Belišće is a city in Croatia, located in the region of Slavonia, Osijek - Baranja county, at the altitude of 93 m. The population of the city is 7,197 (2001), 11,786 in the municipality, the majority who are Croats. This industrial town upon the Drava river lies near the border with Hungary north from here.Chief occupations are forestry, timber and wood processing, (sawmill, chemical and mechanical wood processing), cardboard packaging, metal industry, chemicals and synthetic material processing.The influential Gutmann family made a significant impact on the Belišće region in the 19th and 20th century. Once vast Slavonian oak forests were mostly replaced with farmland, and a section of the w...