Strmec Podravski
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Strmec Podravski is a village in the municipality of Petrijanec
Petrijanec
Petrijanec is a village and municipality in Croatia in the Varaždin county. According to the 2001 census, there are 4,994 inhabitants, the absolute majority of which are Croats....

, of the Varaždin County
Varaždin County
Varaždin County is a county in northern Croatia. It is named after its county seat, the city of Varaždin.-Geography:In addition to the city of Varaždin, the county includes the towns of Ivanec, Ludbreg, Lepoglava, Novi Marof and Varaždinske Toplice, as well as 22 municipalities...

, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

. The village had 701 inhabitants in the 2001 census.

The village is home to a relatively large number of Croatian Roma people. There has been an effort to help employ a greater number of the Roma population.

Strmec has a memorial cross to the victims of World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

and the post-war period of the communist Yugoslav era.

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