Županja
| Županja | |||
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| Grad Županja | |||
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 Županja
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| 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 |
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| County |  Vukovar-Syrmia |
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| Government[1][2][3] | |||
| • Type | Mayor-council | ||
| • Mayor | Davor Miličević (HDZ) | ||
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19 members
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| Population (2011)[4] | |||
| • Total | 12,185 | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal codes | 32270[5] | ||
| Area code | 032[6] | ||
| License plates | ŽU | ||
| Website | http://www.zupanja.hr | ||
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Županja is a city in eastern Slavonia, Croatia, located 254 km east of Zagreb. It is administratively part of the Vukovar-Syrmia county. It is inhabited by 12,185 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.
Map of Županja municipality within the Vukovar-Srijem county (as of 2001)
The 2001 census recorded 96.45% Croats in the municipality. At the time the total population included 2,608 people living in Štitar, a village located immediately to the north, that is no longer part of the same municipality.
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
References
- ^ "Gradonačelnik". Town of Županja (in Croatian). Retrieved 2009-09-13.
- ^ "Gradsko vijeće". Town of Županja (in Croatian). Retrieved 2009-09-13.
- ^ "5. izborna jedinica". Vjesnik (in Croatian). Retrieved 2009-09-13.
- ^ a b "Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011, First Results by Settlements" (HTML). Statistical Reports (in Croatian and English) (Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics) (1441). June 2011. ISSN 1332-0297. Retrieved 2011-09-10.
- ^ "Croatia - postal codes". GeoNames. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
- ^ "Međumjesni promet". T-Com Hrvatska (in Croatian). Retrieved 2009-09-13.
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