Bilje
—  Municipality  —
Bilje Municipality Općina Bilje
Bilje
Coordinates: 45°36′25″N 18°44′38″E / 45.60694°N 18.74389°E / 45.60694; 18.74389Coordinates: 45°36′25″N 18°44′38″E / 45.60694°N 18.74389°E / 45.60694; 18.74389
Government
• Mayor	Žarko Zelić
Area
• Total	344 km2 (133 sq mi)
Elevation	87 m (285 ft)
Population
• Total	5,480
Time zone	Central European Time (UTC+1)

Map of Bilje municipality

Bilje is a village and municipality on the outskirts of nature park Kopački Rit in the region of Baranja, Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia, situated 8 km northeast of Osijek.

Name[link]

Its name derived from the Slavic word "bilje" ("herb" in English). In in German the village is known as Belje, in Hungarian as Bellye, and in Serbian Cyrillic as Биље.

Geography[link]

The municipality of Bilje include following settlements and population (2001 census):

• Bilje - 3,224
• Kopačevo - 608
• Kozjak - 93
• Lug - 852
• Podunavlje - 2
• Tikveš - 29
• Vardarac - 660
• Zlatna Greda - 12

Demographics[link]

There are 5,480 inhabitants in the municipality (2001 census), including: [1]

• 55.11% Croats
• 35.05% Hungarians
• 4.49% Serbs
• 1.13% Roma
• 1.08% Germans

Features[link]

Chief occupations among the population are farming, livestock breeding and food processing (a mill). The manor with the park represents the major tourist attraction; the park is protected as a horticultural monument.

The neighbouring village of Mece is the centre of one of the oldest industrial-agricultural cooperative farms in Europe Belje.

Kopački Rit, situated at the confluence of the Drava and the Danube, the unique preserved wetland area in this part of Europe is not far from Mece. The area surrounding Kopački Rit offers rich hunting grounds for high game (deer in particular) and equally opulent fishing grounds.

See also[link]

• Osijek-Baranja County
• Baranja

External links[link]

• Official site

References[link]

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Željko Pervan

Željko Pervan (born August 7, 1962), is a Croatian comedian and actor. He is best known as a creator and actor in the comedy show Evening School (Croatian: Večernja Škola)

Life and career[link]

Pervan was born in Zagreb, and started his career in Radio 101 in 1985. Together with Vinko Grubišić, Goran Pirš, Zlatan Zuhrić and Davor Pocrnić, he founded the comedy group Naughty Children (Croatian: Zločesta djeca) which was notorious for its black uncensored humour. In 1995 Pervan, together with Mladen Horvat, Zlatan Zuhrić, Đuro Utješanović and Ahmed Al Rahim, started Večernja škola, a live comedy television show.

Sources[link]

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• Željko Pervan - Vrhunci televizijske karijere zagrebačkog komičara (Croatian)

External links[link]

• Željko Pervan at the Internet Movie Database
• Zločesta Djeca - Serbus Zagreb (1989) (Croatian)
• Večernja Škola - Bajke (1996) (Croatian)

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