Modruš is a village in the mountainous part of 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 ...

, located south of Josipdol

Josipdol

Josipdol is a village and municipality in Karlovac County, Croatia. The municipality is part of Lika.-Geography:Josipdol is situated in the Ogulin-Plaški valley which together with Lika and Gorski Kotar forms Mountainous Croatia. The town is located at the crossroads of state roads D-23, which...

. The population is 197 (census 2001).

This now small village is historically noted as the seat of one of the medieval Catholic bishoprics, established in 1185 in Krbava

Krbava

Krbava is a region of mountainous Croatia. It can be considered either located east of Lika, or indeed as the eastern part of Lika. The town of Udbina is the central settlement of the Krbava karst field....

 and moved to Modruš in the 1460s. It later became the Roman Catholic Diocese of Senj-Modruš

Roman Catholic Diocese of Senj-Modruš

The diocese of Senj-Modruš was located in the historical Kingdom of Croatia, while it was in personal union with Kingdom of Hungary, and it was suffragan of Zagreb....

. One of the counties in the Kingdom of Croatia (in personal union with Hungary)

Kingdom of Croatia (medieval)

The Kingdom of Croatia , also known as the Kingdom of the Croats , was a medieval kingdom covering most of what is today Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Balkans.Established in 925, it ruled as a sovereign state for almost two centuries...

 was named Modruš-Rijeka County after it, too.