Glina, Croatia

Glina is a town in central Croatia, located southwest of Petrinja and Sisak in the Sisak-Moslavina County. It lies on the eponymous river of Glina.

Glina
Town
Grad Glina Town of Glina
Glina in February 2019
Glina Location of Glina in Croatia
Coordinates: 45°20′N 16°5′E
Country	Croatia
Region	Continental Croatia (Banovina)
County	Sisak-Moslavina
Government
• Mayor	Stjepan Kostanjević (HDZ)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	9,283
• City itself	4,680
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	www.grad-glina.hr

Serbian Orthodox church in Glina

History

Glina was first mentioned as a city in June 1284. Later in September 1737, during the threat of the Turks, the Croatian Sabor met in Glina. It was also a post of Ban Jelačić when he became the commander the Military Frontier during the Turkish threat.

During the mid-18th century, Count Ivan Drašković created Freemason lodges in several Croatian cities and towns, including Glina, where officers and other members shared ideas of the Jacobins from the French Revolution, until Emperor Francis II banned them in 1798. In the late 19th and early 20th century, Glina was a district capital in the Zagreb County of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

World War II

During World War II, Glina was part of the Independent State of Croatia established by the Axis powers as a result of the Invasion of Yugoslavia. There were two Ustashe massacres of Serbs in 1941.[2] On 11–12 May 1941, between 260–300 Serbs died, and on 3 August 1941, as many as 2,000 Serbs were killed, most in the town's Serbian Orthodox Church (see Glina massacre). After the end of war in 1964, the Committee for the Construction of Memorials to the July Victims of Fascist Terror in Banija and Kordun sent an request to the Veterans Associations of the People’s Liberation War of Yugoslavia (SUBNOR) to finally build the memorial as the failure to do so is particularly affecting the brotherhood and unity of the people in this region.[2] A memorial house was thereafter built on the site of the destroyed Orthodox church and in 1985, its Executive Committee requested assistance in creating a permanent display for the museum commemorating "the Ustasha slaughtered around 1,200 Serbs from the surroundings of Glina on August 2, 1941," noting that it marked the beginning of the Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia.[2]

Croatian War of Independence

During the Croatian War of Independence (1991–95), Glina was a town in the unrecognised Republic of Serbian Krajina. On September 28, 1990, around 1,500 Serbs from the Glina municipality rebelled against a democratically elected Croatian government and carried out an attack on the police station and stole large quantities of weapons and ammunition from the station depot. In the early summer of 1991, the first major armed clashes between Croatian forces and rebelled Serbs took place in the Glina area. On June 26, a group of armed Serbs attacked the local police station. The second armed attack followed a month later, on July 26, but this time they also attacked civilian area of Jukinac - the northeast suburb of Glina, located along the road to Petrinja, which was until then free because it was protected by the Croatian police (a unit from Bjelovar) and whose inhabitants were loyal to Croatia. Croatian Police and National Guard unites had to withdraw while Croats from Glina (including Jukinac) took refugee in Donji and Gornji Viduševac, villages north of Glina that were free at the time. Subsequently, Glina was completely controlled by the Yugoslav People's Army and the Serb rebels. The remaining non-Serb population from Glina and the surrounding area were mostly expelled while many were taken to internment camps. During the war, Serbs occupied the territory up to the Kupa river, which was followed by many crimes against the civilians in Glinsko Novo Selo, Stankovci and Bučič area.[3] In 1995 future Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić held a meeting in Glina during which he stated, among others that Glina would never be part of Croatia and advocated for it to be a part of Greater Serbia.[4][5] A total of 396 Croatian civilians and soldiers were killed in Glina during the war. On 6 August 1995, Glina was liberated by the Croatian army with the Operation Storm. At the same time, most ethnic Serbs fled. In December 2015, 56 bodies of Serbian civilians and soldiers killed during the action were exhumed from a mass grave in the Gornje Selište municipality.[6]

Demographics

National structure of the municipality of Glina

Year of census	total	Croats	Serbs	Yugoslavs	Other
2011	9,283	6,468 (69.68%)	2,549 (27.46%)	0 (0%)	266 (2.86%)
2001	9,868	6,712 (68%)	2,829 (29%)	0 (0%)	327 (3.31%)
1991	23,040	8,041 (34,90%)	13,975 (60.65%)	473 (2.05%)	551 (2.39%)
1981	25,079	8,961 (35.73%)	14,223 (56.71%)	1,580 (6.30%)	315 (1.26%)
1971	28,336	10,785 (38.06%)	16,936 (59.77%)	381 (1.34%)	234 (0.83%)
1961	27,747	9,152 (33.31%)	18,388 (66.93%)	60 (0.22%)	147 (0,53%)

The results are for the whole municipality of Glina which was larger during previous censuses. In some censuses, people listed themselves as Yugoslavs (not Serbs or Croats).

