Stari Jankovci

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Stari Jankovci
Stari Jankovci.jpg
Official seal of Stari Jankovci
Location of Stari Jankovci
Stari Jankovci is located in Croatia
Stari Jankovci
Stari Jankovci
Location in Croatia
Coordinates: 45°16′N 18°55′E / 45.267°N 18.917°E / 45.267; 18.917Coordinates: 45°16′N 18°55′E / 45.267°N 18.917°E / 45.267; 18.917
Country Croatia
RegionSyrmia (Podunavlje)
County Vukovar-Syrmia
Government
 • Municipal mayorIvo Lozić (HDZ)[1]
Area
 • Total95.55 km2 (36.89 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[3]
 • Total4,405
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
Area code(s)32
Vehicle registrationVK
Websiteo-jankovci.hr

Stari Jankovci (Serbian Cyrillic: Стари Јанковци, Hungarian: Ivanóc) is a village and a municipality in Vukovar-Syrmia County, Croatia

The village is located to the northeast of the Vinkovci-Tovarnik-Šid main railway route. The village is connected with the rest of the country by the D46 state road conecting it with the town of Vinkovci and continuing into Serbia as the State Road 120 to the nearest town of Šid.

Population[]

The population is distributed in the following settlements:[3]

The total municipality population was 5,216 in 2001, with 69.50% Croats, 23.24% Serbs and 5.06% Hungarians.

History[]

During the Croatian War of Independence, the village was occupied by the rebel Serbs in 1991. The parish church of Blessed Virgin Mary, built in 1780 with a notable Baroque-Classical main altar, was severely damaged.

Stari Jankovci is an underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as the First Category Area of Special State Concern by the Government of Croatia.[4]

Name[]

The name Stari Jankovci means Old Jankovci, while to the southwest there is a smaller village of Novi Jankovci, meaning New Jankovci.

The name of the village in Croatian is plural.

History[]

Traces of continuous human settlement at the area of the municipality are investigated at two prehistoric settlements and one necropolis, one archaeological site from antiquity and medieval necropolis "Balkan".[2]

Municipality government[]

The municipality assembly is composed of 15 representatives. As of 2009, the member parties/lists are:[1]

  Party Number of votes Number of seats
  Croatian Democratic Union 611 5
  Independent Democratic Serb Party 433 3
  Croatian Peasant Party 356 3
  291 2
  Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja 132 1
  Croatian Party of Rights 115 1

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Informacija o rezultatima izbora članova predstavničkih tijela jedinica lokalne i područne (regionalne) samouprave" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-03-10.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Općine na područjima posebne državne skrbi Republike Hrvatske" (PDF). Croatian Chamber of Economy. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: Stari Jankovci". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
  4. ^ Lovrinčević, Željko; Davor, Mikulić; Budak, Jelena (June 2004). "AREAS OF SPECIAL STATE CONCERN IN CROATIA- REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT DIFFERENCES AND THE DEMOGRAPHIC AND EDUCATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS". Ekonomski pregled, Vol.55 No.5-6. Retrieved 25 August 2018.

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