Starigrad is a municipality in the

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Name

Its Italian name is ''Ortopula''.

History

The Roman settlement of Argyruntum was on a , now silted, island in the area east of the port. Emperor

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erected protective walls and towers. Findings from about four hundred tombs are an evidence of great prosperity and trade relations in the Mediterranean. The oldest relic in the vicinity of Starigrad is the St. George Chapel in Rovanjska and St. Peter's Chapel in Starigrad from the ninth or tenth century. Mediaeval traces are the castles "Večka kula" (''old names were: Vega, Vegium (not to be confused with Vegium (

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).) and Wezuliae''), which was the mediaeval Harbormasters' office, on a peninsula east of Starigrad and the "Paklarić" on the prehistoric ruins of the entrance to the Velika Paklenica.

Population

In 2021, the municipality had 1,697 residents in the following 3 settlements: * Seline, population 414 *Starigrad, population 1051 * Tribanj, population 232 According to the 2011 census, 96% of the population were

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Climate

For the period 1992–2019, the highest temperature recorded at the local weather station was , on 10 August 2017. The coldest temperature was , on 27 December 1996.

Sports

The local chapter of the HPS is ''HPD "Paklenica"'', which had 14 members in 1936 under the don Ante Adžija presidency. That year, a path from Anića Kuk to the entrance of Manita Peć was planned, along with the construction of a water pipeline to Starigrad. Membership rose to 20 in 1937, staying the same in 1938, the year the subterranean path in Manita Peć and the path to the cave were completed. The ''HPD "Gromovača"'' in Starigrad was liquidated on 16 November 1935.

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