Žejane
Žejane | |
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Village | |
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  Žejane Location of Žejane in Croatia | |
| Coordinates: 45°26′26″N 14°11′40″E / 45.44056°N 14.19444°E | |
| Country | Croatia |
| County | Primorje-Gorski Kotar |
| Municipality | Matulji |
| Area | |
| • Total | 22.6 km2 (8.7 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 618 m (2,028 ft) |
| Population (2021)[2] | |
| • Total | 105 |
| • Density | 4.6/km2 (12/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 51212 |
Žejane (Istro Romanian: Jeiăn; Italian: Seiane) is a village in the eastern part of the mountainous Ćićarija area in Istria, in western Croatia. Administratively it belongs to the municipality of Matulji in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. In 2011, the population of Žejane was 130.[3]
Description
[edit]The village is 18 km north-west of Matulji, near the municipality road leading from Vele Mune and Male Mune to Opatija and Rijeka, in a karst valley between two mountain ridges.
The village is known for the Ćići: Istro-Romanians who settled here in the late 15th, or early 16th century from 1510 until 1525, when the villages Vele Mune, Male Mune, and Žejane were settled by Krsto Frankopan.[4][5]
Demography
[edit]| Population number according to the census[6] | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1857 | 1869 | 1880 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1921 | 1931 | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 |
| 505 | 546 | 531 | 565 | 601 | 596 | 547 | 540 | 511 | 493 | 383 | 379 | 250 | 189 | 141 | 130 |
Citations
[edit]- ^ Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata Q119585703.
- ^ "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
- ^ Census 2011.
- ^ Ribarić 2002, pp. 79, 78.
- ^ Ribarić 2002, p. 61.
- ^ Bureau of Statistics n.d.
Bibliography
[edit]- "Naselja i stanovništvo Republike Hrvatske 1857-2001" [Settlements and population of the Republic of Croatia] (in Croatian). Croatian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
- Ribarić, Josip (2002). O istarskim dijalektima: razmještaj južnoslavenskih dijalekata na poluotoku Istri s opisom vodičkog govora (in Croatian). Pazin: Josip Turčinović.
- "Stanovništvo prema starosti i spolu po naseljima, popisi 2011" (in Croatian). Croatian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
- Zbornik općine Lanišće [Anthology of Lanišče municipality, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012] (in Croatian). Pazin: Josip Turčinović.
- "Žejane". Istrian Encyclopedia. 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
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