Glina is a town in central Croatia , located southwest of Petrinja and Sisak in the Sisak-Moslavina County . It lies on the eponymous river Glina .
21-447: Martinovići may refer to: Martinovići, Sisak-Moslavina County , a settlement in Glina, Croatia Martinovići, Gusinje , Montenegro [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
42-730: A city on 1 June 1284. Later in September 1737, during the threat of the Turks , the Croatian Sabor met in Glina. It was also a post of Ban Jelačić when he became the commander the Military Frontier during the Turkish threat. During the mid-18th century, Count Ivan Drašković created Freemason lodges in several Croatian cities and towns, including Glina, where officers and other members shared ideas of
63-589: A decoration called the Order of the Brotherhood and Unity . Several prominent persons from former Yugoslavia were convicted for activities deemed to threaten the brotherhood and unity, such as acts of chauvinist propaganda, separatism and irredentism . Among them were Serbian radical Vojislav Šešelj , former presidents of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Alija Izetbegović ) and Croatia ( Franjo Tuđman and Stjepan Mesić ), and others. One Kosovar Albanian, Adem Demaçi ,
84-539: A guiding principle of Yugoslavia 's post-war inter-ethnic policy. In Slovenia , the slogan "Brotherhood and Peace" ( bratstvo in mir ) was used in the beginning. After the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers in April 1941, the occupying powers and certain collaborator entities sought to incite hatred among the various national, ethnic and religious groups of Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav Communist Party successfully publicized
105-630: A result of the fighting in Glina. Croatian Police and National Guard units had to withdraw while Croats from Glina (including Jukinac) took refuge in Donji and Gornji Viduševac , villages north of Glina that were free at the time. Subsequently, Glina was completely controlled by the Yugoslav People's Army and the Serb rebels. The remaining non-Serb population from Glina and the surrounding area were mostly expelled while many were taken to internment camps. During
126-620: The Jacobins from the French Revolution , until Emperor Francis II banned them in 1798. During the 1790 Siege of Cetingrad , Glina was quickly fortified in preparation for an Ottoman assault if Cetingrad were to fall which it did not. In the late 19th and early 20th century, Glina was a district capital in the Zagreb County of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia . During World War II , Glina
147-474: The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , as embodied in its federal constitutions of 1963 and of 1974 . The policy prescribed that Yugoslavia's nations ( Serbs , Macedonians , Croats , Slovenes , Montenegrins , Bosniaks ) and national minorities ( Albanians , Hungarians , Romanians , Bulgarians , Jews , Italians , Ukrainians and others) are equal groups that coexist peacefully in
168-508: The adoption of national quota systems in all public institutions, including economic organizations, in which national groups were represented by their republic's or province's national composition. Throughout Yugoslavia many factories, schools, public venues, folklore ensembles and sporting teams used to be named "Brotherhood and unity", as well as the Ljubljana – Zagreb – Belgrade – Skopje highway ( Brotherhood and Unity Highway ). The country had
189-439: The brotherhood and unity of Yugoslavia's nations ( narodi ) and national minorities ( nacionalne manjine , later renamed to narodnosti ) in their struggle against their enemies. The decision of the second session of AVNOJ on the federalization of Yugoslavia in 1943 was regarded as the recognition of this Brotherhood and Unity principle. After the war, the slogan designated the official policy of inter-ethnic relations in
210-406: The federation, promoting their similarities and interdependence in order to overcome national conflicts and hatred. Every individual was entitled to the expression of their own culture, while the ethnic groups had an oath to one another to maintain peaceful relations. Citizens were also encouraged and allowed to declare their nationality as Yugoslav, which usually polled at 10%. The policy also led to
231-412: The first major armed clashes between Croatian forces and rebelled Serbs took place in the Glina area. On June 26, a day after the declaration of independence of Croatia, a group of armed Serbs attacked the local police station. The second armed attack followed a month later, on July 26. Serb militias were reported to have used ethnic Croats as human shields in the conflict. Civilians from both sides died as
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273-586: The local Serbian Orthodox Church. The dates as well as the number of victims in this massacre are disputed in sources. According to Italian reports, in total, more than 18,000 Serbs were killed in the district of Glina during the war. The Yugoslav Partisans attacked Glina and Hrastovica in late November 1943. The position was held by the Nazi Germany army with support from the Danish 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland . The Partisans liberated and entered
294-539: The management of local affairs. At the 2023 Croatian national minorities councils and representatives elections Serbs of Croatia fulfilled legal requirements to elect 15 members minority council of the Town of Glina. Brotherhood and unity Brotherhood and unity was a popular slogan of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia that was coined during the Yugoslav People's Liberation War (1941–45), and which evolved into
315-401: The night of 12 May, they were tied up in pairs, loaded into trucks and taken to a large pit where they were killed, primarily with guns. Historian Slavko Goldstein writes that "less than four hundred, but certainly higher than three hundred" were killed in total. Another massacre occurred on 30 July-2 August when 700 Serbs were gathered under the threat of forced conversion and executed in
336-763: The town on January 11, 1944. After the end of war in 1964, the Committee for the Construction of Memorials to the July Victims of Fascist Terror in Banija and Kordun sent a request to the Veterans Associations of the People’s Liberation War of Yugoslavia (SUBNOR) to finally build a memorial as the failure to do so was particularly affecting the brotherhood and unity of the people in this region. A memorial house
357-565: The war, Serbs occupied the territory up to the Kupa river, which was followed by many crimes against the civilians in Novo Selo Glinsko , Stankovci and Bučič area. In 1995, future President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić held a meeting in Glina during which he stated, among others that Glina would never be part of Croatia and advocated for it to be a part of Greater Serbia . A total of 396 Croatian civilians and soldiers were killed in Glina during
378-522: The war. On 6 August 1995, Glina was returned to Croatia by the Croatian Army during Operation Storm . At the same time, most ethnic Serbs fled. In December 2015, the bodies of 56 Serb civilians and soldiers killed during the action were exhumed from a mass grave in the Gornje Selište municipality. The area of Glina suffered extensive damage during the 2020 Petrinja earthquake . The results are for
399-505: The whole municipality of Glina which was larger during previous censuses. In some censuses, people listed themselves as Yugoslavs (not Serbs or Croats). The settlements part of the administrative area of Glina, total population 9,283 (census 2011), include: Directly elected minority councils and representatives are tasked with consulting tasks for the local or regional authorities in which they are advocating for minority rights and interests, integration into public life and participation in
420-511: Was part of the Independent State of Croatia established by the Axis powers as a result of the Invasion of Yugoslavia . There were two major Ustashe massacres of Serbs in Glina in 1941. On the night of 11 May, Ustaše arrested male Serbs over the age of sixteen, regardless of occupation or class. The men were first imprisoned in a small holding area of a former gendarmerie building, then on
441-569: Was thereafter built on the site of the destroyed Orthodox church and in 1985, its executive committee requested assistance in creating a permanent display for the museum which read: "the Ustasha slaughtered around 1,200 Serbs from the surroundings of Glina on August 2, 1941", noting that it marked the beginning of the Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia . In the early summer of 1991,
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