municipality
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in the southern part of
Lika
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,
Croatia
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. The municipality is administratively part of Zadar County.
Gračac is located south of Udbina, northeast of Obrovac, northwest of Knin and southeast of Gospić.
Dugopolje
Dugopolje is a municipality in Croatia in the Split-Dalmatia County.
The name ''Dugopolje'' literally translates as 'long field'. The town has a population of over 3469, 99.5% which are Croats. Noted in Dugopolje is Vranjača cave. Dugopolje ...
Kom
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Srb
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Tomingaj
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Nikola Tesla ( ; ,"Tesla" '', population 26
* Velika Popina, population 71
* Vučipolje, population 1
* Zaklopac, population 23
* Zrmanja, population 21
* Zrmanja Vrelo, population 28
History
Gračac was ruled by
Ottoman Empire
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between 1527 and 1687 (nominally to 1699) as part of the Sanjak of Lika in the Bosnia Eyalet before Austrian conquest. The 1712–14 census of Lika and Krbava registered 1,711 inhabitants, out of whom 1,655 were Vlachs, 53 were Catholic Bunjevci and 3 were Catholic
Croats
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. The term "Vlach" was used at the time to describe a population of
Eastern Orthodox
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Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canonical ...
religion and rarely as an ethnic group. Those families that moved to Gračac came from area south east of
Belgrade
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. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Gračac was part of the
Lika-Krbava County
Lika-Krbava County ( hr, Ličko-krbavska županija; sr, Личко-крбавска жупанија; hu, Lika-Korbava vármegye) was a historic administrative subdivision of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. Croatia-Slavonia was an autonom ...
of the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
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Dalmatia
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in the modern sense because of its inclusion in Zadar County.
Demographics
Note: in some censa, such as in 1981, parts of the population listed themselves as
Yugoslavs
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instead of Croat or Serb.
Attractions
The name Gračac is derived from "gradina" which means an old abandoned
castle
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. Near the town there are Lake Štikada and the
karst field
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of Gračac. The Cerovac caves nearby are open for tourists. The town is on the way into the Lika region of Zadar county, and the surroundings offer good hunting game.