Gudovac

Gudovac
Village
Gudovac Location of Gudovac in Croatia
Coordinates: 45°52′49″N 16°46′51″E
Country	Croatia
Region	Croatia proper
County	Bjelovar-Bilogora County
Municipality	Bjelovar
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Gudovac is a village in Croatia. It lies near to Bjelovar and about 80 kilometres (50 mi) east of the Croatian capital, Zagreb.

Gudovac was first settled during the Middle Ages and had an ethnically mixed population through much of its history. In 1931, Gudovac had 1,073 inhabitants living in 330 households. Croats formed two-thirds of the population, while the remaining inhabitants were ethnic Serbs. The Gudovac municipality had a population of 8,000, including 3,000 Serbs.

On 28 April 1941, the village was the site of a massacre of some 190 Bjelovar Serbs by the fascist and ultranationalist Ustaše on 28 April 1941, during World War II. It was the first such massacre of Serby by the Ustaše, which would continue its genocidal campaign until end of the Second World War in 1945.

In 2010, the remains of approximately 30 people believed to date from World War II were discovered in a pit near the settlement.

See also

Gudovac massacre