Selce, Croatia

Not to be confused with Selca.

Selce
Village
beach in Selce
Country	Croatia
Area [1]
• Total	2.7 sq mi (7.0 km2)
Population  (2021) [2]
• Total	1,298
• Density	480/sq mi (190/km2)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	www.holidayincroatia.net

Selce is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D8 highway.

History

In the 13th century, as part of the old Croatian municipality of Bribir, Selce came into the possession of the Frankopan family. This event significantly influenced the development of Selce as a trading town. ^[3]

Between 1871 and 1875, Selce obćina, Grižane obćina, Belgrad obćina, Drvenik obćina, Sveta Jelena obćina and Sveti Jakov obćina were all merged as Grižane-Crkvenica obćina. ^{[4] : 128}

The last two days of November 2008, the maximum wave height as recorded at nearby Bakar reached a record. Little rain fell, but the city was flooded anyway thanks to a strong sirocco wind. Firefighters had to pump water from basements and the HEP had to repair broken power lines. Some of the Selce's beaches lost all their sand during the storm. ^[5]

On 16 September 2017, the Dubračina  [ hr ] and Suha Ričina Novljanska streams overflowed, flooding Selce, Crikvenica and Novi Vinodolski. This was after 183 millimetres (7.2 in) of rain fell by 6:00. ^{[6] [7]}

2012 Crikvenica fire

In 2012, the most dangerous fire on record in Vinodol, and of the largest, happened near Selce, encompassing 520 hectares (1,300 acres) of mostly forest. At 8:35 on 23 July, smoke was noticed in Jargovo  [ bs ] uphill from Selce. Att 8:36, the DVD Bribir left to fight it, and at 8:38 the JVP Grada Crikvenice joined them. At 8:50, the commander of the JVP declared the 2nd degree of the Operative Plan (Croatian : drugi stupanj Operativnog plana), mobilising in addition to the aforementioned the DVD "San Marino" Novi Vinodolski. At 9:15, this was increased to the 3rd degree by the Županija commander. By 9:30, there were 87 firefighters and 16 vehicles on the scene. ^[8]

Carried by a powerful bura, the fire reached the residential area Studenčić above the D8, triggering active defence of the Rabkomerc and DPD auto service buildings together with adjacent buildings, but the fire spread across the D8 anyway around 10:00. ^[8]

It took a total of 550 firefighters, 105 vehicles, 47 foresters and so on, to stop put the fire out on the 24th. ^[8]

Demographics

In 1895, the obćina of Selce (court at Selce), with an area of 6.9872 square kilometres (2.6978 sq mi), belonged to the kotar of Novi (Novi court but Selce electoral district) in the Modruš-Rieka županija (Ogulin court and financial board). There were 344 houses, with a population of 1445 (the lowest in Novi kotar). Its 3 villages were encompassed for taxation purposes by a single porezna obćina, under the Bakar office. ^{[9] : iv, v}

References

1. Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata   Q119585703.
2. "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
3. "Povijest | Crikvenica". www.rivieracrikvenica.com. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
4. Kraljevski zemaljski statistički ured (1877). "Pregled postojavših od godine 1871. upravnih obćinah, kojim su iste utjelovljene". Pregled političkoga i sudbenoga razdieljenja kraljevinah Hrvatske i Slavonije i uredjenja upravnih obćinah. Na temelju naredbe kr. hrv.-slav.-dalm. zem. vlade od 5. veljače 1875. broj 221 pr. i provedenoga zatim zaokruženja upravnih obćinah. Zagreb: Kraljevska hrvatsko-slavonsko-dalmatinska zemaljska vlada, 🖶 Tiskara "Narodnih novinah". pp. 121–131.
5. V.R.T. (June 2009). "Olujno nevrijeme poharalo sjeverni Jadran" (PDF). Nazovi 193 (in Croatian). Vol. 2, no. 3. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-09-27.
6. VZPGŽ (2017-09-17). "Kiša potopila Crikvenicu, Selce, Novi Vinodolski, Rab". Archived from the original on 2018-03-02.
7. VZPGŽ (n.d.). "Obilna kiša poplavila Crikvenicu i okolicu". Archived from the original on 2018-03-02.
8. "Najveći požar u povijesti Crikvenice" (PDF). pp. 124–142.{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
9. 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.

Further reading

About the fire

• Marenić, Damir (2012-07-26). "Sveta Nedelja". Vatrene vijesti. Archived from the original on 2025-03-30.

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