Veliko Rujno is a mountain plateau on Velebit, though to be the single biggest karst field on the mountain range, [1] situated around 900 m above sea level.
Veliko Rujno is a mountain plateau on Velebit, though to be the single biggest karst field on the mountain range, [1] situated around 900 m above sea level.
The plateau hosts a prehistoric continental trail that connected the Croatian Littoral with Lika, [2] [3] as well as two speleological sites: the Samograd cave and the cave at Bojinac. [4]
The plateau also hosts several gords (gradina), discovered by their dry stone foundations and the details of what seem to have been wooden constructions similar to those of prehistoric houses on the Croatian coast. Hearths and pottery sherds were discovered in the houses themselves, dating back to the late bronze age. It is believed that the site used to function as a marketplace in the bronze and the Iron Age. [5]
It was the site of the first documented appearance of Sericoda quadripunctata in Croatia, in 2009. [6]
In 1930, a pre-Romanesque church [7] was built on Veliko Rujno by don Ante Adžija in place of an older, dry stone church. [8]
The Paklenica karst river canyon is a national park in Croatia. It is near Starigrad, northern Dalmatia, on the southern slopes of Velebit mountain, not far from Zadar. It contains two canyons, Mala (Small) and Velika (Big) Paklenica.
The Šubić family, also known initially as Bribirščić, was one of the Twelve noble tribes of Croatia and a great noble house which constituted Croatian statehood in the Middle Ages. They held the county of Bribir (Varvaria) in inland Dalmatia. They with their prominent branch Zrinski (1347–1703) were arguably the leading noble family of Croatia for almost 500 years.
The Sava is a river in Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia and along its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and finally through Serbia, feeding into the Danube in its capital, Belgrade. The Sava forms the main northern limit of the Balkan Peninsula, and the southern edge of the Pannonian Plain.
Krmpote is a group of villages in Croatia located around Novi Vinodolski in Croatian Littoral, and to the area belong villages Bile, Drinak, Jakovo Polje, Javorje, Klenovica–Žrnovnica, Krmpotske Vodice, Luka Krmpotska, Podmelnik, Povile, Ruševo Krmpotsko, Sibinj Krmpotski, Smokvica Krmpotska, and Zabukovac. It is related to local population of Bunjevci and etymologically deriving from their tribe named Krmpoćani who arrived from temporary village area of Krmpota (Carampotti) near Zemunik, in North Dalmatia (Bukovica) in the beginning of the 17th century. From it derives the related surname Krmpotić, as well same-titled noble family Kermpotich who lived in Buhovo in West Herzegovina from where emigrated to North Dalmatia in the mid-15th century because of Ottoman invasion. In Herzegovina the surname became extinct, and there's uncertainty as to which families directly descend from them, besides Zdunić, Sabljić, Cvitanovć/Cvitković among many others. Croatian linguist Petar Šimunović considered it a Vlach oeconym, and linguist Valentin Putanec etymologically derived it from Latin root camp(us) "those who live in the field" with rotation kamp > crmp with ethnic suffix -ota, as in Vlahota (Vlach), Krmpota (Krmpoćanin), Likota (Ličanin).
Pavao Ritter Vitezović was a Habsburg-Croatian polymath, variously described as a historian, linguist, publisher, poet, political theorist, diplomat, printmaker, draughtsman, cartographer, writer and printer.
The Croats trace their origins to a southwards migration of some of the Early Slavs in the 6th- and 7th-centuries CE, a tradition supported by anthropological, genetic, and ethnological studies. However, the archaeological and other historic evidence on the migration of the Slavic settlers, on the character of the native population in the present-day territory of Croatia, and on their mutual relationships suggests diverse historical and cultural influences.
Fuliiru, or Kifuliiru, is a Great Lakes Bantu language spoken by the Fuliiru people (Bafuliiru), also known as the Fuliru, who live north and west of the town of Uvira in Uvira Territory, South Kivu Province in the far eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is closely related to Kinyindu.
Early Slavs settled in the eastern and southern parts of the former Roman province of Pannonia. The term Lower Pannonia was used to designate those areas of the Pannonian plain that lie to the east and south of the river Rába, with the division into Upper and Lower inherited from the Roman terminology.
Vuk Mandušić was the capo direttore of the Morlach army, one of the most prominent harambaša in the Dalmatian hinterland, that fought the Ottoman Empire during the Cretan War (1645–69). He is one of the heroes renowned in both Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian epic poetry. The Montenegro poet-prince-bishop Petar II Petrović Njegoš immortalized him in one of his epic poems, Gorski vjenac, also known in English translation as Mountain Wreath.
Grabovača is a cave park located in Perušić, Croatia.
A srbulјa, srbulje in plural, is a liturgical book written or printed in the Serbian recension of Old Church Slavonic, which was the written language of Serbs from the 12th century to the 1830s. The term was used for the first time by Vuk Karadžić in 1816 to differentiate liturgical books written in the Serbian recension from those written in the Russian recension, which gradually replaced srbulje at the beginning of the 19th century.
Nikola Stepanić Selnički was a Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pécs (1596-1598) and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zagreb (1598-1602). With his 1598 and 1599 activities aimed to impose his feudal authority over Serbs who populated a year earlier vast territories in Slavonia, abandoned for more than 40 years, he initiated the "Vlach question".
Methodius Terleckyj or Metodije Terlecki was the main supervisor of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith for publishing of the Slavic language liturgical books. Terleckyj was Ruthenian, i.e. Ukrainian from Belz Voivodeship and bishop of the Bishopric of Chelm.
Matija Popović was 16th-century Serbian Orthodox priest from Ottoman Bosnia. Popović was printer in the South Slavic Bible Institute.
Tribanj is a village in the municipality of Starigrad, Zadar County, north Dalmatia. The village consists of seven hamlets: Kozjača, Kruščica, Lisarica, Ljubotić, Običaj, Sveta Marija Magdalena, and Šibuljina. In a geopolitical context, Tribanj was the border of Austrian Kingdom of Dalmatia in the 19th century, and is still viewed as a cultural border between Dalmatia and Croatian Littoral. It is situated on the southern slopes of Velebit mountain, also known as Podgorje.
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Delko Bogdanić was a Croatian military officer who served in army of Ustaše and later in Crusaders guerilla army.
MT Petar Hektorović is a roll-on/roll-off passenger and cargo ferry currently in use as part of Croatian shipping company Jadrolinija's fleet. It is the only ferry regularly servicing the Split–Vis route in the Adriatic Sea and its crew has been praised for its skill in difficult waters and its performance in emergency service.
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