Pirovac (Slosella in italian) is a coastal municipality and village in
Croatia, 26 km away from the city of
Å ibenik.
Demographics
The Pirovac municipality has a total of 1,930 inhabitants, in the following
settlements:
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Kašić, population 126
* Pirovac, population 1,704
*
PutiÄanje, population 100
93% of the population are
Croats.
History
The first historical mention of Pirovac was in 1298, under the name "Zlosela". At that time, the village belonged to noblemen from
Bribir — the
Šubić family, and later it became the property of the Šibenik Diocese and noblemen from Šibenik.
The settlement itself was founded in the 15th century by refugees who fled from the
Turks. Nevertheless, this area was inhabited many centuries earlier, as shown by remnants of
Roman settlements found on the islet of Sveti Stjepan (St. Stephen). Many other historical monuments tell us about the gradual settlement and development of this place. The remnants of a
Roman villa in Ivinj date back to the 1st AD. The site was proclaimed a cultural good in 2012 and awarded the status of a protected cultural monument.
[Ivinj Archeological Site, http://www.aquarius-online.com/en/amenities/ivinj-archeol-site/ ]
The defence wall, erected around 1505 by Petar Draganić, has been partly preserved in the village. The 1506
parish church of St. George was restored in
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
style in the 18th century. The graveyard chapel of the Draganić-VranÄić family features a Gothic
sarcophagus
A sarcophagus (plural sarcophagi or sarcophaguses) is a box-like funeral receptacle for a corpse, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried. The word ''sarcophagus'' comes from the Greek ...
with a relief made in 1447 by Andrija BudÄić from Å ibenik and Lorenzo Pincino from
Venice
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, according to the sketches by
Giorgio da Sebenico (George the Dalmatian). Roman artifacts have been found on the islet of Sveti Stjepan in front of the village; here also are the ruins of a Franciscan monastery (from 1511), which was abandoned in 1807.
By the mid-17th century, there were 25 houses in the village. The number of inhabitants rose from 273 in 1709 to 1970 in 1931. The first school was opened in 1885. The settlement's name was changed from Zlosela to Pirovac in 1921.
The village of KaÅ¡ić BanjevaÄki in the municipality was home to a Partisan monument, which was destroyed during the
Croatian War of Independence
The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY)—and the Serb-controlled Yugosl ...
. In 2008, the village replaced the previous monument with a memorial chapel to the dead from both the
Second World War and the War of Independence.
References
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Municipalities of Croatia
Populated places in Å ibenik-Knin County
Populated coastal places in Croatia