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Potaknuta fotografijom Pjevačkoga zbora »Gruda« iz Rovišća na kojoj je vidjela svoju baku, autorica istražuje osnutak i djelovanje seljačkih zborova u bjelovarskom kraju u drugoj polovici dvadesetih godina prošloga stoljeća. »Gruda« je primjer tipičnoga hrvatskoga seljačkoga zbora koji nalikuje gradskomu; sa zborovođom uz note pjevale su se autorske zborske skladbe hrvatskih, ali i stranih autora. »Gruda« je ujedno jedini pjevački zbor iz okolice Bjelovara koji je djelovao pod okriljem Seljačke sloge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides the overview of events on 29th September 1991 when the Croatian forces captured the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) garrison in city of Bjelovar in Western Slavonia. The garrison was manned by the members of the 265th Mechanized Brigade and few miscellaneous units. In the large-scale operation launched by Croatian forces, most of the JNA units belonging to the 32nd Corps with HQ in Varaždin, were captured between 15 and 22 September. The garrison in Bjelovar remained as the last one, surrounded by the Croatian forces in the same period. In the morning of 29th September the JNA units at several locations in Bjelovar were attacked. Three minor objects were easily captured. On the contrary at large ammunition storage at “Bedenik”, JNA units resisted until it was prevailed by the Croatian forces. When they entered the storage, Captain Tepić activated explosive producing huge explosion and damage to the wider area, killing himself and several of the Croatian troops. After the whole day of fighting around the barracks in Bjelovar, and after the continuing of the resistance was impossible, the commander of brigade Colonel Kovačević decided to surrender its troops to the Croatian forces. They already managed to enter into the parts of the compound. After the surrender, Croatian forces executed Kovačević and two of his aides, and six reserve members of the unit few days later. Around 60 officers, NCOs and over 330 conscripts were captured and held in captivity until mid-November. Captured quantities of tanks, armoured fighting vehicles, artillery pieces and other smaller armament and equipment was immediately used to improve the inventory of the Croatian forces at the other frontlines against the JNA forces.

Based on original archival material, newspaper texts and relevant literature, the authors investigate the life path of Dr. Emilija Holik, a doctor from Bjelovar who in the second half of the 1930s became a communist (during her studies in Zagreb) and as such worked for the Partisans movement during the Second World War. Dr. Holik studied at the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb and got her first job in Bjelovar at the Banovina Hospital of that time. In Bjelovar, she was involved in communist activities before the war, especially through the "Society for Education of Women" of which she was the president. With the collapse of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the April War of 1941 and the founding of the NDH (Independent State of Croatia), Dr. Holik, as a communist, interfered with the new Ustasha authorities and soon ended up in the Danica concentration camp near Koprivnica. After she was released from it, in September 1941, at the intervention of her father and other prominent people from Bjelovar, Dr. Holik returned to her workplace. Despite having lived through difficult days in the camp, she returns to her communist ideas and continues to support the Partisan movement by founding the Committee for Red Aid, together with other staff of the Bjelovar hospital, especially Dr. Svetozar Begić, who collects money and material resources for the Partisans. In addition, Dr. Holik and his colleagues in the Bjelovar hospital provide treatment for wounded Partisans under false names, and also help in hiding in the hospital premises together with other doctors who were persecuted by the Ustasha regime - Jews, Serbs, anti-fascist Croats and others. Her activities were discovered in September 1942, and she was arrested and shot in Vojnović, Bjelovar, on October 13 of the same year. Her name was well known in Bjelovar because the main medical centre there was named after her from the 1960s to 1994. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

U članku se na osnovu neobjavljene arhivske građe iz Vojnog arhiva u Beogradu, objavljenih izvora koji se čuvaju u hrvatskim arhivima, relevantne memoarske i istoriografske literature, prikazuje atmosfera u društvu Kraljevine Jugoslavije, s naglaskom na Bjelovar. Posebna pažnja je posvećena analizi izvođenja mobilizacije jedinica Slavonske divizije i rekonstrukciji toka pobune njenih pešadijskih pukova u vreme Aprilskog rata 1941. godine.

