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The following is a list of notable people from Karlovac and the geographical area of present-day Karlovac County.
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Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia is a country in Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west. Its capital and largest city, Zagreb, forms one of the country's primary subdivisions, with twenty counties. Other major urban centers include Split, Rijeka and Osijek. The country spans 56,594 square kilometres, and has a population of nearly 3.9 million.
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NK Karlovac 1919 is a Croatian football club based in the town of Karlovac. Karlovac plays their home matches at Stadion Branko Čavlović-Čavlek.
Viktor Novak was a Yugoslav Croat historian, professor at the University of Belgrade and full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU), and a corresponding member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (JAZU).
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Mladen Naletilić was a Bosnian Croat paramilitary commander of the "Convicts' Battalion" (Croatian language “Kažnjenička Bojna” of the Croatian Defence Council convicted for war crimes by the ICTY.
Milorad Ekmečić was a Yugoslav and Serbian historian. During World War II he became a member of the Yugoslav Partisans after the fascist Ustaše perpetrated the Prebilovci massacre, in which 78 members of his family were killed, including his father. He studied at the University of Zagreb and went on to be a professor at the University of Sarajevo, and later at the University of Belgrade. He was a member of several Yugoslav academies of sciences and arts, the author of more than a dozen historical books, and received several significant national awards. Ekmečić authored several important works in socialist Yugoslavia, including his contribution to the acclaimed History of Yugoslavia published in English in 1974, and Stvaranje Jugoslavije 1790–1918 [Creation of Yugoslavia 1790–1918] in 1989. According to his obituary in Vreme news magazine, Ekmečić was considered "a prominent representative of Serbian critical historiography".
Martin Previšić is a Croatian historian. Previšić is an assistant professor at the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Sjeničak Lasinjski is a village in central Croatia, in the municipality of Lasinja, Karlovac County.
Gojko Nikoliš was a physician, historian and a participant in the Spanish Civil War and World War II in Yugoslavia.
