Fužine is a village and a municipality in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County

Primorje-Gorski Kotar County

Primorje-Gorski kotar County is a county in western Croatia that includes the Bay of Kvarner and the surrounding Northern Croatian seacoast, and the mountainous region of Gorski kotar...

 in western Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

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Demographics

The total population of Fužine is 1,595, in the following settlements

Naselje

Naselje is a settlement in Croatia, usually translated as settlement. It is the smallest unit of Croatian territory. Individual settlements are by and large referred to as selo , while naselje is a statistical and administrative category. The units of local government in Croatia, cities and...

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• Belo Selo, population 52
• Benkovac Fužinski, population 33
• Fužine, population 689
• Lič, population 502
• Slavica
  Slavica
  Slavica may refer to:* Slavica , a Slavic feminine given name** Slavica Ecclestone, a Croatian fashion model* Slavica , a proposed writing system for Serbian and Croatian languages...
  
  , population 33
• Vrata
  Vrata, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County
  Vrata is a village in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia. The village is administered as a part of Fužine municipality.According to national census of 2001, population of the village is 309....
  
  , population 285

History

Fužine is a town that was built in the 17th century when the House of Zrinski opened an iron mine in this area of Gorski Kotar

Gorski kotar

Gorski kotar is the mountainous region in Croatia between Karlovac and Rijeka. Together with Lika and the Ogulin-Plaški valley it forms Mountainous Croatia. Because 63% of its surface is forested it is popularly called the green lungs of Croatia or Croatian Switzerland...

. Fužine got its name from blacksmith

Blacksmith

A blacksmith is a person who creates objects from wrought iron or steel by forging the metal; that is, by using tools to hammer, bend, and cut...

s, because there were many blacksmiths in Fužine fixing carriages. Significant events include the 1737 construction of the Karolina road connecting Bakar

Bakar

Bakar ) is a town in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in western Croatia. The population of the town is 1,566 , while the population of the municipality is 7,773. 90% declare themselves Croats . The old part of Bakar is situated on a hill overlooking the Bay of Bakar...

 with Karlovac

Karlovac

Karlovac is a city and municipality in central Croatia. The city proper has a population of 49,082, while the municipality has a population of 59,395 inhabitants .Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County...

, and the coming of the Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

-Rijeka

Rijeka

Rijeka is the principal seaport and the third largest city in Croatia . It is located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and has a population of 128,735 inhabitants...

 railroad in 1873.

Geography

There are three large lakes (Bajer and Lepenica) and one small lake (Potkoš) in Fužine.

All the lakes are used for generating electricity. There is also a cave in Fužine that is called Vrelo.

The town area is surrounded by the mountains of Tuhobić

Tuhobić

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, Viševica

Viševica

Viševica is a mountain in Gorski Kotar, Croatia. Its highest peak is the eponymous Viševica at 1,428 m.a.s.l.-References:...

, and Bitoraj

Bitoraj

Bitoraj is a mountain in Gorski Kotar, Croatia. Its highest peak is the eponymous Bitoraj at 1,140 m.a.s.l.-References:...

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