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Čeminac
Summary
Čeminac (Laskafalu, Чеминац, Laschkafeld) is a village and municipality in Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia. There are 2,856 inhabitants in the municipality. Čeminac is underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as the First Category Area of Special State Concern by the Government of Croatia.
Čeminac is located in the central part of Croatian Baranja and it is surrounded by the municipalities of: Jagodnjak, Beli Manastir, Kneževi Vinogradi, Bilje, and Darda.
The municipality of Čeminac includes the following settlements:
Čeminac
Grabovac
Kozarac
Mitrovac
Novi Čeminac
This Village was established by the Danube Swabians (Schwowe) in 1720 from Fulda and Eisfeld, locally also called Stifolder. The Čeminac area was home to a sizeable Danube Swabians population before the end of World War II. With the Red Army's crossing of the Danube at Batina most of these Germans left, and their property was confiscated by Communist Yugoslavia's government.
There are 3,500 inhabitants in 1,100 households living in the area of Čeminac.
Ethnic groups in the municipality (2011 census):
88.24% Croats
5.91% Serbs
3.09% Hungarians
0.93% Germans
Directly elected minority councils and representatives are tasked with consulting tasks for the local or regional authorities in which they are advocating for minority rights and interests, integration into public life and participation in the management of local affairs. At the 2023 Croatian national minorities councils and representatives elections Hungarians and Serbs of Croatia each fulfilled legal requirements to elect 10 members municipal minority councils of the Čeminac Municipality but the elections were not held for either one of them due to the lack of candidates.
The coat of arms of Čeminac is Azure a Lion rampant double-queued Or holding a Plough-share Argent.
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