Savska Ves is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in Međimurje County, Croatia

Croatia

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The village is part of the wider area of Čakovec

Cakovec

Čakovec is a city in northern Croatia, located around 90 kilometres north of Zagreb, the Croatian capital. Čakovec is both the county seat and largest city of Međimurje County, the northernmost, smallest and most densely populated Croatian county.-Population:...

, the county seat of Međimurje County. It is located next to the southern limits of the city, around 2 kilometres from its centre. It is also connected with the village of Strahoninec

Strahoninec

Strahoninec is a municipality in Međimurje County, Croatia.Strahoninec is the only village in the municipality. Also part of the municipality is the hamlet of Poleve, located just over a kilometre south of the village. In the 2001 census, the municipality had a population of 2,728...

, which is a separate municipality. There are two streets in Savska Ves, one of them formed by the road that connects Čakovec with Totovec

Totovec

Totovec is a village in Međimurje County, Croatia. It had a population of 529 in the 2001 census.The village is located around 7 kilometres south of the centre of Čakovec, the county seat and largest city of Međimurje County, and is administratively part of the city's wider area...

. The population of the village in the 2001 census was 1,238.

History

It is not certain when the village was established. However, it was most likely the village listed as Zawszkawecz on the list of settlements in the Čakovec area in 1478.

In the 1857 census, the population of Savska Ves was 219. By the beginning of the 20th century, it grew to over 400. The village was already predominantly populated by Croats

Croats

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 at the time. In the 1910 census, it had a population of 446. It was part of the Čakovec district of Zala County in the Kingdom of Hungary

Kingdom of Hungary

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In 1920, when the Treaty of Trianon

Treaty of Trianon

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 was signed, the village became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

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. In the 1921 census, it had a population of 493, which grew to 598 in the next census 10 years later. Between 1941 and 1945, it belonged to Hungary

Hungary during World War II

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 again, as the entire Međimurje region was annexed by the Hungarians at the time.

After World War II

World War II

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, the village became part of Croatia

Socialist Republic of Croatia

Socialist Republic of Croatia was a sovereign constituent country of the second Yugoslavia. It came to existence during World War II, becoming a socialist state after the war, and was also renamed four times in its existence . It was the second largest republic in Yugoslavia by territory and...

 within the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...

. It had a population of 709 in the 1948 census. The population grew to over 1,000 by the 1980s. Following the independence of Croatia in 1991, a portion of the village was annexed to Strahoninec. Curiously, the population of Savska Ves in the 1991 and 2001 censuses was exactly the same – 1,238.