Korenica is a village in Lika,

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, located in the municipality of

Plitvička Jezera Plitvička Jezera ( or just ''Plitvice'' ; ''Plitvice Lakes'', in English) is a municipality (''općina'') in central Croatia, in the eastern part of the Lika-Senj county, that lies in and near the eponymous Plitvice Lakes National Park, bisected ...

, on the D1 road between Plitvice and

Udbina Udbina is a village and a municipality in historical Krbava, in the Lika region of Croatia. It is administratively a part of the Lika-Senj County. Geography Udbina is located in the large karst field called Krbava. It is approximately 45 kilomet ...

. According to 2011 census it has 1,766 residents. It is the seat of the Plitvička Jezera Municipality. In SFR Yugoslavia it was named ''Titova Korenica'' after Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito. The population consists of local ethnic Croats and Serbs, and there are also Croats from Bosnia who moved to Croatia after the Croatian War for Independence. Korenica has one elementary school and one high school.

History

The 1712 census of Lika and Krbava records that 119

Vlach "Vlach" ( or ), also "Wallachian" (and many other variants), is a historical term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate mainly Romanians but also Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, Istro-Romanians and other Easter ...

(i.e. Serb Orthodox Christian) families live in Korenica. Until 1918, Korenica was part of the

Austrian monarchy The Habsburg monarchy (german: Habsburgermonarchie, ), also known as the Danubian monarchy (german: Donaumonarchie, ), or Habsburg Empire (german: Habsburgerreich, ), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities ...

( Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia,

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 auton ...

) after the

compromise of 1867 The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 (german: Ausgleich, hu, Kiegyezés) established the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary. The Compromise only partially re-established the former pre-1848 sovereignty and status of the Kingdom of Hungary ...

), in the

Croatian Military Frontier The Croatian Military Frontier ( hr, Vojna krajina or ') was a district of the Military Frontier, a territory in the Habsburg monarchy, first during the period of the Austrian Empire and then during Austria-Hungary. History Founded in the late 1 ...

, 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: Drakulić Rijeka, Gradina Korenička, Homoljac, Jasikovac, Kalebovac, Kompolje Koreničko, Mihaljevac, Oravac, Ponor Korenički, Šeganovac,

Vranovača Vranovača ( sr-cyr, Врановача) is a village in Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") ...

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 Wars of national liberation or national liberation revolutions are conflicts fought by nations to gain independence. The term is used in conjunction with wars against foreign powers (or at least those perceived as foreign) to establish separat ...

(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

References

{{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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