Bribir is a village in

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, near the town of

Skradin Skradin ( it, Scardona; grc, Σκάρδων) is a small town in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia, with a population of 3,825 (2011 census). It is located near the Krka river and at the entrance to the Krka National Park, from Šibenik and ...

, southern

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Geography

The village is located at the foot of the hill of Bribir, in the Ravni Kotari geographical region. It is 12 km from Skradin.

History

In the Roman period, the town (''

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'') of ''Varvaria'' was created in the 1st century AD at the hill of Bribir ( hr, Bribirska glavica), which is now an archaeological site. Up until the Roman conquest, the

Liburnians The Liburnians or Liburni ( grc, Λιβυρνοὶ) were an ancient tribe inhabiting the district called Liburnia, a coastal region of the northeastern Adriatic between the rivers ''Arsia'' ( Raša) and ''Titius'' ( Krka) in what is now Croati ...

had inhabited the region, giving their name to the Roman province of

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mentioned ''Varvarini'' as one of 14 municipalities under the jurisdiction of ''Scardona'' (Skradin). In the Migration Period, after the fall of the Roman Empire, the region switched hands, being occupied by the Ostrogoths, Byzantines and then Croats. In '' De Administrando Imperio'' (950s), ''Berber'' is one of the counties part of Littoral Croatia. Bribir achieved its peak in the 13th and 14th century, during the period when the members of Šubić family ruled over

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as the

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. Šubićs were called ''nobiles, comites'' or ''principes Breberienses'' (Princes of Breber, hr, Knezovi bribirski). They built a large palace on the hill of Bribir, an ideal place to control the surrounding territory, overseeing all roads and approaches from the sea to the hinterland. The town was settled by Orthodox population in the 16th century. It was part of the war-time

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(1991–1995).

Buildings and monuments

*Remains of Roman and medieval buildings *Remains of Roman-era city-walls, with medieval defensive tower *Late antique rotunda (below SS Joachim and Ann) and Early Christian mausoleum with sarcophagi *Roman-era nymphaeum with mosaics *Early medieval cemetery Vratnice from ca. 9th century *Remains of Romanesque-style church from ca. 13th century *Remains of St Mary church and Franciscan monastery from ca. 1300 *Remains of Gothic-style church from ca. 14th century *Serbian Orthodox Church (Temple) of St. Joachim and Anne, built in 1574 *Remains of Ottoman-Venetian defensive tower

Demographic history

In the 2011 census, the village had 103 inhabitants.

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