Popovac, Osijek-Baranja County
Popovac | |
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Popovac municipality within Osijek-Baranja County | |
| Coordinates: 45°48′33.12″N 18°39′29.88″E / 45.8092000°N 18.6583000°E | |
| Country | Croatia |
| Region | Baranya (Podunavlje) |
| County | Osijek-Baranja |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Zoran Kontak |
| Area | |
| 62.4 km2 (24.1 sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 27.6 km2 (10.7 sq mi) |
| Population (2021) | |
| 1,446 | |
| • Density | 23/km2 (60/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 738 |
| • Urban density | 27/km2 (69/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (Central European Time) |
| Website | popovac |
Popovac (Hungarian: Baranyabán, Serbian Cyrillic: Поповац) is a village and municipality in Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia. There are 2,084 inhabitants in the municipality (2011 census). Popovac is an underdeveloped municipality, which is statistically classified as the First Category Area of Special State Concern by the Government of Croatia.
Until the end of World War II, the majority of the inhabitants was Danube Swabian, also called locally as Stifolder, because their ancestors arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries from Fulda (district). Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945-1948, as a result of the Potsdam Agreement.
Popovac is known for its fish festival (fišijada), which is organized in September every year.