National structure of the town of Glina

Year of census	total	Croats	Serbs	Yugoslavs	Other
2001	3,116	2,315 (74.29%)	643 (20.64%)	0 (0%)	158 (5.07%)
1991	6,933	1,448 (20.88%)	4,831 (69.68%)	362 (5.22%)	352 (5.08%)
1981	5,790	1,262 (21.79%)	3,531 (60.98%)	870 (15.02%)	127 (2,19%)
1971	4,558	1,394 (30.58%)	2,873 (63.03%)	193 (4.23%)	98 (2.15%)
1961	2,412	884 (36.65%)	1,425 (59.08%)	33 (1.37%)	70 (2.90%)
1948	2,098	1,126 (53.67%)	930 (44.33%)	0 (0%)	42 (2%)

Settlements

The settlements part of the administrative area of Glina, total population 9,283 (census 2011),[1] include:

• Balinac, population 69
• Baturi, population 0
• Bijele Vode, population 67
• Bišćanovo, population 0
• Bojna, population 28
• Borovita, population 17
• Brestik, population 76
• Brezovo Polje, population 24
• Brnjeuška, population 13
• Brubno, population 4
• Buzeta, population 67
• Dabrina, population 86
• Desni Degoj, population 86
• Dolnjaki, population 102
• Donja Bučica, population 54
• Donja Trstenica, population 0
• Donje Jame, population 22
• Donje Selište, population 109
• Donje Taborište, population 40
• Donji Klasnić, population 90
• Donji Selkovac, population 1
• Donji Viduševac, population 179
• Dragotina, population 149
• Drenovac Banski, population 74
• Dvorišće, population 99
• Glina, population 4,680
• Gornja Bučica, population 128
• Gornje Jame, population 0
• Gornje Selište, population 55
• Gornje Taborište, population 56
• Gornji Klasnić, population 41
• Gornji Selkovac, population 0
• Gornji Viduševac, population 468
• Gračanica Šišinečka, population 24
• Hađer, population 50
• Hajtić, population 32
• Ilovačak, population 93
• Joševica, population 37
• Kihalac, population 50
• Kozaperovica, population 46
• Maja, population 168
• Majske Poljane, population 196
• Majski Trtnik, population 36
• Mala Solina, population 15
• Mali Gradac, population 143
• Mali Obljaj, population 34
• Marinbrod, population 93
• Martinovići, population 71
• Momčilovića Kosa, population 36
• Novo Selo Glinsko, population 118
• Prekopa, population 143
• Prijeka, population 57
• Ravno Rašće, population 129
• Roviška, population 46
• Skela, population 41
• Slatina Pokupska, population 88
• Stankovac, population 24
• Svračica, population 44
• Šaševa, population 26
• Šatornja, population 176
• Šibine, population 28
• Trnovac Glinski, population 31
• Trtnik Glinski, population 14
• Turčenica, population 0
• Velika Solina, population 69
• Veliki Gradac, population 126
• Veliki Obljaj, population 22
• Vlahović, population 73
• Zaloj, population 20

Notable people from Glina

• Natko Devčić, Croatian composer
• Slavko Hirsch, Croatian physician
• Zlatko Šulentić, Croatian painter

References

1. "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: Glina". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
2. Vojak, Danijel; Tomić, Filip; Kovačev, Neven (2019). "Remembering the "Victims of Fascist Terror" in the Socialist Republic of Croatia, 1970–1990". History and Memory. 31 (1): 118–150. doi:10.2979/histmemo.31.1.06. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
3. "Zapisi s Banovine 1990., 1991. I 1995".
4. "POSLUŠAJTE VUČIĆEV GOVOR U GLINI 1995. GODINE: Predsjednik Srbije stiže u Hrvatsku, a evo što je kazao nekoliko dana prije Oluje". Net.hr (in Croatian). 31 January 2018.
5. "Vučić hrvatskom novinaru: "Izmislili ste to za Veliku Srbiju", no snimke iz Gline ipak ne lažu". Dnevnik.hr.
6. Croatia Exhumes 56 from Operation Storm Mass Grave, balkaninsight.com, 9 December 2015; accessed 13 December 2015.

External links

• Official website