Bakar | |
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Grad Bakar Town of Bakar | |
Coordinates: 45°19′40″N14°32′10″E / 45.32778°N 14.53611°E | |
Country | Croatia |
County | Primorje-Gorski Kotar County |
Settled | 1st century |
Named | 1288 |
Free city | May 13, 1798 |
Royal Borough | April 23, 1799 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Tomislav Klarić (HDZ) |
• City Council | 15 members [1] |
Area | |
• Town | 125.5 km2 (48.5 sq mi) |
• Urban | 3.0 km2 (1.2 sq mi) |
Population (2021) [3] | |
• Town | 7,573 |
• Density | 60/km2 (160/sq mi) |
• Urban | 1,187 |
• Urban density | 400/km2 (1,000/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Area code | 051 |
Website | bakar |
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".
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]
Population of settlements in Bakar, 2011: | |
Bakar | 1,473 |
Hreljin | 2,206 |
Krasica | 1,353 |
Kukuljanovo | 905 |
Plosna | 44 |
Ponikve | 45 |
Praputnjak | 593 |
Škrljevo | 1,344 |
Zlobin | 316 |
population | 11497 | 10401 | 10022 | 9977 | 9804 | 9603 | 10137 | 8658 | 6953 | 7079 | 7788 | 8008 | 7469 | 7577 | 7773 | 8279 | 7573 |
1857 | 1869 | 1880 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1921 | 1931 | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | 2021 |
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.
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Bakar was a district capital in the Modruš-Rijeka County of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.
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.
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]
In 1972 director Radley Metzger filmed his movie Score in Bakar, Croatia.
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