Nova Sela is a village between

Metković Metković () is a town in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County of Croatia, located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the river Neretva and on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. Demographics The total population of the city municipal ...

and

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in the

Kula Norinska Kula Norinska is a village and a municipality in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County in southeastern Croatia. Geography The municipality is situated on the northern border of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County. It borders the City of Ploče, the City of Op ...

municipality.

History

The locality contains stećci from the 15th century. Emigrants from

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lead by serdar Mate Bebić settled in Nova Sela after the

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lost the village.

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burnt down the original parish church in 1943 during

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. After the conflict, Nova Sela was in the Borovci parish. A renovated building served as the church of the undivided parish. Today's Nova Sela

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was established on 26 September 1957.

Architecture

Church of Saint Anthony

The church is located in the nearby Kulina. A

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used to be there since at least 1774, when a marriage is recorded. It was tore down in 1830 and today's church was built. Its dimensions are 15x6 metres. The

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is squared and there's a sixteen-pointed rosette on the front. The belfry has three bells. A new

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was placed in 1965 when the

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was Veselko Leutić. Thorough renewals happened in 1988 when the bishop was Dušan Brečić. A concrete platform was also built with a balcony for the bells. During the time of bishop Dušan Brečić in the late 1990s, it was removed because it had been considered unpleasant. A new roof was built in September 2003 during the time of bishop Ljubo Pavić, and the belfry was repaired. Crkva Nova Sela

Demographics

References

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{{Settlements in the Kula Norinska municipality Populated places in Dubrovnik-Neretva County