The township ( / ) is bordered on the east by the sea of Quarnero from S.Martino to

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; to the North by the Township Chermenizza; and to the East by the Township . The head hamlet of the Township of Cerovica was which is located approximately 4 km north-east of

. In the hamlet of Skitača is the chapel of

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of Albona, which became a parish church for all of the Township of Cerovica. The small chapel was built in 1616 and became a Parish in 1632. The last time it was renovated was in the 1990s. The township was called Cerovica under the control of both the

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and the

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. It was one of the 12 subdivisions of the District of Albona.

History

From antique times, / , and / were two castles that were considered one district. In 1632, the Administrator of Dalmatia and Albania, Antonio Civran, divided the territory of Albona, () into 12 fractions. During the Austrian redivision in 1814-1818, they were merged into two larger agricultural municipalities.

Cerovica in the 1800

Cerovica was one of twelve municipalities in the

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peninsula in

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, during the reign of the

. Cerovica is also the name of a small hamlet north of Skitača in the former municipality of Cerovica (Istria). Also called "St.Lucia di Albona," Skitača. The Municipality of Cerovica (Istria) is located in the southern part of the District of Albona, ( Istrian Circle) in the most southern township of the Labinstina peninsula. It is made up of eight various hills, some of which are cultivable land. Most of the land was stony and very tough for the settlers when they first cleared it. The settlers lived in small group of houses called hamlets ( or ). Cerovica (Istria) borders the

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on its east and southern coasts. To the north is the municipality of Chermanizza (Istria). To the southwest is the municipality of Vlahovo (Istria). There were no roads until 1930–40 in the municipality of Cerovica (Istria). Only small paths (called ''stasica'' in Croatian) remain, which people and animals used to go to various places. The cement factory in

Koromačno Koromačno (, as it was called under the Italian control) is a small hamlet adjacent to the cement factory for which it was built in the early 1900 for the workers. It is also a small port to accept small cargo ships to carry the cement to other p ...

built the road in the 1930s, which is used today to go to

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and other cities. In 1820, there were 405 people living in the municipality of Cerovica (Istria). The municipality's people owned 107 oxen, 69 cows, and 1,098 sheep. In 1800, there were 86 houses, most of which were made of dry stone walls and straw roofs. Many hamlets grew tremendously during the Austrian occupation. Some people owned more than one house and some as many as four.

Hamlets in Cerovica in the 1800

During the Austria-Hungary occupation and re-organization the settlements which belonged to Cerovica with Skitača as the "sotto comune."

1827
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data

Land classifications

Chapels in Cerovica

These are some of the chapels in the Cerovica in Istria County Croatia. A village is a group of houses in the country, larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town or city. Such a community is usually incorporated as a municipality. There were no villages in the Township of Cerovica in the 1800, only hamlets and small settlements with a few houses. In the hamlet of Prodol there was a coal mine which employed between four and six men daily. The people of the hamlet of

near the sea were fishermen and farmers. Between 1918 and 1945 the names were changed to Italian. After 1945, the names were changed again, this time to Croatian. Some hamlets joined with other very close hamlets or fractions to form a brand new name, sometimes only one name for the group.

References

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