Dicmo is a municipality in

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in the

Split-Dalmatia County Split-Dalmatia County ( hr, Splitsko-dalmatinska županija ) is a central-southern Dalmatian county in Croatia. The administrative center is Split. The population of the county is 455,242 (2011). The land area is 14.106,40 km2. Split-Dalmat ...

. It has a population of 2,802, 98% of which are

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(2011 census).

Geography and history

Dicmo is a municipality made up of small villages located on the bottom of several foot-hills and edges of a stretched karst field, connected via the D1 road in the middle of the field, with

Sinj Sinj (; it, Signo; german: Zein) is a town in the continental part of Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. The town itself has a population of 11,478 and the population of the administrative municipality, which includes surrounding villages, is 24 ...

10 km to the north,

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7 km to the south and

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20 km to the south-west. Dicmo has been inhabited since the Ilyrian ages, but the first mentions of it and its name comes from the word "Decimanum", because it was the "tenth mile" on the ancient road between

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and Aequum. Throughout its history, Dicmo has been a transit stop for both commercial and military reasons, and like the rest of today's Croatia, often changed administrations, due to both the Ottoman and Morean wars. During the Austro-Hungarian rule, a railway between Sinj and Split, "Rera", whose route passed through Dicmo is built. World War II came up and Dicmo was once again a transit route, this time for Italians and Germans on their path to Split, which allowed Italians to build a watchtower next to the local train station, the ruins of which can be seen to this day. At the beginning, there was a mix of sides, but after 1943, residents joined the fight against Axis powers. Notable WW2 event in the municipality took place in the Butige hamlet where several Ustaše soldiers were intrcepted by Sinj partisans and eventually taken into Huso's pit (Husina jama), a mt. Kamešnica site where dozens of axis bodies were disposed. During the Yugoslav era, the area was under a former municipality of Sinj, during which the Rera railway was shut down, D1 road was built in the 1960s, while the electricity and the waterlines were installed in the 1970s and late 1980s, respectively. Many inhabitants of the municipality took part in the

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, after which Dicmo became a part of Croatia and a municipality in the Split-Dalmatia county, with the HDZ (Croatian Democrat Party) as a local leading political party. Most notable investment during the 21st century, during the ruling of the independent political party, is the municipality's Industrial Zone, with over 500 people from the nearby region employed in it.

Education

Osnovna škola Ante Starčevića Dicmo (Ante Starčević elementary school)

Sports

MNK Spartak (Futsal Club Spartak)

Notable people

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, former Chicago mayor (parents were immigrants from Krušvar) *

Ratko Rudić Ratko Rudić (born 7 June 1948 in Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a retired Croatian water polo coach and a former water polo player. , he has won 38 medals as a coach at major events, making him the most successful water polo coach in h ...

, waterpolo coach *

Ivan Grubišić Ivan Grubišić (20 June 1936 – 19 March 2017) was a Croatian Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, and politician. He served in the Croatian Parliament from 2011 to 2015. Early life and education Ivan Grubišić was born in Dicmo in a poor family ...

, Catholic priest, politician, sociologist * Bruno Silić, waterpolo coach * Inoslav Bešker, journalist

References

Populated places in Split-Dalmatia County Municipalities of Croatia {{SplitDalmatia-geo-stub