PREKODRAVLJE-REPAŠ, DEVELOPMENT OF THE SETTLEMENT AND POPULATION
PREKODRAVLJE-REPAŠ, DEVELOPMENT OF THE SETTLEMENT AND POPULATION

Summary/Abstract: Prekodravlje is an area in Croatia between the Drava River and its left tributary, the Ždalica River. This is a markedly lowland area of the Drava alluvial plain, with a total surface of 88.78 km2. It has six settlements with a total population of 3,286 according to the 2001 census. Prekodravlje is an area that has a long history of human habitation, but the current settlements are relatively young – as most of them emerged as the result of development in the early nineteenth century. An analysis of population trends, natural growth and the migration balance has shown that Prekodravlje had the features of an immigration region only until the end of the nineteenth century, when intense growth in the number of inhabitants was conditioned by the high number of immigrants in relation to emigrants and high natural growth. In the entire subsequent one-hundred year period, i.e. already after 1910, Prekodravlje became a region marked by depopulation, and since 1971 its population has began dying off. Due to its position on a national border and its earlier relative transit isolation, this area saw little investment, so jobs outside of agriculture were not created here.

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