Srb (municipality)
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State : | Croatia | |
County : | Zadar | |
Height : | 428 m. i. J. | |
Residents : | 1,200 (approx.) | |
Telephone code : | (+385) 023 | |
Postal code : | 23 445 | |
License plate : | ZD |
Srb ( Serbian Cyrillic : Срб) is a small municipality and village in the historical region of Lika in the Zadar County in today's Croatia . It is part of the Gračac municipality . The first written mention of Srbs comes from the 9th century.
structure
The statute of a small municipality with extended self-government rights within the Gračac municipality was assigned to Srb on November 5, 2004 . The Una , which marks today's Croatian-Bosnian-Herzegovinian border, runs past the municipality . The place Srb itself is made up of the districts Upper (Gornji) and Lower (Donji) Srb.
The municipality of Srb manages the following localities:
- Begluci
- Brotnja
- Dabašnica
- Drenovac Osredački
- Dugopolje
- Kaldrma
- Kunovac
- Kupirovački
- Kupirovo
- Neteka
- Osredci
- Suvaja
- Srb
- Tiškovac Lički
- Zaklopac
Residents
According to estimates, the community has around 1,200 inhabitants. The largest part of the population is made up of around 90% Serbs and around 10% Croats , who were settled from Bosnia and Herzegovina . Before the displacement and flight in the course of Operation Oluja , over 5,200 Serbs lived in the community, which made up around 99% of the population. Today, in the course of Croatia's rapprochement with the EU, there are officially 1,200 inhabitants.
traffic
Begluci, Srb, Osredci, Kaldrma and Lički Tiškovac have a train station on the Una railway from Novi Grad to Knin . Lička Kaldrma was also the starting point of the narrow-gauge Steinbeisbahn to Prijedor and Jajce until 1975 .