Oršić Family
The Oršić family (Orssich) is an old Croats, Croatian nobility, noble family, thought, by oral tradition, to have descended from the Croatian noble clan of Lapčan family, Lapčan and Karinjan, remarkable in the Croatia in personal union with Hungary, Kingdom of Croatia in personal union with Hungary and within the Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg), Habsburg Monarchy respectively, whose notable members were politicians, senior Officer (armed forces), military officers, župans or other state officials, as well as cultural workers and patrons. Family history The first written mention of the Oršić family name appeared in a document from Knin in 1420. The members of the family were mentioned to have originated from the area of Unac River, a tributary of Una (Sava), Una, in the medieval Croatian Pset County, county of Pset. In another document from 1449, they are quoted as "Oršićs from Udrinić" (present-day Drinić, a village in the Bosanski Petrovac Municipality, western B ...
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