Živaja
| Živaja | |
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| Village | |
 Živaja
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| Coordinates: 45°14′N 16°43′E / 45.233°N 16.717°ECoordinates: 45°14′N 16°43′E / 45.233°N 16.717°E | |
| Country | Croatia |
| County | Sisak-Moslavina |
| Area | |
| • Total | 30 km2 (10 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 309 |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Postal code | 44450 |
| Area code(s) | 044 |
Živaja is a village in central Croatia in Hrvatska Dubica, a municipality of Sisak-Moslavina County.
Živaja is located between Dubica and Sunja. Živaja village is 7 kilometers long and is one of the longest villages in the region. It is spread over approximately 30 square kilometers. Due to its position between two rivers, the Sava and Una, the village forms a horseshoe shape.
The village features "ušorenog type" (dense housing) as well as typical suburban housing on either side of a main road. The railroad extends parallel to the road in the direction of south-east north-west (direction Hr.Dubica-Sisak) on the right side of the road. This part of village is nearly flat and ideal lowland part. The right of the village is in the same flat; lowland continues for 1.5-2 km, to the great forest farms that extends back in the same valley to the Sava River. The left part of the road about 50-100 m is also the same plane on which supplements a gentle hills difference in altitude is not greater than 10-20 km compared to his village and this flat, and not too steep. Upon leaving the hilltops and again extends a plain, plateau, which extends about 4-5km and descends in Pounje (river valley Una).
According to data gathered in 2001, the village has 484 inhabitants and approximately 290 houses. In 1991, Živaja had 726 residents, and in 1969 there were 800.
Of individual documents on population in this area, the Banovina, there is one from the year 1687. The document Croatian ban Nikola Erdödy call Zagreb Bishop Martin Borkovića to allow colonization by Serbs Bović and Kirin, which were in possession bishops. Sometime later Petrinjska count Erdödy Francis, the year 1693. sets Prince Peter Draskovic for chief Serbs in Slabinji and other surrounding areas. Lower Banovina had their possessions the family of Croatian nobles Keglević. Because of their possessions around Blinje they were with the sukobljavali constantly Turks. For this reason, Croatian aristocrat Peter Keglević inhabits Wallachian families around Petrinja. The year 1697. leads Vlahe wrong. That same year, Serbs are settled in and around Sunja. Two years later, in 1699 was inhabited by Živaja.
After World War II population in the village focused mainly agricultural production and livestock breeding as the primary branches. The country's economy is run in a very primitive way, using animals to assist in a lot of human work. Were to chipped households, with a small number of livestock and small land parcel. Owing to its very difficult work, people were able to vegetate and recover from the terrors of war (1945 whole village was in ash). Productivity was very weak, and the daily work hard and tiring. Because of proximity to city centers (Petrinja, Sisak, Zagreb) and the existence of traffic connections with those cities, industrialization development, the late fifties and early sixties of the last century, people are increasingly going to work in factories. A large part of male population was employed in the cities. Thanks to daily migrations of people are, in addition to working in factories, managed to sustain agricultural production and even the more they build on a higher level. As time went by all over the went young people in the cities of the training. Given the popularity of the then no life at the village and on agriculture, after schooling the young are mainly employed and remained in the cities.
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