Pitomača

Municipality of Croatia

Place in Virovitica-Podravina, Croatia

45°57′02.16″N 17°13′45.84″E / 45.9506000°N 17.2294000°E / 45.9506000; 17.2294000Country

CroatiaCountyVirovitica-PodravinaArea

^[1]

• Total158.0 km² (61.0 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

• Total8,402 • Density53/km² (140/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Websitepitomaca.hr

Pitomača is a village and a municipality in Croatia in the Virovitica–Podravina County.

In the 2011 census, it had a total population of 10,059, in the following settlements:^[3]

In the same census, 98.62% were Croats.^[4]

History

Since the end of the Ottoman Empire until 1918, Pitomača (named PITOMACA before 1850)^[5] was part of the Austrian monarchy (Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia after the compromise of 1867), in the Croatian Military Frontier, Warasdin-St. Georgener Regiment N°VI.^[6]

^ Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata Q119585703.
^ "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2021 Census". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
^ "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: Pitomača". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
^ "Population by Ethnicity, by Towns/Municipalities, 2011 Census: Pitomača". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
^ Handbook of Austria and Lombardy-Venetia Cancellations on the Postage Stamp Issues 1850-1864, by Edwin MUELLER, 1961.
^ Probably until 1881.