Sunia ( Croatian. Sunja ) is a community with a center in the village of the same name in the central part of Croatia , in the Sisak-Moslavina County .
| Community | |
| Suna | |
|---|---|
| Sunja | |
| A country |  Croatia |
| County | Sisak-Moslavinskaya |
| History and Geography | |
| Timezone | UTC + 1 , in summer UTC + 2 |
| Population | |
| Population | 5748 people ( 2011 ) |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Postcode | 44210 |
| sunja.hr (Croatian) | |
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Population
The population of the community is 5748 people ( 2011 ), the population of the village is 1412 people [1] . In addition to the administrative center, the community includes 41 more villages.
Most of the population of the community are Croats - 54.2%, Serbs account for 22.3% [2] .
Geography
The village of Sunya is located at the junction of the historical regions of Posavin and Banovin , stands on both banks of the same river in its lower reaches. The villages of the community are located in the lowlands along which the Suna and Sava flow, into which it flows and known as the Sunsko Pole. 12 km south of the village is the city of Khrvatsk-Kostainitsa , 15 km to the north-west - Sisak . There is a railway station in the village on the Sisak-Khrvatsk-Kostaynitsa line, D224 Sisak- Khrvatska-Dubitsa highways and D521 Suna-Khrvatska-Kostaynitsa branching off from it pass through the Sun.
History
At the beginning of the 16th century, Suna belonged to the aristocratic Keglevich family. As a result of Turkish raids, most of these lands were deserted, then became part of the Military Border , and after repelling the Turkish threat, it came under the civilian control of Croatia as part of the Habsburg Empire.
Parish Church of Souni - St. Mary Magdalene was built in 1824 in the late Baroque style [3] .
During the 1991–1995 Croatian war , Suna was attacked by units of the self-proclaimed Serbian Krajina , but the village’s defenders managed to defend it, although many buildings were destroyed in battle [4] .