Petrijevci


Petrijevci is a municipality in Slavonia, in the Osijek-Baranja County of northeastern Croatia. There are 2439 inhabitants, of which 97.39% are Croats.

Name

The name of the village in Croatian is in the plural, and therefore it is grammatically correct to refer to it as "Petrijevci are" instead of "Petrijevci is". A hypothetical singular version of the name would be Petrijevac.

History

In the late 19th and early 20th century, Petrijevci was part of the Virovitica County of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.