Koljane is a small village in

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 ...

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 ...

. Koljane is a settlement in the

Vrlika Vrlika is a small town in inland Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. The closest large towns are Sinj, Knin, and Drniš. Vrlika was given the status of town in 1997. Vrlika is an underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as the Ar ...

municipality, and the majority of the population are

Croats The Croats (; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other neighboring countries in Central Europe, Central and Southeastern Europe who share a common Croatian Cultural heritage, ancest ...

. In the 1991 census, the population of Koljane was 285, and the majority were Serbs with 90% (257). Koljane is located in inland

Dalmatia Dalmatia (; ; ) is a historical region located in modern-day Croatia and Montenegro, on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. Through time it formed part of several historical states, most notably the Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Croatia (925 ...

, on the coast of Peruća Lake, 15 km east of

. Serbian Orthodox Dragović Monastery is situated in Koljane. On the location of Crkvine, the remains of an early church from the 9th century have been found; the plate of the altar partition, adorned with " pleter" (interlacery ornaments), is one of the best preserved and most beautiful monuments of the early Middle Ages in Croatia. Around the church are numerous graves; their finds include earrings from the 9th to 12th centuries, as well as swords and spurs of the

Carolingian The Carolingian dynasty ( ; known variously as the Carlovingians, Carolingus, Carolings, Karolinger or Karlings) was a Frankish noble family named after Charles Martel and his grandson Charlemagne, descendants of the Arnulfing and Pippinid c ...

type (9th century).

Notable people

* Jovan Krkobabić *

Boško Marinko Boško Marinko (; Koljane, 11 August 1939 – Subotica, 18 July 2020) was a Serbian wrestler who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics and 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the ...

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Populated places in Split-Dalmatia County Vrlika Serb communities in Croatia {{SplitDalmatia-geo-stub

Notable people

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