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Blagaj Castle (Sana)
Blagaj () is a medieval ruined castle located on the right bank of the Korana river in modern Karlovac county, Croatia. Around it formed an eponymous village, Blagaj, Croatia, Blagaj. It has a rectangular floorplan, and was once one of the larger castles in the region, with a central tower, similar to Belaj castle, Karlovac county, Belaj, Karlovac county. The old parish church of Sv. Duh is proposed to have been situated not far from the ruins, where there are today two churches next to each other. Geography The castle shares its name with several others in the Dinaric Alps, Dinaric area. One is Blagaj Castle (Sana), Blagaj on the Sana (river), Sana in modern Bosnia. The other is Blagaj Fort on the Buna (Neretva), Buna, also in Bosnia Blagaj is a castle of the Kordun region, a low karst plateau. The Korana river cuts through the Kordun, flowing from its source at the beginning of the Plitvice Lakes National Park, Plitvice lakes to its confluence with the river Kupa. Several not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blagaj, Croatia
Blagaj is a village in Croatia's Karlovac County, near the town of Slunj Slunj ( Hungarian ''Szluin'', old German ''Sluin'', Latin ''Slovin'', archaic Croatian ''Slovin grad'') is a town in the mountainous part of Central Croatia, located along the important North-South route to the Adriatic Sea between Karlovac and .... According to the 2001 Croatian census, the village had 38 inhabitants. References Populated places in Karlovac County {{Karlovac-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babonić Family
The Babonić family ( hu, Babonics or ''Vodicsai'') was an old and powerful Croatian noble family from the medieval Slavonia whose most notable members were Bans (viceroys) of Slavonia and Croatia. History The first known member of this family by name is Stephen I, known as Babon († at the beginning of the 13th century). The original possessions of Babonić were located on the right bank of the Kupa river between today's Karlovac and Sisak. Their first important stronghold was the town of Steničnjak. They rise of the family began at the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries when they received enormous estates from the Kings of Hungary. At the time of their greatest power, they held huge area from Carniola to Vrbas and from Sava to Gvozd, which also included fortified towns of Medvedgrad, Susedgrad, Kostanjevica and Mehovo. Family connections They were related by blood to the most powerful families of the region, Counts of Gorizia, Venetian Morosini family, Zrinsk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klokoč Castle
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Klokoč may refer to: *Klokoč, Croatia *Klokoč, Slovakia Klokoč ( hu, Hegyhát) is a village and municipality in Detva District, in the Banská Bystrica Region of central Slovakia. Genealogical resources The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Bans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glina (river)
Glina is a river in central Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, a right tributary of Kupa. It is long and its basin covers an area of . Glina rises in the mountainous forested areas of Kordun, northeast of Slunj, near the village of Glinsko Vrelo (lit. "the source of Glina"). It flows north before turning east near the village of Veljunska Glina. As it reaches the village of Maljevac, it touches the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina (north of Velika Kladuša), whose path it forms (roughly) for about up to the village of Katinovac. There it turns northeast, passes by Topusko and finally the eponymous town of Glina. At the village of Marinbrod it turns north, and flows into the river Kupa The Kupa () or Kolpa ( or ; from la, Colapis in Roman times; hu, Kulpa) river, a right tributary of the Sava, forms a natural border between north-west Croatia and southeast Slovenia. It is long, with its border part having a length of and ... southwest of Slana, at . References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topusko
Topusko is a municipality in Sisak-Moslavina County, Croatia. Topusko is an underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as the First Category Area of Special State Concern by the Government of Croatia. Demographics The population of Topusko itself is 945, with a total of 2,985 people in the municipality (census 2011). There are 1865 Croats (62.48%), 893 Serbs (22.27%) and 139 Bosniaks (4.66%). The 1991 census recorded that 63.89% of the population of Topusko settlement were ethnic Serbs (1014/1587), 26.15% were Croats (415/1587), 6.36% were Yugoslavs (101/1587) while 3.59% were of other ethnic origin (57/1587). :NOTE: The 1869 and 1880 population data is included in the population data of Ponikvari. Settlements The municipality includes 16 settlements: *Batinova Kosa, population 50 * Bukovica, population 2 * Crni Potok, population 153 *Donja Čemernica, population 170 * Gređani, population 341 * Hrvatsko Selo, population 310 * Katinovac, population 90 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blagajski
The Blagaj family or Blagay were a Croatian noble family, hereditary counts ( hr, knezovi Blagajski) that were a cadet branch of the medieval Babonić family, and named after their estate of Blagaj on the Sana in the 14th century. Over the course of the Croatian-Ottoman wars, they migrated to the northwest and by the end of the 16th century became part of Austrian and Slovenian nobility. They went extinct in the 19th century. The Babonić family divided their properties in 1313 and 1314 between brothers Ivan (d. after 1334), Stjepan IV (d. 1316) and Radoslav II (). Radoslav received the town and estate of Blagaj (Blagay), and his sons Nikola III and Dujam stopped using the name Babonić, rather referring to themselves as Counts of Blagaj. Around 1430, wishing to link themselves to the oldest existing noble families of Europe, the family forged documents that allowed them to claim kinship to the House of Orsini, a Roman family that produced many Popes and Cardinals. Stephen of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zrin Castle
Zrin Castle (''Gradina Zrin'') is a ruined castle located in the village of Zrin, south of the town of Sisak in Dvor municipality, central Croatia. History The castle was first mentioned in the 13th century as a fortress ruled by the Babonić clan. Between 1328 and 1347, it was possessed by the members of Iločki family. In 1347, King Louis I the Great bestowed the fortress to the noble Šubić family who then changed their family name after it, becoming the Zrinski. It remained in their possession until the Ottoman invasion and conquest of the region, which led to the fortress falling to them on 20 October 1577. It was not until 1718 that the castle was retaken from the Ottomans.Zrinske Utvrde u Hrvatskom Pounju Notable people *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ozalj
Ozalj (, hu, Ozaly, german: Wosail or ''Woseil'') is a town in central Croatia, located north of Karlovac and southwest of Jastrebarsko, on the Kupa River. It is close to Žumberak in the north and the border with Slovenia in the northwest, with Metlika being the closest Slovenian town. History The town was built on a cliff over the Kupa river and the first mention of it dates from 1244, as a free royal town. The Frankopan family owned it since 1398, then it passed to the Zrinski family in 1550, and it stayed theirs until 1671. The city commemorates 30 April as its day, in memory of the event in 1671 when Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan were executed. The patron saint of the town is St. Vitus, whose feast is celebrated on 15 June. Munjara Munjara is the old hydroelectric plant. This plant has three 3.5 megawatt generators and was built between 1907 and 1908. Population The town of Ozalj itself has a population of 1,181, with a total of 6,817 people in the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
