Dicmo is a municipality in

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 ...

in the

Split-Dalmatia County Split-Dalmatia County ( ) is a central-southern Dalmatian county in Croatia. The administrative center is Split. The population of the county is 455,242 (2011). The land area is 4.540 km2, the total area is 14.106,40 km2. Split-Dalmati ...

Population

In the 2011 census, it had a total population of 2,802, in the following settlements: * Ercegovci, population 143 *

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, population 514 * Krušvar, population 490 * Osoje, population 388 * Prisoje, population 643 * Sičane, population 502 * Sušci, population 122 In the same census, 98% were

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Geography and history

Dicmo is a municipality made up of small villages located on the bottom of several foot-hills and edges of a stretched karst field, connected via the D1 road in the middle of the field, with

Sinj Sinj () is a List of cities and towns in Croatia, town in the continental part of Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. As of the 2021 Croatian census, 2021 census, the population was 23,500 people, of which 10,800 inhabited its urban core. Sinj is k ...

10 km to the north, A1 Motorway 7 km to the south and

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20 km to the south-west. Dicmo has been inhabited since the Ilyrian ages, but the first mentions of it and its name comes from the word "Decimanum", because it was the "tenth mile" on the ancient road between

Salona Salona (, ) was an ancient city and the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia and near to Split, in Croatia. It was one of the largest cities of the late Roman empire with 60,000 inhabitants. It was the last residence of the final western ...

and

Aequum Aequum was a Roman colony located near modern-day Čitluk, Sinj, Čitluk, a village near Sinj, Croatia. It was founded by the emperor Claudius sometime after AD 45 and settled with the veterans of Legio VII Claudia Pia Fidelis. Location The valle ...

. Throughout its history, Dicmo has been a transit stop for both commercial and military reasons, and like the rest of today's Croatia, often changed administrations, due to both the Ottoman and Morean wars. During the Austro-Hungarian rule, a railway between Sinj and Split, "Rera", whose route passed through Dicmo is built. World War II came up and Dicmo was once again a transit route, this time for Italians and Germans on their path to Split, which allowed Italians to build a watchtower next to the local train station, the ruins of which can be seen to this day. At the beginning, there was a mix of sides, but after 1943, residents joined the fight against Axis powers. Notable WW2 event in the municipality took place in the Butige hamlet where several Ustaše soldiers were intercepted by Sinj partisans and eventually taken into Huso's pit (Husina jama), a mt. Kamešnica site where dozens of axis bodies were disposed. During the Yugoslav era, the area was under a former municipality of Sinj, during which the Rera railway was shut down, D1 road was built in the 1960s, while the electricity and the waterlines were installed in the 1970s and late 1980s, respectively. Many inhabitants of the municipality took part in the

Croatian War of Independence The Croatian War of Independence) and (rarely) "War in Krajina" ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Рат у Крајини, Rat u Krajini) are used. was an armed conflict fought in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 between Croats, Croat forces loyal to the Governmen ...

, after which Dicmo became a part of Croatia and a municipality in the Split-Dalmatia county, with the HDZ (Croatian Democrat Party) as a local leading political party. Most notable investment during the 21st century, during the ruling of the independent political party, is the municipality's Industrial Zone, with over 500 people from the nearby region employed in it.

Education

Osnovna škola Ante Starčevića Dicmo (Ante Starčević elementary school)

Sports

MNK Spartak (Futsal Club Spartak)

Notable people

Michael Anthony Bilandic Michael Anthony Bilandic (February 13, 1923January 15, 2002) was an American Democratic politician, judge, and attorney who served as the 49th mayor of Chicago from 1976 to 1979, after the death of his predecessor, Richard J. Daley. Bilandic ...

, former Chicago mayor whose parents were immigrants from Krušvar *

Ratko Rudić Ratko Rudić (born 7 June 1948) is a retired Croatian water polo coach and a former water polo player. , he has won 38 medals as a coach at major events, making him the most successful water polo coach in history, and second most successful team ...

, waterpolo coach *

Ivan Grubišić Ivan Grubišić (20 June 1936 – 19 March 2017) was a Croatian Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, and politician. He served in the Croatian Parliament from 2011 to 2015. Early life and education Ivan Grubišić was born in Dicmo in a poor famil ...

, Catholic priest, politician, sociologist * Bruno Silić, waterpolo coach * Inoslav Bešker, journalist

References

Populated places in Split-Dalmatia County Municipalities of Croatia {{SplitDalmatia-geo-stub