Bakar, Croatia

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Bakar
Grad Bakar
Town of Bakar
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Bakar
Location of Bakar in Croatia
Coordinates: 45°19′40″N14°32′10″E / 45.32778°N 14.53611°E / 45.32778; 14.53611
Country Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia
County Flag of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.png Primorje-Gorski Kotar County
Settled1st century
Named1288
Free cityMay 13, 1798
Royal Borough April 23, 1799
Government
  MayorTomislav Klarić (HDZ)
  City Council
15 members [1]
Area
[2]
   Town 125.5 km2 (48.5 sq mi)
  Urban
3.0 km2 (1.2 sq mi)
Population
 (2021) [3]
   Town 7,573
  Density60/km2 (160/sq mi)
   Urban
1,187
  Urban density400/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code 051
Website bakar.hr

Bakar (Italian : Buccari; Hungarian : Szádrév) is a town in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in western Croatia. The population of the town was 8,279 according to the 2011 Croatian census, including 1,473 in the titular settlement. [4] Ninety percent of the population declared themselves Croats by ethnicity. The largest ethnic minority are the Serbs with 2.91% of the population. The old part of Bakar is situated on a hill overlooking the Bay of Bakar. Bakar is the Croatian word for "copper".

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Bakar is a port for bulk cargo and used to be known for its industrial complex that included a coke factory, which produced a considerable amount of pollution. Bakar's coke factory was closed in 1995 and the area's pollution has subsided significantly. The historical core of Bakar was registered as a cultural monument in 1968. [5]

Municipality

Population of settlements in Bakar, 2011:
Bakar1,473
Hreljin 2,206
Krasica 1,353
Kukuljanovo 905
Plosna 44
Ponikve 45
Praputnjak 593
Škrljevo 1,344
Zlobin 316

Demographics

Grad Bakar: Population trends 1857–2021
population
11497
10401
10022
9977
9804
9603
10137
8658
6953
7079
7788
8008
7469
7577
7773
8279
7573
18571869188018901900191019211931194819531961197119811991200120112021

Coat of arms

Bakar was granted its coat of arms and town privileges in 1799 by Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor. The coat of arms was in the artistic style typical for the period, with a cartouche with large landscapes and ornamentation around the shield within a circular inscription.

The shield of the coat of arms features a red-and-white checkered top or "chief", with three local gray stone castles on green hills in the middle, and a black anchor on orange at the bottom.

Recognizable buildings

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Bakar Fort

History

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Roads above the town
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Port of Urinj INA Refinery in Bakar

In the late 19th and early 20th century, Bakar was a district capital in the Modruš-Rijeka County of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

World War I

In February 1918, during World War I, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Costanzo Ciano took part in a daring, if militarily irrelevant, naval raid on the harbour of Bakar (known in Italy as La beffa di Buccari, lit. "The Bakar Mockery"), helping to raise the spirits of the Italian public.

After WWI, from the end of 1920, Bakar was one of the major points of entry of thousands of Russian refugees, arriving in the Kingdom of SHS following the end of the Russian Civil War in the European part of the former Russian Empire, mostly from Crimea, after the final defeat of White armies under general Wrangel there in November 1920.

World War II

During WW II, in Bakar was an Italian concentration camp, where civil population from Province of Ljubljana, [6] as well as Croats and Serbs was interned. It the peak, there was 893 internees. [7]

Trivia

In 1972 director Radley Metzger filmed his movie Score in Bakar, Croatia.

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References

  1. "Objava konačnih rezultata" (in Croatian). Retrieved 30 May 2017.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata   Q119585703.
  3. "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2021 Census". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
  4. "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: Bakar". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
  5. Černeka, Fabijan. "Naša mjesta". www.tz-bakar.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2023-04-30.
  6. Ivanka Zamida: a survivor's testimonial, from 2013 exhibition "The Last Witnesses", National Museum for Contemporary History, Ljubljana
  7. Bakar concentration camp, Online Research project