Numerous accidental finds in the vicinity of the town of Bjelovar, and also in the area of the town itself, indicated the existence of Roman archaeological sites. The confirmation for this arrived in the form of rescue archaeological research during the construction of the eastern bypass road around the city of Bjelovar in 2017, when the site was discovered at the position called Lug. It was ascertained that this is a larger roman rural settlement, which according to the findings, dates between the 1st and 4th century AD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the basis of unexplored archive data the paper gave information on the ill and deceased inmates of the Prison Camp in Velika Pisanica, a place in the vicinity of Bjelovar. The research found 84 ill or wounded inmates both male and female and children who were sent for treatment to the District hospital of Bjelovar and were there during summer of 1945. Treatments had different outcomes, e. g. full cure, improved condition, uncured condition or death. On the basis of living conditions in the camps morbidity is connected to diseases such as infectious diseases (typhoid, dysentery, tuberculosis, diphtheria), venereal diseases (endometriosis, syphilis), inflammatory diseases (abscesses, phlegmon), abortions with death because of sepsis and premature births, typical for camp conditions. According to the data we got four camp inmates died in the mentioned period. Three of them were women who died of infections and sepsis and one man who died of heart disease and inanition. Since the accurate number of camp inmates, ill, gone and deceased in the Prison camp of Velika Pisanica during and after the Second World War has not been researched and defined yet this paper is a contribution for further research in defining the living conditions, morbidity and death of the imprisoned in the Prison Camp in Velika Pisanica.

The history of printing and book publication in Bjelovar-Bilogorje District has not been sufficiently studied and evaluated. The few published papers on this topic represent only a scant review of the matter and provide no explanation as to the role of the periodicals, in particular journals and newspapers, in the overall development of the town of Bjelovar and the District. It strikes one as particularly odd how little writing has been devoted to the first Bjelovar weekly newspaper, Tjednik bjelovarsko-križevački. Our paper is an overview of the facts on the beginning of its publication, the makeup of the editorial board and the editors in chief, the contents, genres, columns, circulation, distribution, popularisation and layout. The range of topics covered, the overall atmosphere and the wide scope of the social life covered by the newspaper shed light on its influence on the development of literacy and the culture of reading, and on its role in the cultural, educational and political life of the town and the region in the late 19th and early 20th century. A special reason for writing this text resides in the fact that in the absence of other source material Tjednik bjelovarsko-križevački is an important tool in the study of the local history. The chief study sources were the complete annual editions of Tjednik stored in the National University Library. Bibliographic sources and material were consulted regarding the development of printing and the publication of periodicals. The theoretical starting points were found in the works of Josip Horvat, Božidar Novak, Srećko Lipovčan, Ivanka Kuić, Ivo Perić, Vjekoslav Maštrović and others. The paper utilises the historic and comparative methods, and the methods of compilation, description, analysis and synthesis. The first regionally distributed weeklies were commonly published by local printers with businesses set up in the district centres. An enormous breakthrough in the development of publishing and printing in Bjelovar was made by Adolf Kolesar whose printing outfit opened in 1885. Soon after the outfit opened for business, he started publishing the first newspaper bearing the title Tjednik bjelovarsko-križevački: newspaper for education, economy, social and public life. The first issue came out 1 November 1890, marking the beginning of the development of periodicals in Bjelovar and the District. Adolf Kolesar furnished the technical base for the onset of newspaper publishing in Bjelovar, but the major creators of the content of Tjednik were the long-standing members of the editorial board and reputed columnists, Professor Gustav Fleischer, and solicitor and politician Milan Rojc. Literature, so far published on this matter, stresses that Tjednik ranked among the best regional papers of its time. The paper started out by publishing only the news, curios, items of educational and didactic content, reviews, short stories, sports news and advertisements. Its ambition was to cover matters of interest and reach the readers of the entire Bjelovar-Križevci District, but it had no particular political ambitions. In 1907 the owner and the editorial board changed and the paper became a political bulletin for the Croatian-Serbian coalition, with greater emphasis on the state, political, communal, social and economic matters, important in the life of the District. The last issue came out 30 August 1919, after which date the name was changed to Demokratski glas and the publication became the bulletin for the Yugoslav Democratic Party. In 1924 the paper resumed the old name, Tjednik, but survived only a short time. The research for this paper was greatly impeded by a scantiness of sources, as there are only very few copies of Tjednik preserved in the State Archives and the Bjelovar Town Museum, whereas the Petar Preradović Library in Bjelovar does not own a single copy. Furthermore, there was the matter of reliability of the information found in literature, as it is sometimes incomplete or only partially accurate. The article aims to shed some light on the social and political role of Tjednik and on its information and communication aspects. The study of the contents of Tjednik provided in this article hopes to facilitate further research in the history of the town and the District. Keywords:Tjednik bjelovarsko-križevački; Bjelovar; Bjelovar-Bilogora District; periodicals

