Lipice

Lipice

Coordinates: 45 ° 0 ′ 33 ″ N , 15 ° 16 ′ 4 ″ E

Basic data

State :

Croatia

County :

Lika-Senj

Height :

617 m. i. J.

Area :

15.10 km²

Residents :

254 (2001)

Population density :

17 inhabitants per km²

Telephone code :

(+385) 053

Postal code :

53 261

License plate :

GS

Structure and administration
(status: 2009, cf. )

Community type :

Village

Mayor :

Ivica Mesić (independent)

Others

Patron saint :

Saint John

Lipice ( German / Austrian. Lippitz is) a village in the County of Lika-Senj , Croatia with 254 inhabitants. It was first mentioned in writing in 1638. The village belongs to the large municipality of Brinje .

geography

Lipice is located in the north of the agricultural Lika . Lipice is located in the north-eastern part of the Brinje district . The municipality borders on the villages of Glibodol , Križpolje , Letinac and Stajnica . The settlement type is a scattered settlement , which in turn consists of the following eleven hamlets (Bićanić, Brbot, Mesić, Murat, Pernar, Perković, Trtanj, Smolčić, Vidaković, Vučetić, Vuković). The village center is made up of the church and the parish hall (post office and village shop). In the vicinity of Lipice the Mala Kapela begins to extend a karst mountain range. The following mountain peaks protrude: (Oštri vrh 1164 m / nv and Kameniti vrh 1191 m / nv).

history

Iapods

It is very likely that the area around Lipice was inhabited as early as the Iron Age or the Early Bronze Age (10th to 8th centuries BC). Finds between the hamlets of Vuković and Pernar suggest this. Pieces of bronze and pottery shards were found in a tholos . That is why a necropolis is suspected there. No further excavations have taken place in this area so far. The findings so far suggest that Iapods have settled and inhabited this area.

Romans

In Roman times , at the time of Emperor Diocletian (284-305), the municipality of Lipice belonged to the small Roman province of Liburnia. After the division of the Roman Empire in 395, Liburnia remained with the Western Roman Empire.

Demographics

According to the 2001 census, the municipality has 254 inhabitants.

Year of the census	Residents
1857	625
1869	815
1880	846
1890	870
1900	982
1910	1,051
1921	972
1948	1,025
1953	985
1961	898
1971	835
1981	555
1991	417
2001	254

Attractions

Lipice (September 2007)

The Church of St. John the Baptist in Lipice was built in 1878 after Lipice was recognized as an independent Roman Catholic parish in 1871. The holiday of the village is St. John's Day on June 24th, which is due to John the Baptist .