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, with a population of 3,825 (2011 census). It is located near the Krka river and at the entrance to the

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, from

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and from

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. The main attraction of the park, Slapovi Krke, is a series of waterfalls, the biggest of which,

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, was named after Skradin.

History

It was a Liburnian city, named Scardon ( grc, Σκάρδων). Later it became a Roman town (Scardona in Latin), as the administrative and military centre of the region. It was destroyed during the

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, and had by the 9th century been settled by Slavs. During the 10th century, it was one of the fortified towns in Croatia, as the centre of the Skradin županija.

Skradin under Šubić rule

In the late 13th and early 14th centuries, Skradin flourished as the capital of the Šubić bans,

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and

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. The Šubić's built the Turina fortress on the hill overlooking the Skradin harbor. They elevated the settlement below the fortress to a free city, at which point it also became a commune, and was granted its own statute and administration. They further enriched the city by constructing several richly-endowed monasteries which housed the Dominicans,

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and other Christian orders.

Decline and Ottoman conquest

Between 1522 and 1684 it was ruled by the

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, then again up to 1794 by the

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. In October 1683, the population of Venetian Dalmatia, principally Uskoks of Ravni kotari, took arms and together with the rayah (lower class) of the Ottoman frontier regions rose up, taking Skradin,

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, Vrana, Benkovac and Obrovac. Later, it was occupied by Napoleon as part of the

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, then

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. In time it lost its importance as the centre of the region, which shifted to Šibenik, and so it stagnated - the

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, population 179 * Ićevo, population 59 * Krković, population 189 * Lađevci, population 112 * Međare, population 6 * Piramatovci, population 275 * Plastovo, population 204 * Rupe, population 470 * Skradin, population 588 * Skradinsko Polje, population 46 * Sonković, population 336 * Vaćani, population 120 *

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, population 29 * Žažvić, population 30 * Ždrapanj, population 15

Notable people

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References

External links

* {{Authority control Cities and towns in Croatia Populated places in Šibenik-Knin County Cities in ancient Illyria Illyrian Croatia