Korenica is a village in

Lika Lika () is a traditional region of Croatia proper, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Plješevica mountain from the northeast. On the north-west end Lika is bounded by Ogulin-Plaški basin, and on the south-east b ...

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, located in the municipality of Plitvička Jezera, on the D1 road between Plitvice and Udbina. According to 2011 census it has 1,766 residents. It is the seat of the Plitvička Jezera Municipality. In

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it was named ''Titova Korenica'' after Yugoslav leader

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. The population consists of local ethnic Croats and Serbs, and there are also Croats from Bosnia who moved to Croatia after the

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. Korenica has one elementary school and one high school.

History

The 1712 census of Lika and Krbava records that 119 Vlach (i.e. Serb Orthodox Christian) families live in Korenica. Until 1918, Korenica was part of the

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(

Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia The Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia ( hr, Kraljevina Hrvatska i Slavonija; hu, Horvát-Szlavónország or ; de-AT, Königreich Kroatien und Slawonien) was a nominally autonomous kingdom and constitutionally defined separate political nation with ...

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 ...

) after the

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), in the

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, administered by the ''Kommando Ottotschaner Regiment N°II'' before 1881. A post-office was opened in 1862.

Demographics

Census 1991: ;Serbs 1.519 / 88,51 % ;Yugoslavs 84 / 4,89 % ;Croats 49 / 2,85 % ;Albanians 4 / 0,23 % ;Muslims 3 / 0,17 % ;Italians 2 / 0,11 % ;Hungarians 2 / 0,11 % ;Slovenians 1 / 0,05 % ;Montenegrins 1 / 0,05 % ;undeclared 15 / 0,87 % ;unknown 36 / 2,09 %
:NOTE: Population figures for the period 1857–1880 also include population figures for the following settlements:

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, Gradina Korenička,

Homoljac Homoljac ( sr-cyr, Хомољац) is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D52 highway. Geography Homoljac is about 11 km northwest of Korenica. It is located between Vrhovine Vrhovine ( sr-Cyrl, Врховине) is a town a ...

, Jasikovac, Kalebovac, Kompolje Koreničko, Mihaljevac, Oravac, Ponor Korenički, Šeganovac, Vranovača and Vrpile.

Sights

Catholic church st George * Site of the Monument to the fallen partisan soldiers and civilian victims of fascism during the National Liberation War (WWII) from the Lika region, in Bijeli Potoci (destroyed around 2008) * Ruins of the Serbian Orthodox Church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel, destroyed in 1943

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{{Coord, 44, 44, 36, N, 15, 42, 23, E, display=title, region:HR_type:city(1570)_source:dewiki Populated places in Lika-Senj County

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