Prkos Lasinjski is a village in central

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, in the municipality of

Lasinja Lasinja is a village and a municipality in Karlovac County, Croatia. The prehistoric Lasinja culture is named after Lasinja. History Culture Demographics According to the 2011 census, the municipality of Lasinja has 1624 inhabitants, 86.58% ...

Karlovac County Karlovac County ( hr, Karlovačka županija) is a county in central Croatia, with the administrative center in Karlovac. The city of Karlovac is a fort from the times of the Military Frontier. It was built as a six-side star fort in the 16th cen ...

History

Prkos Lasinjski suffered heavy demographic losses in the

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with nearly 480 of its residents perishing. Out of those, 428 people were civilian victims of fascism and 23 were fallen partisans. During the WWII Genocide by the Croatian fascist

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regime, on 21 December 1941, hundreds of Serbs from the village were taken to the Brezje forest and massacred.

Culture

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, the village of Prkos Lasinjski has 52 inhabitants. This represents 36.62% of its pre-

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population according to the 1991 census. The 1991 censusIzdanje Državnog zavoda za statistiku RH: Narodnosni sastav stanovništva RH od 1880-1991. godine. recorded that 92.25% of the village population were ethnic

Serbs The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are the most numerous South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans in Southeastern Europe, who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history and language. The majority of Serbs live in their na ...

(131/142), 2.11% were ethnic

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(3/142), 2.82% were

Yugoslavs Yugoslavs or Yugoslavians ( Bosnian and Croatian: ''Jugoslaveni'', Serbian and Macedonian ''Jugosloveni''/Југословени; sl, Jugoslovani) is an identity that was originally designed to refer to a united South Slavic people. It has ...

(4/142), while 2.82% were of other ethnic origin (4/142).
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Sights

* Memorial to the victims of fascism and fallen partisans in WW2

Notable natives and residents

References

Populated places in Karlovac County Serb communities in Croatia {{Karlovac-geo-stub