Fužine ( it, Fusine) is a village and a municipality located in
Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, 10 km away from the coast and 30 km away from the city of
Rijeka. It is situated at 722 meters above sea level while being surrounded by mountains and three large artificial accumulation lakes (Bajer, Potkoš and Lepenica).
Demographics
The total population of Fužine municipality is 1,592, in the following
settlements:
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Belo Selo, population 50
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Benkovac Fužinski, population 33
* Fužine, population 685
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Lič, population 504
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Slavica
Slavica may refer to:
People
* Slavica Ćukteraš (born 1985), Serbian singer
* Slavica Đukić (born 1960), Serbian handball player
* Slavica Ecclestone (born 1958), Croatian fashion model
* Slavica Jeremić (born 1957), Serbian handball player
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, population 33
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Vrata
Vrata is a Sanskrit word that means "vow, resolve, devotion", and refers to pious observances such as fasting and pilgrimage ( Tirtha) found in Indian religions such as Jainism and Hinduism. It is typically accompanied with prayers seeking hea ...
, population 287
History
Fužine was built in the 17th century when the
House of Zrinski
Zrinski () was a Croatian- Hungarian noble family, a cadet branch of the Croatian noble tribe of Šubić, influential during the period in history marked by the Ottoman wars in Europe in the Kingdom of Croatia's union with the Kingdom of Hunga ...
opened an iron mine in this area of
Gorski Kotar. Fužine got its name from
blacksmith
A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. tinsmith). Blacksmiths produce objects such as gates, gr ...
s, because there were many blacksmiths in Fužine fixing carriages. Significant events include the 1727 construction of the Karolina road connecting
Bakar
Bakar ( it, Buccari; hu, 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. Ninety percent of the ...
with
Karlovac, and the coming of the
Zagreb
Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slov ...
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Rijeka railroad in 1873.
Tourism
Fužine has a long tourism tradition. A lot of people started to come to Fužine to get away from the city life. There are numerous bike routes and hiking trails in the mountains surrounding the village. The Vrelo cave is opened for tourist throughout whole year. The cave is also accessible for people with wheelchair, and other disabilities.
Fužine also has a lot of festivities during the year:
* Summer in Fužine - concerts, sport competitions
* Big New Year's Eve party in the noon
* Lake regatta
* World championship in underwater orientation
* Fishing contest
Industry
Fužine has a number of saw mills. It also contains a large plant (Drvenjača d.d.) for producing
cellulose
Cellulose is an organic compound with the formula , a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to many thousands of β(1→4) linked D-glucose units. Cellulose is an important structural component of the primary cell w ...
pulp for paper manufacturing.
Geography
There are three large man-made lakes (Bajer and Lepenica) and one small lake (Potkoš) in Fužine.
All the lakes are used for generating electricity. There is also a cave in Fužine named Vrelo.
The area is surrounded by the mountains of
Tuhobić,
Viševica, and
Bitoraj.
Notable people
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Krešo Golik
Krešimir "Krešo" Golik (20 May 1922 – 20 September 1996) was a Croatian film and television director and screenwriter. In a creative career spanning five decades between the late 1940s and late 1980s, Golik directed a number of criticall ...
, movie maker
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Franjo Rački
Franjo Rački (25 November 1828 – 13 February 1894) was a Croatian historian, politician and writer. He compiled important collections of old Croatian diplomatic and historical documents, wrote some pioneering historical works, and was a key f ...
, historian
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Viktor Bubanj
Viktor Bubanj (3 December 1918 – 15 October 1972) was a Croatian general of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), who served as the Chief of the General Staff The Chief of the General Staff (CGS) is a post in many armed forces (militaries), the h ...
, general and
National Hero of Yugoslavia
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Dario Knežević
Dario Knežević (born 20 April 1982) is a former Croatian footballer who played as a defender.
Club career
Born in Rijeka, Knežević started his professional career with the city's First League side NK Rijeka in 2002 and subsequently made ...
, football player
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Vojislav Mišković
Vojislav Mišković (Serbian Cyrillic: ''Војислав Мишковић''; 1892, Fužine – 1976, Belgrade) was a Yugoslac astronomer, head of the Belgrade Observatory
Belgrade Observatory is an astronomical observatory located in the east ...
, astronomer
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