Islam Latinski is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in
Croatia
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. It is one of two "Islam" villages, the other one being
Islam Grčki
Islam Grčki is a village within the town of Benkovac, in the Zadar County, Croatia.
Geography
Islam Grčki is located in the Ravni Kotari area, away from Benkovac and away from Zadar. The village is also only away from the Adriatic Sea but i ...
.
Islam Latinski has a predominantly
Croatian population.
Name
The original name of the village was ''Saddislam'', meaning "the wall of Islam" in Turkish which marked the final frontier of the Ottoman Empire.
In the 18th century, when the village split in two, the name changed to Islam Latinski. While ''Islam'' stayed from the original name, the adjective ( meaning "
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
") stands for the religion of the villagers -
"Latin" Catholicism. The other part of the split up village, Islam Grčki, got its name from the religious belief of its settlers -
"Greek" Orthodoxy.
A former
Italian name
A name in the Italian language consists of a given name ( it, nome), and a surname (); in most contexts, the given name is written before the surname. (In official documents, the Western surname may be written before the given name or names.)
Ital ...
was .
References
Populated places in Zadar County
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