Brotnja ( sr-cyr, Бротња) is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

. It is connected by the D218 highway.

History

During the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, on 27 July 1941, Serb Communist insurgents and

Chetniks The Chetniks,, ; formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland; and informally colloquially the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist m ...

attacked the village and committed a massacre of Croat civilians known as the Brotnja massacre. On 27 March 2022 at 14:54 the ''ŽVOC Zadar'' received a call about a

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in the area. burned by the time it was put out at 17:00 by ''IVP Zadar''.

Population

According to the 2011 census, Brotnja had 47 inhabitants.

1991 census

According to the 1991 census, settlement of Brotnja had 125 inhabitants, which were ethnically declared as following:

Austro-hungarian 1910 census

According to the 1910 census, settlement of Brotnja had 531 inhabitants in 4 hamlets, which were linguistically and religiously declared as this:

Literature

Savezni zavod za statistiku i evidenciju FNRJ i SFRJ, popis stanovništva 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981. i 1991. godine. * Knjiga: "Narodnosni i vjerski sastav stanovništva Hrvatske, 1880-1991: po naseljima, autor: Jakov Gelo, izdavač: Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, 1998., , ;

References

Populated places in Zadar County Lika Serb communities in Croatia {{Zadar-geo-stub