Grubišno Polje (Czech: Hrubečné Pole, Hungarian: Grobosinc, German: Poglack) is a town in Bjelovar-Bilogora County, Croatia.
Demographics
In the 1991 census, the settlement had equal numbers of Serbs and Croatians, but during the Croatian War of Independence the Croatian Serbs were ethnically cleansed, and only part of them returned later in the 1990s.
In the 2001 census, the municipality had 7,523 inhabitants, with the following ethnic makeup: 4,692 (62.37%) Croats 1,356 (18.02%) Czechs 872 (11.56%) Serbs 228 (3.03%) Hungarians
Politics
Minority councils and representatives
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 the management of local affairs. At the 2023 Croatian national minorities councils and representatives elections Czechs, Hungarians, Roma and Serbs of Croatia each fulfilled legal requirements to elect their own 15 members minority council of the Town of Grubišno Polje with Serb community electing 14 members into their council.
History
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Grubišno Polje was a district capital in the Bjelovar-Križevci County of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.
Sights
The town has a memorial to its deceased from the Croatian War of Independence.
Settlements
The administrativne area of the Town consists of 24 settlements (as of 2011), namely:
