Turkovići Ogulinski is a village in
Karlovac
Karlovac () is a city in central Croatia. In the 2021 census, its population was 49,377.
Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County. The city is located southwest of Zagreb and northeast of Rijeka, and is connected to them via the ...
,
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 ...
, and a suburb of
Ogulin
Ogulin () is a town in central Croatia, in Karlovac County. It has a population of 7,389 (2021) (it was 8,216 in 2011), and a total municipal population of 12,251 (2021). Ogulin is known for its historic stone castle, known as Kula, and the nearby ...
.
The village sits on the foothills of
Klek, near the
Vitunjčica River.
Turkovići Ogulinski was previously incorporated with the
Frankopan
The House of Frankopan (, , , ) was a Croatian noble family, whose members were among the great landowner magnates and high officers of the Kingdom of Croatia in union with Hungary.
The Frankopans, along with the Zrinskis, are among the mos ...
City of Vitunj, however, the city was abandoned in 1575. In 1847, the first waterway for Ogulin was built in Turkovići.
Demographics
According to the Census of 2001, the village had a population of 255 residents, along with 82 family households.
Economy
* In the time of the
Banovina of Croatia
The Banovina of Croatia or Banate of Croatia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=, Banovina Hrvatska, Бановина Хрватска) was an administrative subdivision ( banovina) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1939 and 1941. It was formed by a m ...
, the
fish farm
Fish farming or pisciculture involves commercial breeding of fish, most often for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds. It is a particular type of aquaculture, which is the controlled cultivation and harvesting of aq ...
"Podklek" in Turkovići held the status of Banate fish farm ().
References
Bibliography
* {{cite book , date=1940e , author=Banska vlast Banovine Hrvatske , chapter=Srezovi , pages=330–337 , chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OnlAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA334 , title=Godišnjak banske vlasti Banovine Hrvatske , volume=1 , language=hr
Populated places in Karlovac County