Sveti Grgur (, it, San Gregorio; lit. ''Saint Gregory'') is an uninhabited island in
Croatia
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, on the
Adriatic Sea
The Adriatic Sea () is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula. The Adriatic is the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea, extending from the Strait of Otranto (where it connects to the Ionian Sea) to th ...
between
Rab
Rab âːb( dlm, Arba, la, Arba, it, Arbe, german: Arbey) is an island in the northern Dalmatia region in Croatia, located just off the northern Croatian coast in the Adriatic Sea.
The island is long, has an area of and 9,328 inhabitants (2 ...
and
Krk. The island was the site of a women's prison in
SFR Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It emerged in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, with the breakup of Yu ...
, in tandem with nearby
Goli Otok which served the same purpose for men, from 1948 to 1988.
See also
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Goli otok
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Persecution of Danube Swabians
Persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another individual or group. The most common forms are religious persecution, racism, and political persecution, though there is naturally some overlap between these terms ...
Literature
*Milutin Popović, ''Sećanja na logor Sveti Grgur''. Symix graphics, Beograd, 1991.
*Ženi Lebl, ''LJUBIČICA BELA''-''White Violete'' with the subtitle "Two and half years in the Yugoslav Gulag for women", Belgrade, 2009
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Islands of Croatia
Islands of the Adriatic Sea
Defunct prisons in Croatia
Political repression in Communist Yugoslavia
Prisons in Yugoslavia
Uninhabited islands of Croatia
Landforms of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County