Semeljci

Semeljci is a municipality in Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia. According to the 2011 census, Semeljci has four,362 population, ninety eight.6% of whom are Croats. Semeljci is placed thirteen kilometres east of Dakovo, and is bordered by means of Kesinci, Farkasevac and Koritna. In the thirteenth century, Semeljci turned into a large village close to present-day Kešinci. In the second half of the 15th century it reverted to the possession of feudal Gorjanskis and became referred to as Somoghka. Little is understood approximately the village at some point of the Ottoman generation, except that it was destroyed all through the Ottoman pressure towards Vienna, and changed into rebuilt in 1698. In 1702, Semeljci had 14 inhabited houses.

By 1758, Semeljci had grown to encompass ninety five listed houses and become certainly one of the largest villages that made up the Diocesan estate. The first church changed into constructed in 1720. The extended wide variety of human beings became the principle cause that the village have become the seat of the parish by means of 1754, and the church was enlarged. By the second half of of the nineteenth century, Germans and Hungarians moved into Semeljci, making it a big and ethnically diverse village. The Germans left the village in 1944, and their homes have been inhabited by Croats from numerous elements of Croatia.