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Village in Primorje-Gorski Kotar, Croatia

Žejane
Village
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Coordinates: 45°26′26″N 14°11′40″E / 45.44056°N 14.19444°E / 45.44056; 14.19444
Country Croatia
County Primorje-Gorski Kotar
Municipality Matulji
Area[1]
• Total 22.6 km2 (8.7 sq mi)
Elevation 618 m (2,028 ft)
Population (2021)[2]
• Total 105
• Density 4.6/km2 (12/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code 51212

Žejane (Istro Romanian: Jeiăn; Italian: Seiane) is a village in the eastern part of the mountainous Ćićarija area in Istria, in western Croatia. Administratively it belongs to the municipality of Matulji in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. In 2011, the population of Žejane was 130.[3]

The village is 18 km north-west of Matulji, near the municipality road leading from Vele Mune and Male Mune to Opatija and Rijeka, in a karst valley between two mountain ridges.

The village is known for the Ćići: Istro-Romanians who settled here in the late 15th, or early 16th century from 1510 until 1525, when the villages Vele Mune, Male Mune, and Žejane were settled by Krsto Frankopan.[4][5]

Population number according to the census[6]
1857 1869 1880 1890 1900 1910 1921 1931 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
505 546 531 565 601 596 547 540 511 493 383 379 250 189 141 130
  1. ^ Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata Q119585703.
  2. ^ "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
  3. ^ Census 2011.
  4. ^ Ribarić 2002, pp. 79, 78.
  5. ^ Ribarić 2002, p. 61.
  6. ^ Bureau of Statistics n.d.

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