Mijači

Mijači
Village
Mijači
Coordinates: 45°26′49″N 17°28′14″E
Country	Croatia
County	Požega-Slavonia County
Municipality	Brestovac
Area [1]
• Total	8.5 km^2 (3.3 sq mi)
Elevation	246 m (807 ft)
Population  (2021)[2]
• Total	10
• Density	1.2/km^2 (3.0/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	34320
Area code	034

Mijači (Serbian Cyrillic: Мијачи) is a village in the Brestovac municipality of the Požega-Slavonia County, Croatia. According to the 2001 census, there were 18 inhabitants in the village. The village is connected by the D38 state road.

History

The village was known as Mihači until 1900.

During the World War II in Yugoslavia, in 1943,[3] the Yugoslav Partisans formed the 18th National Liberation Brigade in the village, in which the fighters of the 1st and 2nd Slavonian NOP Units, including the whole 2nd Band of the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd NOP Unit were joined.[4] In 1944, the Croatian fascist Ustaše had set up camp in the village, with 45 soldiers, and the Partisan Ljubuški battalion had driven them out after an hour.[5]

In the prelude of the Croatian War, the village was part of the SAO Western Slavonia, and subsequently the Republic of Serbian Krajina.

Demographic history

Ethnic group	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001[6]
Serbs						76 (78,35%)
Croats						5 (5,15%)
Others						16 (16,49%)
Total[7]	224	206	207	163	126	97	18

• 1857: 115
• 1869: 130
• 1880: 166
• 1890: 133
• 1900: 172
• 1910: 371
• 1921: 205
• 1931: 281

Sources

1. Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata Q119585703.
2. "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
3. Slavica Hrečkovski, 1965, Građa za historiju narodnooslobodilac̆kog pokreta u Slavoniji, Volume 4, p. : "prema selu Mijači, gdje je ' 1943. formirana XVIII ..."
4. Stjepan Brlošić, Đakovština u narodnooslobodilačkoj borbi i socijalističkoj revoluciji: 1941-1945, Skupština općine, 1986, p. : "U selu Mijači, kotar Slavonska Požega, formirana 18. NO brigada. U sastav brigade ušli su borci 1. i 2. slavonskog NOP odreda sa cijelom 2. četom 2. bataljona 2. NOP odreda."
5. Ivo Smoljan, Neretva, KLEK, 1988, p. : "PO sa jedinicama Ljubuškog bataljona napali su neprijateljski garnizon u Mijači u kome je bilo 45 ustaša. Poslije jednog sata borbe neprijatelj je bio protjeran."
6. "2001 census by settlement". Central Bureau of Statistics (Croatia) (in Croatian). March 31, 2001. Retrieved September 17, 2010.
7. Croatia censuses 1948-1991