Viljevo

Viljevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Виљево, Hungarian: Villyó) is a village and a municipality in Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia.

Viljevo
Municipality
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Coordinates: 45.75°N 18.06°E / 45.75; 18.06
Country	Croatia
County	Osijek-Baranja
Government
• Mayor	Ivan Fekete
Area [1]
• Municipality	111.3 km2 (43.0 sq mi)
• Urban	38.5 km2 (14.9 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]
• Municipality	1,626
• Density	15/km2 (38/sq mi)
• Urban	987
• Urban density	26/km2 (66/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (Central European Time)
Website	viljevo.hr

In the 2011, there were 2,065 inhabitants, in the following settlements:^[3]

• Blanje, population 43
• Bockovac, population 51
• Cret Viljevski, population 80
• Ivanovo, population 290
• Kapelna, population 294
• Krunoslavje, population 89
• Viljevo, population 1,218

In the same census, 81.26% of the population were Croats, 16.46% Serbs, 1.36% Roma.^[4]

Colonist settlements of Blanje, Čret, and Krunoslavlje were established on the territory of the village municipality during the land reform in interwar Yugoslavia.^[5]

Politics

Minority councils

Directly elected minority councils and representatives are tasked with consulting the local or regional authorities to advocate for minority rights and interests, integration into public life and participation in the management of local affairs.^[6] At the 2023 Croatian national minorities councils and representatives elections, Roma and Serbs of Croatia each fulfilled the legal requirements to elect 10 members municipal minority councils of the Viljevo Municipality.^[7]