Bjelovar

Bjelovar
	City
Bjelovar
	Horv. Bjelovar
Flag	Emblem
A country	Croatia
County	Belovarsko-Bilogorsk
History and Geography
Based
First mention	1413
Square	;
Center height	135 m
Timezone	UTC + 1 , in summer UTC + 2
Population
Population	28 398 people ( 2006 )
Digital identifiers
Telephone code	+385 43
Postcode	43000
Car code	Bj
	bjelovar.hr (Croatian)

Bjelovar ^[1] ^[2] (formerly referred to as Belovar , Croat. Bjelovar ) is a city in Croatia , in the central part of the country. The capital and largest city of the county of Bjelovarsko-Bilogorsk . The population is 27 783 ^[3] people in the city and 41 869 ^[3] people in the whole community according to the 2001 census , 28 398 people according to 2006 data . More than 90% of the population of the city are Croats ^[4] .

Content

General information

Bjelovar is located on a flat plateau, between the rivers Sava and Drava , to the north-east of the city there is a long chain of low hills, known as Bilogora , the highest point of the chain is 309 meters above sea level.

Bjelovar is located 70 kilometers east of the country's capital Zagreb . The city of Djurdjevac is located 25 kilometers to the northeast, Krizhevtsi is 30 kilometers to the north-west, Vrbovec is 38 kilometers to the west.

Highways connect Bjelovar with Dzurdzhevac, Krizhevtsy, Vrbovec; and also lead east of the country towards Daruvar and Virovititsa . The city ends with a small dead end railway line Krizhevtsi - Bjelovar.

History

View of the Cathedral of St. Theresa from the city park

Bjelovar is one of the few cities in Posava Croatia that does not have an ancient history. It was first mentioned in 1413 , but received real significance only in the second half of the 18th century , when it became part of Krajina , a special administrative formation of the Habsburg Empire, created to protect against the Turks. The fortified fort in Bjelovar was built in 1756 . In 1874, was proclaimed a free royal city.

Fountain in Bjelovar - “The Return of the Pannonian Whales”

In 1920, the city became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , later Yugoslavia . In 1941-1945 was part of the Independent State of Croatia . Not far from the city there was a mass murder of Serbs by the Ustashi , known as the massacre in Gudovac . Since 1991 - as part of independent Croatia. During the Croatian War of Independence, Bjelovar became the scene of battles between Croatian paramilitary units and the local UNA garrison, which damaged many buildings. Then there was the Massacre in Belovar . The damage caused to the buildings of the city is now completely eliminated.

Demographics

The ethnic composition of the city ^[4] , according to the 2001 census, 90.51% of the population were Croats , 4.73% - Serbs , 0.47% - Albanians , 0.45% - Czechs and 0.26 - Hungarians .

Attractions

The main attraction of the city is the Baroque Cathedral of St. Theresa , built in 1772 . With the formation in December 2009 of a diocese with a center in Bjelovar received the status of a cathedral.

Economics

In the village of Gudovac and the surroundings of Bjelovar, the Bjelovar Fair , one of the largest exhibitions in the Balkans, is held.

Famous Natives

Boris Buzanchich - actor and politician ( mayor of Zagreb in 1990-1993).
Goran Tribuson is a writer , one of the most famous prose writers of modern Croatian literature.
Ognen Vukoevich - football player , defensive midfielder of the Dynamo club ( Kiev ) and the national team of Croatia .
Bogdan Diklich is a Yugoslav and Serbian actor.
Philip Ozobić - footballer , midfielder of the Moscow Spartak and the youth team of Croatia .
Gordan Jandrokovic is a politician, the current vice president of the Croatian government and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration.
Giurgia Adlesic is a woman politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia in 2008 - 2010 .
Ivan Gubiyan - Yugoslav athlete, silver medalist of the 1948 Olympics.
Edo Murtic - artist
Warrior Bakic - Croatian sculptor of Serbian descent
Momchilo Bayagic - Serbian rock musician

Notes

↑ Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Albania // Atlas of the world / comp. and preparation. to the ed. PKO "Cartography" in 2009; ch. ed. G.V. Pozdnyak . - M .: PKO "Cartography": Onyx, 2010. - S. 70-71. - ISBN 978-5-85120-295-7 (Cartography). - ISBN 978-5-488-02609-4 (Onyx).
↑ Bjelovar // Dictionary of geographical names of foreign countries / resp. ed. A.M. Komkov . - 3rd ed., Revised. and add. - M .: Nedra , 1986.- S. 65.
↑ ¹ ² Distribution of the population by sex and age, by settlement - Central Bureau of Statistics of Croatia (English)
↑ ¹ ² Population by Nationality, by City, and Municipality - Central Bureau of Statistics of Croatia (English)

Links

bjelovar.hr (Croatian) - Bjelovar official website

[1] Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Albania // Atlas of the world / comp. and preparation. to the ed. PKO "Cartography" in 2009; ch. ed. G.V. Pozdnyak . - M .: PKO "Cartography": Onyx, 2010. - S. 70-71. - ISBN 978-5-85120-295-7 (Cartography). - ISBN 978-5-488-02609-4 (Onyx).

[2] Bjelovar // Dictionary of geographical names of foreign countries / resp. ed. A.M. Komkov . - 3rd ed., Revised. and add. - M .: Nedra , 1986.- S. 65.

[dsz1-3] ¹ ² Distribution of the population by sex and age, by settlement - Central Bureau of Statistics of Croatia (English)

[dsz2-4] ¹ ² Population by Nationality, by City, and Municipality - Central Bureau of Statistics of Croatia (English)