• Source: Korenica

Korenica is a village in Lika, Croatia, located in the municipality of Plitvička Jezera, on the D1 road between Plitvice and Udbina. According to 2011 census it has 1,766 residents. It is the seat of the Plitvička Jezera Municipality.
In SFR Yugoslavia it was named Titova Korenica after Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito. The population consists of local ethnic Croats and Serbs, and there are also Croats from Bosnia who moved to Croatia after the Croatian War for Independence.
Korenica has one elementary school and one high school.




History


The 1712 census of Lika and Krbava records that 119 Vlach (i.e. Serb Orthodox Christian) families live in Korenica.
Until 1918, Korenica was part of the Austrian monarchy (Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Lika-Krbava County) after the compromise of 1867), in the Croatian Military Frontier, administered by the Kommando Ottotschaner Regiment N°II before 1881. A post-office was opened in 1862.




Demographics


1991 census:

Serbs 1,519 / 88.51%
Yugoslavs 84 / 4.89%
Croats 49 / 2.85%
Albanians 4 / 0.23%
Muslims 3 / 0.17%
Italians 2 / 0.11%
Hungarians 2 / 0.11%
Slovenians 1 / 0.05%
Montenegrins 1 / 0.05%
undeclared 15 / 0.87%
unknown 36 / 2.09%

NOTE: Population figures for the period 1857–1880 also include population figures for the following settlements: Drakulić Rijeka, Gradina Korenička, Homoljac, Jasikovac, Kalebovac, Kompolje Koreničko, Mihaljevac, Oravac, Ponor Korenički, Šeganovac, Vranovača and Vrpile.




Sights



Saint George's Catholic Church
Site of the Monument to the fallen partisan soldiers and civilian victims of fascism during the National Liberation War (WWII) from the Lika region, in Bijeli Potoci (destroyed around 2008)
Ruins of the Serbian Orthodox Church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel, destroyed in 1943




Notable people


Vasilije Đerić
Srđan Žakula




See also


Lika
Plitvice Lakes National Park
Plitvička Jezera




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Daftar kode pos di Kroasia
• Babak grup Liga Konferensi Eropa UEFA 2022–2023
• Babak kualifikasi dan play-off Liga Eropa UEFA 2018–2019 (Jalur Utama)
• Babak kualifikasi Liga Champions UEFA 2023–2024
• Babak kualifikasi Liga Konferensi UEFA 2024–2025 (Jalur Utama)
• Babak kualifikasi Liga Konferensi Eropa UEFA 2023–2024 (Jalur Juara)
• Korenica
• Meriton Korenica
• Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo
• Visar Korenica
• Korenica, Krivogaštani
• Amateur telescope making
• Cetingrad
• KF Korenica
• Bunić, Croatia
• Šalamunić