Bribir is a village in the

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. It is located near

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and

Novi Vinodolski Novi Vinodolski (, often also called Novi or ''Novi del Vinodol'' o ''Novi in Valdivino'' in Italian) is a town on the Adriatic Sea coast in Croatia, located south of Crikvenica, Selce and Bribir and north of Senj. The population of Novi is 3,9 ...

, in a valley 5 km from the

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. It has a population of 1,695 (census 2011) and the post code HR-51253. It is the seat of the Vinodol Municipality.

General

The remains of the old walls and the city tower are reminiscent of the time of the princes of Frankopan, whose four centuries of rule left deep spiritual and material traces in Vinodol. Bribir experienced its greatest flourishing during the reign of Prince Bernardin Frankopan, who fortified the castle and the city walls. When the Bribir estate was abolished in 1848, the municipal government demolished the Vela and Mala gates and the castle, and a school was built in its place. Thus ended the long and glorious history of the Bribir fortress in the ruins. The only remnant of the Bribir fort is a rectangular tower dating from 1302 and part of the walls. From the hill on which the old town is situated there is a view of the valley and Novi Vinodolski. Renaissance works of art in the church of St. Peter and Paul testify to the high level of cultural and civilizational reach of medieval Bribir and its strong ties with Europe.

Demographics

In 1895, the ''obćina'' of Bribir (court at Bribir), with an area of , belonged to the ''kotar'' of Novi (Novi court but Selce

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) in the Modruš-Rieka ''županija'' (

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court and financial board). There were 786 houses, with a population of 4183 (the highest in Novi kotar). Its 15 villages and 9 hamlet were encompassed for taxation purposes by a single ''porezna obćina'', under the Bakar office.

Infrastructure

An old road used to run from Vitunj over Lumbarda mountain through Bjelsko (by Potok Musulinski) and Gvozd to Drežnica, and from there to Ledenica and Bribir.

Notable People

* Anton Tus (1931-2023) - was a retired Croatian general who served and was the first Chief of Staff of the Croatian Armed Forces from 1991 to 1992 during the Croatian War of Independence. * Mihovil Kombol - Croatian literary historian * Martin Davorin Krmpotić - Croatian priest, revivalist, missionary, essayist, served as chaplain in Bribir * Josip Pančić (also Josif Pančić) - Croatian and Serbian botanist and professor of natural sciences, born and spent his childhood in Bribir
Tomo Strizić
- Croatian partisan killed during World War II, posthumously named a National Hero of Yugoslavia

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