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The expressed regional identity of the local community will also mean greater attachment, and that the value of cultural and natural resources as well as intangible assets, through proper management and investment, have the capability of becoming a major tourist attraction. Heritage reflects the stability, continuity of settlement, the tradition of the cultural landscape and the lifestyle, and is therefore an important part of the traditional identity. Cultural heritage is a resource recognized by tourists, which actually creates a link between identity and the perceptions of residents and tourists. With proper presentation and promotion, spatial identity is one of the most important intangible tourism resources having a very high potential in building unique tourism products. The focus of this paper is the identification of an individual with the spatial identity of a region and investigation of the effects on the sustainable development of tourism, based on a case study of Bjelovar and Čakovec. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The work is related to the existence of three Bjelovar Bordellos of early 20th century with epidemic/endemic existence of venereal disease, despite the then public health and police regulations. Conditions during the opening of the new bordello in Bjelovar in 1913 with architectonic pictures and reasons to close all three Bordellos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The new main military hospital building in Bjelovar, built in 1900-1901, was designed to provide full medical services to its patients, as it had patient rooms for soldiers and officers, doctor's office, a pharmacy, a laboratory, a kitchen with a dining room, toilet facilities, and storage for food and firewood in the basement. The building's right wing accommodated regimental doctors on the ground floor. The first floor had patient rooms with sanitary facilities and rooms for paramedics. In the hospital park there was a separate building for infectious diseases, auxiliary buildings, a disinfection facility, and a mortuary. For 35 years before World War 2, it had functioned as a military hospital with brief intervals when it provided services to the general public and outpatients. During the War it resumed its primary function and continued providing health care for the military until it was demolished in the late 1970s. This article is a contribution to the existing literature about military health care in Croatia, as there have been no earlier records about the Bjelovar hospital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author investigates in chronological order the National Movement of 1903/1904 in the territory of the Bjelovar-Križevci County and the city of Bjelovar, which was marked by unrests, political demonstrations, street conflicts, riots and protest assemblies throughout Croatia. The city of Bjelovar and the territory of the Bjelovar-Križevci County were hit by a wave of discontent caused by the failure to implement the regulations of the Croatian-Hungarian Settlement. The discontent in the county was predominantly of social nature and was mostly encouraged by future peasant leader Stjepan Radić' associates who agitated against Unionist party members (pejoratively called mađaroni) and magyarization in the northern part of the Bjelovar-Križevci County and around the city of Bjelovar (representing the contours of the future Croatian People's Peasant Party). Because of that the territory of the County was plagued by unrests in the revolutionary 1903/1904 period, which was bloody and had many human casualties (the Kunovec rebellion). The unity of Croats and Serbs was especially present in the territory of the County in that period. A small opposition group under the leadership of attorney Milan Rojc and pharmacist Ivan Werklein did not actively partake in the Movement, but they organized a big public assembly in Bjelovar on the 29 December 1903 where a number of speakers (including Stjepan Radić) voiced the reasons behind the dissatisfaction of the common people in Croatia. The assembly encouraged the peasant masses around Bjelovar and they started to express more freely their demands towards local administrative bodies under the governance of the Union party members (especially towards the Đurđevac and Križevci property municipalities). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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