Croatian is the official first language.Serbian language with itsCyrillic alphabet is the officially recognised second language. InCyrillic, Vrginmost is known asВргинмост and (between 1996 and 2012) Gvozd asГвозд.[citation needed]
The village of Vrginmost has existed since 1688, when it was part of the Military Region. According to thecensus of 1850, Gvozd had 30 houses and 341 inhabitants, and according to the census of 1921, 622 households.[7]
In 1942,Andrija Artuković ordered the killing of the entire population of Vrginmost and its surrounding villages in 1942, according to the charges laid against him in his deportation hearings in the United States.[10]
The town was officially known as Gvozd between 1996[11] and 23 October 2012.[why?] In 2012, its original name of Vrginmost was restored amid political controversy.[clarification needed][12][13][14]
NOTE: Historically, the municipality was known asVrginmost until 1996, when both the municipality and the settlement were renamed toGvozd. The old municipality ofVrginmost was divided into three new municipalities:Topusko,Lasinja andGvozd.
Population of Vrginmost settlement by ethnicity[4][15]
The municipality had big population changes in various censuses, possibly because of war and because of frequent border changes of municipalities in Croatia:
In the 2001 census there were 3,779 people in the municipality, 58% of whom were ethnicSerbs and 40%Croats.[17] 3,575 declared their mother tongue asCroatian, 155 asSerbian, and 49 as other languages.[17]
Directly elected minority councils and representatives are tasked with consulting tasks for the local or regional authorities in which they are advocating for minority rights and interests, integration into public life and participation in the management of local affairs.[18] At the2023 Croatian national minorities councils and representatives electionsSerbs of Croatia fulfilled legal requirements to elect 10 members minority council of the Municipality of Gvozd.[19]
Monument to the Antifascist Uprising and Victims of Fascism - a bronzepartisan sculpture by sculptorZvonko Car erected in 1956. According to the witness' statements,[20] the monument was destroyed and its remains removed from the site in Vrginmost around 26 November 1995. Fragments of the monument's decorative mosaic featuringpartisans had been recovered from garbage disposal site.
Abez Forest - site of the historical meeting, held on 19 July 1941, at which the leadership of the Croatian branch of theCommunist Party of Yugoslavia decided that the people of theKordun andBanija region raise against thenazi-fascist occupation[21]
Đedova kosidba - cultural and historical, tourist manifestation held in Vrginmost, nurturing the folk customs and traditions ofKordun and traditional ways of life. The one-day event, which was first held in 2010, takes place between May and late June and brings together amateur groups nurturing traditional folk dancing and singing from different regions ofCroatia and north-west ofBosnia and Herzegovina.[23][24][25]
ITD Band [hr] - the first members of the Croatian/Yugoslav pop rock band were Vrginmost natives and residents: Branislav Bekić (vocals), Milan Bekić (bass guitar) and Nebojša Tepšić (drums). Rastislav Topoljski (keyboards), who joined the band later on, was another Vrginmost resident, while Jadranko Mileusnić (guitar) was a native ofVojnić.[28][29][30][31]
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