Lopar, Croatia
Encyclopedia
Lopar is a Croatia
n municipality of Primorje–Gorski Kotar County. It gained the municipality status in 2006 and its population amounts of 1,120.
island. Close to its coast there are located the two little islands of Goli otok
(literary Barren island) and Sveti Grgur
(St. Gregory).
(born in the island of Rab), the founder of the eponymous republic
.
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 ...
n municipality of Primorje–Gorski Kotar County. It gained the municipality status in 2006 and its population amounts of 1,120.
Geography
The municipality is situated in the northest side of RabRab
Rab is an island in Croatia and a town of the same name located just off the northern Croatian coast in the Adriatic Sea.The island is long, has an area of and 9,480 inhabitants . The highest peak is Kamenjak at 408 meters...
island. Close to its coast there are located the two little islands of Goli otok
Goli otok
Goli otok is an island off the northern Adriatic coast, located between Rab's northeastern shore and the mainland, in what is today Croatia's Primorje-Gorski Kotar county. The island is barren and uninhabited...
(literary Barren island) and Sveti Grgur
Sveti Grgur
Sveti Grgur is an uninhabited island in Croatia, on the Adriatic Sea between Rab and Krk. The island was the site of a women's prison in communist Yugoslavia from 1948 to 1988.-Literature:*Milutin Popović, Sećanja na logor Sveti Grgur...
(St. Gregory).
Notable people
Lopar is suddenly considered the birthplace of Saint MarinusSaint Marinus
Saint Marinus was the founder of the world's oldest surviving republic, San Marino, in 301. Tradition holds that he was a stonemason by trade who came from the island of Rab on the other side of the Adriatic Sea , fleeing persecution for his Christian beliefs in the Diocletianic Persecution...
(born in the island of Rab), the founder of the eponymous republic
San Marino
San Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino , is a state situated on the Italian Peninsula on the eastern side of the Apennine Mountains. It is an enclave surrounded by Italy. Its size is just over with an estimated population of over 30,000. Its capital is the City of San Marino...
.