Niko Koprivica (1889 in

Cavtat Cavtat (, it, Ragusa Vecchia, lit=Old Ragusa) is a village in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County of Croatia. It is on the Adriatic Sea coast south of Dubrovnik and is the centre of the Konavle municipality. History Antiquity The original city was ...

– 25 October 1944, in

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) was a politician of the

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who was mayor of

in the final days of the

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. He was a lawyer by profession. Koprivica was admitted to the

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in 1926. He was a member of the

Brethren of the Croatian Dragon The Society of Brethren of the Croatian Dragon ( Croatian: Družba "Braća Hrvatskoga Zmaja"; Latin: ''Societas "Fratres Draconis Croatici"'') is a Croatian historical and cultural society founded on November 16th, 1905. History The Society wa ...

and held the title of ''Dragon of Cavtat'' within the organization.Zmajske vijesti
, braca-hrvatskoga-zmaja.hr; accessed 12 August 2015. (pg. 47) Koprivica was selected by the city council to be mayor on 13 October 1944.Dubrovnik: Pokopani posmrtni ostatci nekadašnjeg gradonačelnika dr. Koprivice
, ''Glas Dalmacije'', glasdalmacije.hr; accessed 12 August 2015. He was killed by

Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: , or the National Liberation Army, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska (NOV), Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); mk, Народноослобод ...

as a collaborationist on 25 October 1944. He was interred on 10 October 2008 following a funeral mass at the Assumption Cathedral in Dubrovnik.

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1889 births 1944 deaths Croatian lawyers Croatian civilians killed in World War II Mayors of Dubrovnik People from Konavle Yugoslav lawyers {{Croatia-bio-stub Executed Croatian collaborators with Nazi Germany

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