Brišnik
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Brišnik Бришник |
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| State : | Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
| Entity : | Federation of BiH | ||
| Canton : | 10 | ||
| Municipality : | Tomislavgrad | ||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 38 ' N , 17 ° 14' E | ||
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Brišnik ( Cyrillic Бришник ) is a place southwest of the city of Tomislavgrad in the western part of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The village belongs to the municipality of Tomislavgrad in Herzegovina .
The approximately 1000 inhabitants are 99% Catholic Croats.
geography
The village itself consists of two districts, Donji Brišnik and the higher part Gornji Brišnik . The difference in altitude between these two districts is around 50-100 meters. One of the highest mountains of Tomislavgrad , the Midena , extends over Brišnik and the places Mrkodol and Bukovica .
The name Brišnik comes from the word Briščić or Brig , which means "small hill" or "little hill" in the ikavic dialect of Serbo-Croatian and indicates the geographical structure of this village.
history
The name Brišnik appears for the first time in a document from the Bishop of Makarska , fra Bartula Kačić Žarković, in 1630. This document indicates that in Brišnik at that time there was one of the two headquarters of the Tomislavgrad ecclesiastical parishes , the second was in the village of Lipa . This document also shows that there were 470 confirmations and 10 conversions in Brišnik that year .
Personalities
- Mijat Tomić (* 1610 in Gornji Brišnik), Croatian Hajduk