Gorjani, Croatia

Gorjani

Gara
Gorjani Gara
Municipality
	Gorjani Location in Croatia Gorjani Gorjani (Croatia)
	Coordinates: 45°24′N 18°22′E / 45.40°N 18.37°E
Country	Croatia
County	Osijek-Baranja
Government
• Mayor	Ivan Lović
Area
• Municipality	50.9 km2 (19.7 sq mi)
• Urban	37.7 km2 (14.6 sq mi)
Population (2021)
• Municipality	1,246
• Density	24/km2 (63/sq mi)
• Urban	794
• Urban density	21/km2 (55/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (Central European Time)
Website	gorjani.hr

Gorjani (Hungarian: Gara; German: Gerendau, Görrach) is a village and a municipality in Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia.

In the 2011 census, there were a total of 1,550 inhabitants, in the following settlements:^[3]

Gorjani, population 1,008
Tomašanci, population 583

In the same census, 97% were Croats.^[4]

Gorjani village was the seat of the House of Garai (Garay), a Hungarian-Croatian noble family, and a branch of the Dorozsma (Durusma) clan.

Name

The name of the village in Croatian is plural.

History

King Béla IV of Hungary granted the eponymous domain of Gara to John of Clan Dorozsma and his son, Stephen, in 1269. The charter of grant mentioned that Stephen was swordbearer to the King's son, Béla, Duke of Slavonia.^[5] Stephen's sons, Andrew and Paul, were the ancestors of the two branches of the family.^[6] Andrew's son, Nicholas I Garai was Palatine of Hungary from 1375 until his death. Near Gorjani, he courageously defended his cousin and sovereign, Queen Mary of Hungary, and her mother, Elizabeth of Bosnia, from rebels.

Gorjani in 1387 was already a market town, which by 1478 held weekly markets.^[7]

After the Garai family died out, some of their estates were inherited by the Zay of Csömör family, others were granted to John Corvinus.

References

^ 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.
^ "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: Gorjani". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
^ "Population by Ethnicity, by Towns/Municipalities, 2011 Census: County of Osijek-Baranja". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
^ Árvai 2013, p. 104.
^ Árvai 2013, pp. 104–105.
^ Csánki Dezső (1894). Magyarország történelmi földrajza a Hunyadiak korában II. kötet – Pozsega vármegye (in Hungarian). Budapest.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Works cited

Árvai, Tünde (2013). "A házasságok szerepe a Garaiak hatalmi törekvéseiben [The role of marriages in the Garais' attempts to rise]". In Fedeles, Tamás; Font, Márta; Kiss, Gergely (eds.). Kor-Szak-Határ (in Hungarian). Pécsi Tudományegyetem. pp. 103–118. ISBN 978-963-642-518-0.