Metajna
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| State : |
 Croatia
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| County : |
 Lika-Senj
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| Island : | Pag | ||
| Height : | 15 m. i. J. | ||
| Residents : | 215 (2011) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+385) 053 | ||
| Postal code : | 53 296 | ||
| License plate : | GS | ||
| Boat registration : | NV | ||
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| Community type : | Village | ||
| Mayor : | Jure Datković ( HDZ ) | ||
| Postal address : | Metajna 104, 53296 Zubovići 53 296 Metajna |
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| Patron saint : | St. Mary | ||
 Metajna view |
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Metajna is a village on the island of Pag , which lies between Rijeka and Zadar in the Croatian Adriatic Sea . The village has 215 inhabitants and belongs to the Lika-Senj County . The people of the village live from fishing, sheep breeding, viticulture and, since the 1980s, increasingly from tourism.
The beach Ručica in Metajna belongs to the place , which is characterized by its sheltered location in a bay opposite the town of Pag .
On June 25, 1941, the fascist Ustasa regime established the Metajna concentration camp in Metajna , in which thousands of Jews, Serbs and dissident Croatians perished. Later a second camp - for women and children - was added in the nearby Buch Slana , the Slana concentration camp . The victims were often brutally killed and then thrown into pits or into the sea. The two camps were dissolved after the island was handed over to Italian forces in late August 1941. Most of the survivors were transported to the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia .
