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43° 98' 58 N |
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15° 97' 54E |
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Kistanje is a village and municipality in Šibenik-Knin County
Šibenik-Knin County
Šibenik-Knin County is a county in Croatia, located in north-central Dalmatia. Its center is Šibenik; other notable towns are Knin, Drniš and Skradin....
, 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 ...
. According to the 2001 census
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
, Kistanje municipality has 3,038 inhabitants of which 57.14% are Serbs
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
and 41.31% are Croats
Croats
Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...
.
History
Kistanje was first mentioned under its present name in 1401. In 1527, a Serbian Orthodox Church dedicated to St Nicholas was built in the townhttp://www.eparhija-dalmatinska.hr/Parohija-Kistanje-L.htm. Kistanje was a trade center of this part of BukovicaBukovica
Bukovica is a geographical region in Croatia. It is situated in northern Dalmatia, between Lika in the north, Kninska Krajina in the east, and Ravni Kotari in the south-west. Prior to the war, it encompassed the western half of the Knin municipality, the eastern half of the Benkovac municipality...
. After the Kuridža rebellion in 1704, the town was renamed Kvartir, but in the 19th century it was again known as Kistanje. The second Orthodox church, dedicated to Sts Cyril and Methodius
Saints Cyril and Methodius
Saints Cyril and Methodius were two Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Bulgaria, Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they...
was built in 1888. In the 19th and the first part of the 20th century, Kistanje was a centre of municipality. In 1960s, the municipality was abolished and its territory was joined to the municipality of Knin
Knin
Knin is a historical town in the Šibenik-Knin county of Croatia, located near the source of the river Krka at , in the Dalmatian hinterland, on the railroad Zagreb–Split. Knin rose to prominence twice in history, as a one-time capital of both the Kingdom of Croatia and briefly of the...
.
During the Croatian War of Independence
Croatian War of Independence
The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between forces loyal to the government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia —and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army and local Serb forces, with the JNA ending its combat...
, Kistanje was a part of the rebel Republic of Serbian Krajina
Republic of Serbian Krajina
The Republic of Serbian Krajina was a self-proclaimed Serb entity within Croatia. Established in 1991, it was not recognized internationally. It formally existed from 1991 to 1995, having been initiated a year earlier via smaller separatist regions. The name Krajina means "frontier"...
until Operation Storm
Operation Storm
Operation Storm is the code name given to a large-scale military operation carried out by Croatian Armed Forces, in conjunction with the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to gain back control of parts of Croatia which had been claimed by separatist ethnic Serbs, since early...
in 1995, where the majority of the population fled. Around 10 August 1995, while the area was under Croatian Army control, Kistanje was completely burnt and destroyed. A few years later, in order to re-settle "regions of special state concern", the Croatian government began moving Croatian Kosovars
Kosovo
Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...
(known as Janjevci
Janjevci
Janjevci are Croatian inhabitants of the Kosovo town of Janjevo and surrounding villages, located near Pristina as well as villages centered on Letnica near Vitina ....
) to the town, settling them in new buildings and abandoned Serb houses. In 1997, Kistanje became a municipality again in Šibenik-Knin county
Šibenik-Knin County
Šibenik-Knin County is a county in Croatia, located in north-central Dalmatia. Its center is Šibenik; other notable towns are Knin, Drniš and Skradin....
.
Population
According to the 1981 census, the population of the town of Kistanje was composed of mostly SerbsSerbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
and 5.3% Yugoslavs
Yugoslavs
Yugoslavs is a national designation used by a minority of South Slavs across the countries of the former Yugoslavia and in the diaspora...
, while according to the 1991 census, the population was composed of 98% Serbs. Prior to 1995, out of the 14 settlement comprising the present Kistanje municipality, ethnic Serbs
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
comprised the entire population in 13, with only Nunić
Nunic
Nunić is a village in the municipality of Kistanje, in the Bukovica region of Croatia....
having a small community of ethnic Croats
Croats
Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...
that was still outnumbered by the Serb majority.
Geography
Kistanje is located in northern DalmatiaDalmatia
Dalmatia is a historical region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. It stretches from the island of Rab in the northwest to the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. The hinterland, the Dalmatian Zagora, ranges from fifty kilometers in width in the north to just a few kilometers in the south....
