Village in Baranya, Croatia
Luč (Hungarian : Lőcs , German : Lutsch , Serbian Cyrillic : Луч ) is a settlement in the region of Baranja , Croatia. Administratively, it is located in the Petlovac municipality within the Osijek-Baranja County . Population is 322 people.[ 3]
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) .[ 4] Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Allied-occupied Germany and Allied-occupied Austria in 1945-1948, consequent to the Potsdam Agreement .[ 5]
Population
Ethnic composition, 1991. census
Luč
1991
total: 735
ethnically undeclared 4 (0.54%)
unknown 2 (0.27%)
Austria-Hungary 1910. census
Luč
Population by ethnicity
Population by religion
References
Literature
Book: "Narodnosni i vjerski sastav stanovništva Hrvatske, 1880–1991: po naseljima, autor: Jakov Gelo, izdavač: Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, 1998., ISBN 953-6667-07-X , ISBN 978-953-6667-07-9 ;
See also