Polača

Polača

coat of arms

Coordinates: 44 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ N , 15 ° 31 ′ 5 ″ E

Basic data

State :

Croatia

County :

Zadar

Height :

0 m. i. J.

Area :

28 km²

Residents :

1,464 (2011)

Population density :

52 inhabitants per km²

Telephone code :

(+385) 023

Postal code :

23 423

License plate :

ZD

Structure and administration
(status: 2013, cf. )

Community type :

local community

Mayor :

Viktor Prtenjača ( HDZ )

Website :

www.opcina-polaca.hr

Polača (it. Polazza ) is a place and a municipality in Croatia . The Polača municipality is located in the Zadar County near the town of Benkovac .

Community structure

The community consists of four places (Naselja):

Donja Jagodnja
Gornja Jagodnja
Kakma
Polača (Polazza)

Population development

According to the 2011 census, the municipality had 1,464 inhabitants, of which 88.49% were Croatians and 10.42% were Serbs . The place had 1,055 inhabitants in 2011. According to the 2001 census, the municipality of Polača had 1,411 inhabitants, of which 93.72% were Croatians. The main town Polača had 1,117 inhabitants in 2001

history

During the Croatian War in 1991, the listed Cosmas and Damian Church (Sv. Kuzma Damijan) , built in 1820, was damaged by the Serbian armed forces with explosives. The municipality was on the southern border of the de facto independent and Serbian dominated Republic of Serbian Krajina (Republika Srpska Krajina) founded in December 1991 until it was recaptured from Croatia in September 1995 by Operation Oluja ( Operation Storm ).

After the Croatian War, hundreds of new houses were built in Polača.

Individual evidence

^ Organization of the Zadar County
↑ ^a ^b ^c Population in the municipality of Polača according to the 2001 census on dzs.hr
↑ Population by ethnicity and city / municipality according to the 2001 census on dzs.hr , accessed on August 20, 2013
↑ Population by gender and age per location, 2001 census , on dzs.hr, accessed on August 20, 2013
^ The Wounded Church in Croatia: The Destruction of the Sacral Heritage of Croatia (1991–1995), 1996 online
↑ Mijo Gabrić, Vladimir Pavlinić, Jadranka Radloff: Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina: Sacral Institutions on Target, 1993, p. 66 Online
↑ OPERATION STORM (IT-03-73) ČERMAK & MARKAČ (PDF; 156 kB), p. 3
↑ Croatia: A Decade of Disappointment, p. 26 (PDF; 316 kB), Human Rights Watch , September 1, 2006

[1] Organization of the Zadar County

[dzs.hr_2011-2] Population in the municipality of Polača according to the 2001 census on dzs.hr

[dzs.hr_2001-3] Population by ethnicity and city / municipality according to the 2001 census on dzs.hr , accessed on August 20, 2013

[4] Population by gender and age per location, 2001 census , on dzs.hr, accessed on August 20, 2013

[5] The Wounded Church in Croatia: The Destruction of the Sacral Heritage of Croatia (1991–1995), 1996 online

[6] Mijo Gabrić, Vladimir Pavlinić, Jadranka Radloff: Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina: Sacral Institutions on Target, 1993, p. 66 Online

[7] OPERATION STORM (IT-03-73) ČERMAK & MARKAČ (PDF; 156 kB), p. 3

[8] Croatia: A Decade of Disappointment, p. 26 (PDF; 316 kB), Human Rights Watch , September 1, 2006