- Source: Ervenik
Ervenik (Serbian Cyrillic: Ервеник) is a village and municipality in Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia. There were 826 inhabitants (municipality) in 2021, and 97.19% of the population were Serbs, making Ervenik the municipality with the highest percentage of Serbs in Croatia. Population of the village was 243.
Culture and monuments
There are several churches in the village:
Catholic Church of St. Michael the Archangel (first mentioned in 1402).
Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas from 1669.
Orthodox Church of St. Elijah from 1710 (Oton).
Also, in the vicinity of Mokro Polje (Ervenik), there are remains of the aristocratic Kegalj fort (Kegaljgrad), which was first mentioned in documents in 1433.
Settlements
The municipality of Ervenik includes 5 settlements:
Ervenik
Mokro Polje
Oton
Pađene
Radučić
= Ervenik Municipality
=Note: Formed from part of the pre-war municipality of Knin.
= Ervenik (village)
=Note: From 1857 until 1961 the village of Ervenik was listed as two separate inhabited places, Donji Ervenik and Gornji Ervenik. The population from those years is the sum of the two villages.
Notable people
Ljubomir Travica