Oriovac is a village and a municipality in Brod-Posavina County, Croatia. It is approximately 23km west of Slavonski Brod and near the Sava river plain. The municipality is of an area of 99 km2 including ten settlements of which Oriovac is the main administrative center.
History
According to the town's historical chronicler, Marijan Machalla, the earliest mention of the town dates back to 1220. In 1535 it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire, evidence seen to this day in a 17th century fountain. In the late 1600s it became a military frontier built by the Habsburg Monarch following the Ottoman withdrawal.
Until 1918, Oriovac (named Oriowacz before 1850)Handbook of Austria and Lombardy-Venetia Cancellations on the Postage Stamp Issues 1850-1864, by Edwin Mueller, 1961. was part of the Austrian monarchy (Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia after the compromise of 1867), in the Slavonian Military Frontier, Gradiskaner Regiment N°VIII before its dissolution in 1881.
Demographics In 2021, the municipality had 4,770 residents in the following 10 settlements:
Bečic, population 95 Ciglenik, population 133 Kujnik, population 248 Lužani, population 850 Malino, population 410 Oriovac, population 1490 Pričac, population 90 Radovanje, population 231 Slavonski Kobaš, population 1034 Živike, population 189
Notable people
Fran Gundrum, physician and encyclopedist
See also Oriovac railway station
References
Povijest općine Oriovac