Korenica

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In SFR Yugoslavia it was named Titova Korenica after Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito. The population consists of local ethnic Croats and Serbs, and there are also Croats from Bosnia who moved to Croatia after the Croatian War for Independence.

Korenica has one elementary school and one high school.

History

The 1712 census of Lika and Krbava records that 119 Vlach (i.e. Serb Orthodox Christian) families live in Korenica.[2]

When the German and Italian Zones of Influence were revised on 24 June 1942, Korenica fell in Template:Ill, administered civilly by Croatia but militarily by Italy.Template:Sfn

Until 1918, Korenica was part of the Austrian monarchy (Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Lika-Krbava County) after the compromise of 1867), in the Croatian Military Frontier, administered by the Kommando Ottotschaner Regiment N°II before 1881. A post-office was opened in 1862.[3]

Climate

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Demographics

1991 census:[6]

Serbs 1,519 / 88.51%
Yugoslavs 84 / 4.89%
Croats 49 / 2.85%
Albanians 4 / 0.23%
Muslims 3 / 0.17%
Italians 2 / 0.11%
Hungarians 2 / 0.11%
Slovenians 1 / 0.05%
Montenegrins 1 / 0.05%
undeclared 15 / 0.87%
unknown 36 / 2.09%

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NOTE: Population figures for the period 1857–1880 also include population figures for the following settlements: Drakulić Rijeka, Gradina Korenička, Homoljac, Jasikovac, Kalebovac, Kompolje Koreničko, Mihaljevac, Oravac, Ponor Korenički, Šeganovac, Vranovača and Vrpile.

Sights

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Catholic church
  • Saint George's Catholic Church
  • Site of the Monument to the fallen partisan soldiers and civilian victims of fascism during the National Liberation War (WWII) from the Lika region, in Bijeli Potoci (destroyed around 2008)[7]
  • Ruins of the Serbian Orthodox Church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel, destroyed in 1943

Notable people

See also

References

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  1. Template:Croatian Census 2011
  2. http://www.skdprosvjeta.com/pdf/9.pdf Template:Webarchive Karl Kaser, POPIS LIKE I KRBAVE 1712. GODINE, (prijevod s njemačkog: Sanja Lazanin), 2003, #page=19
  3. Handbook of Austria and Lombardy-Venetia Cancellations on the Postage Stamp Issues 1850–1864, by Edwin MUELLER, 1961.
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Bibliography

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