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Gvozd is a municipality in central Croatia,Sisak-Moslavina County. Its seat is located in Vrginmost (Vrgin Most), which was named Gvozd between 1996 and 2012, when it was renamed amid political controversy.

Languages and names
Croatian is the official first language. Serbian language with its Cyrillic alphabet is the officially recognised second language. In Cyrillic, Vrginmost is known as Вргинмост and (between 1996 and 2012) Gvozd as Гвозд.

History
In 1097, the last native Croatian King Petar Svačić was killed here during the Battle of Gvozd Mountain, which led to the mountain being renamed Petrova Gora (Petar's Mountain). It was ruled by Ottoman Empire between 1536 and 1691 as part of Bosnia Eyalet. 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.

The town was officially known as Gvozd between 1996 and 23 October 2012.

During the Croatian War of Independence, Vrginmost was a part of the unrecognized breakaway Republic of Serbian Krajina. It was retaken by the Croatian army during Operation Storm.

Settlements
The municipality consists of 19 settlements:


 * Blatuša, population 171
 * Bović, population 91
 * Brnjavac, population 93
 * Crevarska Strana, population 161
 * Čremušnica, population 103
 * Dugo Selo Lasinjsko, population 46
 * Golinja, population 38
 * Gornja Čemernica, population 142
 * Gornja Trstenica, population 88
 * Kirin, population 52
 * Kozarac, population 122
 * Ostrožin, population 32
 * Pješčanica, population 161
 * Podgorje, population 150
 * Slavsko Polje, population 338
 * Stipan, population 50
 * Šljivovac, population 32
 * Trepča, population 5
 * Vrginmost (Gvozd at the time of census), population 1,095

Population of Gvozd municipality by ethnicity
 * NOTE: The municipality is historically known as Vrginmost until 1996 when it was renamed to Gvozd

Population of Vrginmost settlement (known as Gvozd from 1996-2012) by ethnicity
 * NOTE: The settlement is historically known as Vrginmost. Only during the 1996-2012 period, the settlement was known as Gvozd

History
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 ethnic Serbs and 40% Croats. 3,575 declared their mother tongue as Croatian, 155 as Serbian, and 49 as other languages.

Notable natives and residents

 * Ognjeslav Utješenović Ostrožinski (1817–1890) - politician and writer
 * Gabrijel Rodić (1812–1890) - high ranking state official in the Habsburg Monarchy
 * Rade Bulat (1920–2013) - Yugoslav communist, partisan general, electrical engineer and People's Hero of Yugoslavia
 * Branko Mamula (1921 -) - antifascist and partisan fighter, admiral of the JNA, Minister of Defence of Yugoslavia from 1982 to 1988
 * Mile Mrkšić (1947–2015) - JNA colonel, convicted by the ICTY of not preventing war crimes during the 1991-1995 war in Croatia
 * Pavle Jakšić (1913–2005) - physicist, partisan general, Chief of Staff of the 4th Yugoslav Army and People's Hero of Yugoslavia
 * Gojko Nikoliš (1911–1995) - medical doctor, historian, volunteer in International Brigades in Spanish Civil War, partisan general, the first Head of the Partisan Medical Corps, member of SANU and People's Hero of Yugoslavia