Kraljevica

Kraljevica
Town
Grad Kraljevica Town of Kraljevica
View of Kraljevica
Location of Kraljevica in Croatia
Kraljevica
Coordinates: 45°12′52″N14°35′51″E / 45.21444°N 14.59750°E / 45.21444; 14.59750
Country	Croatia
County	Primorje-Gorski Kotar
Government
• Mayor	Dalibor Čandrlić (HDZ)
• City Council	13 members [1]   HDZ-HSLS (8) _   HNS-SDP-HSU-PGS-HSS-IDS (5)
Area [2]
•  Town	17.6 km2 (6.8 sq mi)
• Urban	5.6 km2 (2.2 sq mi)
Population  (2021) [3]
•  Town	4,066
• Density	230/km2 (600/sq mi)
•  Urban	2,415
• Urban density	430/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	kraljevica.hr

Kraljevica (known as Porto Re in Italian and literally translated as "King's cove" in English) is a town in the Kvarner region of Croatia, located between Rijeka and Crikvenica, approximately thirty kilometers from Opatija and near the entrance to the bridge to the island of Krk. It is part of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.

The town is known for its shipyard which has built a number of ships for the Croatian navy.

History

Kraljevica is a town that was written about as early as the 13th century. Today, in addition to having the oldest shipyard on the Adriatic, ^[4] Kraljevica's skyline is dominated by two medieval castles and a church of the Croatian nobles Zrinski and Frankopan. Kraljevica's shipyard employed Josip Broz Tito, the former leader of Yugoslavia, during the first half of the 20th century in his early years of organizing for the Communist Party. After he became marshal of Yugoslavia following World War II, the shipyard took his name, until democratic changes in the 1990s. Kraljevica was the site of an Italian-run concentration camp during WW II.

In March 1873, the Primorska štediona ^[5] savings bank opened in Kraljevica. It competed with the savings bank in Bakar (established 1876), but had to file bankruptcy in 1878. ^{[6] : 6}

Today Kraljevica is also a popular tourist destination on the Adriatic coast. The Krk Bridge is located nearby, in the southeast part of the city.

Climate

Between 1981 and 1986, the highest temperature recorded at the local weather station was 34.8 °C (94.6 °F), on 29 July 1983. ^[7] The coldest temperature was −10.1 °C (13.8 °F), on 7 January 1985. ^[8]

Demographics

In the 2011 census, the total population of the township was 4,618, with the following settlements: ^[9]

• Bakarac, population 313
• Kraljevica, population 2,857
• Križišće, population 85
• Mali Dol, population 180
• Šmrika, population 988
• Veli Dol, population 195

In 1890, the obćina of Kraljevica (court at Kraljevica), with an area of 11.35 square kilometres (4.38 sq mi), belonged to the kotar of Sušak (Bakar court and electoral district) in the županija of Modruš-Rieka (Ogulin court and financial board). There were 403 houses, with a population of 1689. Its sole village for taxation purposes made up its own porezna obćina, under the Bakar office. The only statistical market in Sušak kotar was in Kraljevica. ^{[10] : iv, v}

Town of Kraljevica: Population trends 1857–2021

v

population	3120	3184	2839	3012	3240	3318	3987	3303	2917	3521	3435	3840	4254	4513	4579	4618	4066
	1857	1869	1880	1890	1900	1910	1921	1931	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011	2021

Sources: Croatian Bureau of Statistics publications

Infrastructure

In 1913, there were two gendarmeries in Sušak kotar: Sušak and Kraljevica. ^[11]

References

1. "Konačni rezultati izbora" (PDF) (in Croatian). Retrieved 30 May 2017.
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" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
4. "Brodogradilište Kraljevica ide u stečaj". hrt.hr (in Croatian). Croatian Radiotelevision. HINA. 22 March 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
5. Zoričić, Milovan (1879) [written November 1878]. "Tvrdka, sjedište, početak poslovanja i dionička glavnica bankov. zavoda i štediona". Statistika vjeresijskih zavoda za godine 1847-1877 za godine 1847-1877. Zagreb: Kraljevski zemaljski statistički ured, 🖶 Dragutin Albrecht. pp. 2–3.
6. Zoričić, Milovan (1879) [written November 1878]. "Bankovni zavodi i štedione". Statistika vjeresijskih zavoda za godine 1847-1877 za godine 1847-1877. Zagreb: Kraljevski zemaljski statistički ured, 🖶 Dragutin Albrecht. pp. 1–68.
7. DHMZ (2022-07-19). "Najviše izmjerene temperature zraka u Hrvatskoj za razdoblje od kada postoje mjerenja". Državni hidrometeorološki zavod.
8. DHMZ (2022-01-21). "Najniže izmjerene temperature zraka u Hrvatskoj za razdoblje od kada postoje mjerenja". Državni hidrometeorološki zavod.
9. "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: Kraljevica". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
10. Kraljevski zemaljski statistički ured (1895). "Glavni pregled područja županija, upravnih kotara i obćina, sudbenih stolova, sudbenih kotara, financijalnih ravnateljstva, poreznih ureda i izbornih kotara". Političko i sudbeno razdieljenje kralj. Hrvatske i Slavonije i Repertorij prebivališta po stanju od 31. svibnja 1895. Zagreb: Kraljevska hrvatsko-slavonsko-dalmatinska zemaljska vlada. pp. I–XXVII.
11. Kraljevski zemaljski statistički ured (May 1913). "Razmještaj Kr. oružništva u Kraljevinama Hrvatskoj i Slavoniji". Političko i sudbeno razdjeljenje i Repertorij prebivališta Kraljevina Hrvatske i Slavonije po stanju od 1. siječnja 1913. Zagreb: Kraljevska hrvatsko-slavonsko-dalmatinska zemaljska vlada, 🖶 Kraljevska zemaljska tiskara. pp. XXXIV–XXXV.

Further reading

• Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža (2013–2024). "Kraljevica". Hrvatska enciklopedija (online ed.). Archived from the original on 2023-12-26.

History

• Laszowski, Emilij (1923). "Hreljin". Gorski kotar i Vinodol: Dio državine knezova Frankopana i Zrinskih (Mjestopisne i povjesne crtice) (PDF). Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 🖶 Tiskara "Narodnih novina" (published 1924-01-12). pp. 164–178. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-08-12. Online publication 2016-01-09.

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