Jasenovac municipality

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Jasenovac (Croatia)
Jasenovac
Jasenovac
Jasenovac (Croatia)

Jasenovac is a municipality in Central Croatia, in the southern part of the Sisak-Moslavina county at the confluence of the river Una into Sava. The municipality's population was 2,391 in 2001, 91% (2179) which are Croats and 5.90% (141) which are Serbs.

The name means "ash tree" or "ash forest" in Croatian, the area being ringed by such a forest.

Jasenovac attained tragic notoriety during the Holocaust through the Jasenovac concentration camp giving its name to the Ustaša complex of WWII concentration camps.



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