Country Croatia Time zone CET (UTC+1) | Municipality Donji Kukuruzari | |
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Mečenčani (Serbian Cyrillic: Меченчани) is a village in the Donji Kukuruzari municipality, Central Croatia.
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Geography
The village is located in the region of Banovina (known as Banija).
History
In 1905, the municipality of Mečenčani existed in the Zagreb County of Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, having 5025 people, of whom Serbs of the Orthodox faith numbered 4574 (91.1%).
It was previously part of the Kostajnica municipality. Before the outbreak of the Croatian War, the SAO Krajina (1990-1991) was self-proclaimed in the region by ethnic Serbs who denied Croatian president Franjo Tudjman's goal of an independent Croatia outside Yugoslavia. SAO Krajina was merged with other so-called "Serbian Autonomous Oblasts" to form the Republic of Serbian Krajina (1991-1996) which included most of Serbian-inhabited Croatia. The region was subsequently taken over by the Croatian government after the successful Operation Storm.