Novo Selo Rok is a village

Village

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 in Međimurje County, Croatia

Croatia

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The village is administratively 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, and is located around 4 kilometres from the centre of the city. Its population in the 2001 census was 1,476.

History

The history of the village began in 1681, during an epidemic of plague, which devastated the entire Međimurje region. The faithful people fled to the protection of Saint Roch, building a chapel on the then deserted hill and naming it in his honour in 1686. The chapel was expanded during the 1750s.

In the 1857 census, the village had a population of 168. At the time, it was known as Jánosfalu in Hungarian

Hungarian language

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, while its Croatian

Croatian language

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 name was Janko Selo. By the 1910s, it was predominantly populated by Croats

Croats

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 and had a population of 498 in the 1910 census.

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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. Its official name in the censuses between 1921 and 1948 was Novo Selo. In 1941, it became part of Hungary

Hungary during World War II

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 again, as the entire Međimurje region was annexed by the Hungarians until 1945. After World War II

World War II

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, it became part of Croatia

Socialist Republic of Croatia

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 within the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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The name Novo Selo-Rok was first mentioned as the official name of the village in the 1953 census, while the hyphen

Hyphen

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 was first removed from the name in the 1981 census. By the 1960s, the population of the village grew to over 1,000.

Transportation

There is a small train station in the western part of the village, on the railroad that connects Čakovec with Mursko Središće

Mursko Središce

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 and Lendava

Lendava

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. The main road going through the village connects Čakovec with Podturen

Podturen

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