor-council
• Mayor	Davor Miličević (HDZ)
• City council	19 members Gabrijel Galović Ante Juko Pejo Nedić Ivan Miličić Nada Galović Katarina Andrašić Andrija Lučić Marko Nikolić Krešimir Matić Pero Ćatić Ivan Grigić Mijo Perkunić Marko Marijanović Zlatko Cegledi Ivica Šarić Željka Jambrešić Marko Dugandžić
Population (2011)[4]
• Total	12,090
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal codes	32270[5]
Area code	032[6]
License plates	ŽU
Website	www.zupanja.hr

Županja (pronounced [ʒǔpaɲa]) is a town in eastern Slavonia, Croatia, located 254 km east of Zagreb. It is administratively part of the Vukovar-Srijem County. It is inhabited by 12,090 people (2011).^[4]

Županja lies on the Sava river opposite Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is the site of a border-crossing bridge with the mostly Croat 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.^[7]

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)^[8] 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.

Demographics

Historical populations of Županja
Year Pop. ±% 1880 4,280 —     1890 5,161 +20.6% 1900 5,347 +3.6% 1910 5,019 −6.1% 1921 4,747 −5.4% 1931 5,103 +7.5% 1948 6,537 +28.1%	Year Pop. ±% 1953 7,391 +13.1% 1961 9,339 +26.4% 1971 11,476 +22.9% 1981 12,679 +10.5% 1991 14,435 +13.8% 2001 16,383 +13.5% 2011 12,090 −26.2%
Source: Naselja i stanovništvo Republike Hrvatske 1857–2001, Croatian Bureau of Statistics, Zagreb, 2005

Notable people

• Amiel Shomrony - cantor of the Jewish community in Zagreb and secretary of Zagreb's chief rabbi Miroslav Šalom Freiberger during the World War II
• Srećko (Felix) Albini - Croatian composer and conductor
• Dario Župarić, Croatian footballer born in 1992

Gallery

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  Residential buildings
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  Defenders memorial
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  Županja railway station

References

1. "Gradonačelnik". Town of Županja (in Croatian). Retrieved 2009-09-13.
2. "Gradsko vijeće". Town of Županja (in Croatian). Retrieved 2009-09-13.
3. "5. izborna jedinica". Vjesnik (in Croatian). Retrieved 2009-09-13.
4. "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: Županja". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
5. "Croatia - postal codes". GeoNames. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
6. "Međumjesni promet". T-Com Hrvatska (in Croatian). Retrieved 2009-09-13.
7. "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: County of Vukovar-Sirmium". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
8. Handbook of Austria and Lombardy-Venetia Cancellations on the Postage Stamp Issues 1850-1864, by Edwin MUELLER, 1961.

External links

• Official website