Retfala
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| name = Retfala
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| settlement_type = City district of Osijek
| image_skyline = Retfala.JPG
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| image_caption = Strossmayerova Street
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| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|Croatia}}
| subdivision_type1 = City
| subdivision_name1 = Osijek
| established_title = First mention
| established_date = End of 17th century
| established_title2 = City district
| established_date2 = From 1947
| leader_party = HDZ
| leader_title = President of Council
| leader_name = Željko Lijić
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| population_total = 14,123
| population_footnotes = {{Cite web|url=https://www.osijek.hr/mjesna-samouprava/mjesni-odbori-i-gradske-cetvrti/gradska-cetvrt-retfala/|title = Gradska četvrt Retfala}}
| population_as_of = 2001
| population_density_km2 = auto
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| postal_code = 31000 Osijek
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| official_name = Gradska četvrt Retfala
Retfala City District
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Retfala ({{langx|hu|Rétfalu}}) is a city district in the western part of Osijek, Croatia. It has 14,123 inhabitants distributed in 5,200 households. It borders Gornji grad to the east, Tvrđavica to the northeast, Višnjevac to the west and Industrijska četvrt to the south.{{Cite web|url=https://www.osijek.hr/mjesna-samouprava/mjesni-odbori-i-gradske-cetvrti/gradska-cetvrt-retfala/|title=Gradska četvrt Retfala|last=|first=|date=|website=Grad Osijek|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=October 13, 2019}}
Day of the city district is on 14 September, on Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
Its name in Hungarian literally means "village in meadow".{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}
History <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.osijek.hr/index.php/cro/Osijek/Kratki-povijesni-prikaz-gradskih-cetvrti-i-prigradskih-naselja |title=Kratki povijesni prikaz gradskih četvrti i prigradskih naselja|author=Zlata Živaković-Kerže|language=hr|access-date=2012-07-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618165253/http://www.osijek.hr/index.php/cro/Osijek/Kratki-povijesni-prikaz-gradskih-cetvrti-i-prigradskih-naselja |archive-date=2012-06-18 }}</ref>
Retfala is first mentioned in the end 17th century.
From 1750 it was estate of the family of Pejačević.
From 19th century it was independent municipality. Colonist settlements of Adolfovac and Brešće were established on the territory of the municipality during the land reform in interwar Yugoslavia.{{cite journal|first= Zdenka|last= Šimončić-Bobetko|title= Kolonizacija u Hrvatskoj 1919.—1941. godine|lang= hr|trans-title= Colonization in Croatia Between 1919 and 1941|year= 1990|volume= 9|issue= 9|url= https://hrcak.srce.hr/107372|journal= Povijesni prilozi|publisher= Hrvatski institut za povijest|location= Zagreb|issn= 0351-9767|pages= 160–162}}
From 1947 it is a city district of the City of Osijek.
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