Lokvičići

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Lokvičići
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Lokvičići (Croatia)
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Coordinates: 43 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 17 ° 3 ′ 36 ″  E
Basic data
State : Croatian flag Croatia
County : Split-Dalmatia County flag Split-Dalmatia
Area : 31.11  km²
Residents : 807 (2011)
Population density : 26 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code : (+385) 021
Postal code : 21263
License plate : IN THE
Structure and administration
(status: 2013, cf. )
Community type : local community
Mayor : Branko Knezović ( HDZ )
Website :

Lokvičići is a village and the seat of the municipality of the same name in central eastern Dalmatia in Croatia . It belongs politically to the Split-Dalmatia County .

location

The village consists of the settlements Lokvičići, Poboji, Kljenovac, Berinovac and Dolića Draga. It is located in the northwest of the historic Imotska Krajina . To the east of Lokvičići are several lakes, e.g. E.g .: Lokvičićko jezero (also Mamića jezero) and Galipovac . Only recently a new lake was created there naturally. The village is the seat of the Roman Catholic parish Krista Kralja (Christ the King), to which the churches Krist Kralj (Christ the King), Sv. Ivan (Saint John) and Sv. Ante (Saint Anthony) belong. An old Roman road runs through the village.

history

In pre-Roman times the area was inhabited by Illyrians . Under the Romans it belonged to the province of Dalmatia . After that it belonged to the Byzantine Empire . It later became the Principality of Croatia, which then became the Kingdom of Croatia under Tomislav and his successors. Lokvičići was then conquered by the Ottomans along with the entire Imotska krajina . It was later annexed with the rest of Dalmatia to the Republic of Venice . At the time of Napoleon Bonaparte all of Dalmatia was added to the French Illyrian provinces .

With the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the whole of Dalmatia became part of Austria as the Kingdom of Dalmatia . Later it came to the Austrian part of Austria-Hungary . After the First World War , most of Dalmatia became part of the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes . During the Second World War , it was under the control of fascist Croatia between 1941 and 1945 . Then it came with all of Croatia to socialist Yugoslavia . Lokvičići has been part of the independent Republic of Croatia since 1991 .

Community structure

The municipality of Lokvičići is divided into five districts. These in turn are divided into other smaller villages. Some of the ancestors of the inhabitants immigrated to today's Imotska Krajina from today's Herzegovina or the coastal area around 1700 to 1760. Each village was named after the corresponding surname. So there is the village of Zovko, Pezo or Smoljko. The surnames are passed on according to the previous occupation or "son of".

  • Berinovac: Bajic , Lasic , Medvidović, Papučić, Piplica, Zovko .
  • Kljenovac: Gadžo, Pezo, Bekavac, Budimlic, Gadžo, Juric, Kavelj, Kusačić, Pezo, Smoljko, Kilic , Mikulic , Strinić .
  • Lokvičići: Batinić, Blazevic , Juric, Kačunić, Kavelj, Mamić , Milović .
  • Dolića Draga Donja: Bekavac, Juric , Juric-Kačunić, Juricic, Malek, Pezo, Sicenica, Štrljić , Vidulin, Knezović.
  • Dolića Drage Gornja: Mustapić, Jogun, Sabljić

Personalities

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PREZIMENA ŽUPE LOKVIČIĆI U IMOTSKOJ KRAJINI
  2. ↑ https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/221014