, in the region called Bukovica
Bukovica
Bukovica is a geographical region in Croatia. It is situated in northern Dalmatia, between Lika in the north, Kninska Krajina in the east, and Ravni Kotari in the south-west. Prior to the war, it encompassed the western half of the Knin municipality, the eastern half of the Benkovac municipality...
. The municipality of Kistanje include 14 settlements:
- Kistanje
- Biovičino SeloBiovicino SeloBiovičino Selo is a village located in the municipality of Kistanje, in the Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia. The village is situated in northern Dalmatia, in the region known as Bukovica.-History:...
- Đevrske
- GošićGošicGošić is a hamlet in the municipality of Kistanje, in the Bukovica region of Croatia.Its population before the Yugoslav Wars of 1991-1995 and the subsequent exodus of the Serbs during Operation Storm was only 107, all citizens being ethnic Serbs...
- IvoševciIvoševciIvoševci is a village located in the municipality of Kistanje, in the Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia. The village is situated in northern Dalmatia, in the region known as Bukovica...
- Kakanj
- Kolašac
- Krnjeuve
- Modrino Selo
- NunićNunicNunić is a village in the municipality of Kistanje, in the Bukovica region of Croatia....
- ParčićParcicParčić is a small village located in the region called Bukovica, 14 km northwest of Kistanje, in the continental part of Šibenik-Knin County, in inland Dalmatia, Croatia.In the village there is an early Ortodox church from the 13th century....
- SmrdeljeSmrdeljeSmrdelje is a small village located 8 km southwest of Kistanje, in the continental part of Šibenik-Knin County, in inland Dalmatia, Croatia....
- VarivodeVarivodeVarivode , in the municipality of Kistanje. Prior to the Yugoslav Wars of 1991-1995 the village was a part of the municipality of Knin, and according to the census of 1991, it had a population of 477 people, all of them ethnic Serbs...
- ZečevoZecevoZečevo is a Croatian village in the Šibenik-Knin County, near the town of Rogoznica. It is located in the Dalmatia region.Zečevo became known widely known in Croatia during the Croatian War of Independence when a Croatian volunteer army hit two planes of the Yugoslav Army during the aerial bombing,...
- Macure
Notable people
Prominent individuals that were born or that have lived either in Kistanje or the surrounding villages include:- Petar Jagodić Kuridža
- Vladimir Ardalić
- Mirko Korolija
- Simo DubajićSimo DubajićSimo Dubajić was a Yugoslav Partisan soldier. A Serb from Croatia, he gained prominence by being involved in inter-ethnic conflicts between Croats and Serbs on two separate occasions, once during World War II and again during the Croatian War of Independence.Dubajić was born in the village of...
See also
- Šibenik-Knin CountyŠibenik-Knin CountyŠibenik-Knin County is a county in Croatia, located in north-central Dalmatia. Its center is Šibenik; other notable towns are Knin, Drniš and Skradin....
- DalmatiaDalmatiaDalmatia is a historical region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. It stretches from the island of Rab in the northwest to the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. The hinterland, the Dalmatian Zagora, ranges from fifty kilometers in width in the north to just a few kilometers in the south....
- BukovicaBukovicaBukovica is a geographical region in Croatia. It is situated in northern Dalmatia, between Lika in the north, Kninska Krajina in the east, and Ravni Kotari in the south-west. Prior to the war, it encompassed the western half of the Knin municipality, the eastern half of the Benkovac municipality...
- Serbs of CroatiaSerbs of CroatiaVišeslav of Serbia, a contemporary of Charlemagne , ruled the Županias of Neretva, Tara, Piva, Lim, his ancestral lands. According to the Royal Frankish Annals , Duke of Pannonia Ljudevit Posavski fled, during the Frankish invasion, from his seat in Sisak to the Serbs in western Bosnia, who...
- Krka monasteryKrka monasteryKrka Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Archangel Michael, located near the river Krka, 3 km east of Kistanje, in central Dalmatia, Croatia...
- BurnumBurnumBurnum or Burnum Municipium, an archaeological site, was a Roman Legion camp and town. It is located 2.5 km north of Kistanje, in inland Dalmatia, Croatia...