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Ravna Gora, Croatia
Ravna Gora is a village and a municipality in western Croatia, located between Delnice and Vrbovsko in the mountainous region of Gorski Kotar. History The volunteer fire department DVD Ravna Gora was founded in 1888, and is today part of the ''VZ općine Ravna Gora''. The current commander of both the ''VZ'' and the ''DVD'' as of 2013 is Dražen Krepenc. The local chapter of the HPS is ''HPD "Bjelolasica"'', which had 23 members in 1936 under the Ivan Marković presidency. At the time, it had a ski section. Membership fell to 21 in 1937. Membership fell to 15 in 1938, and the ski section became inactive. The next season, the entire chapter was inactive. WWII Along with Mrkopalj and Vrbovsko, Ravna Gora was one of the only places in Gorski Kotar that already had Ustaše when Ante Pavelić arrived in 1941. In July, when the deportations of Serbs to accommodate the Slovenes of the population exchange commenced, the ''logornik'' in Vrbovsko informed his superiors that all the ...
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Counties Of Croatia
The counties of Croatia () are the first-level administrative divisions of Croatia, administrative subdivisions of the Croatia, Republic of Croatia. Since they were re-established in 1992, Croatia has been divided into 20 county, counties and the capital city of Zagreb, which has the authority and legal status of both a county and a list of cities and towns in Croatia, city (separate from the surrounding Zagreb County). As of 2015, the counties are subdivided into 128 cities and 428 (mostly rural) Municipalities of Croatia, municipalities. The divisions have changed over time since the Kingdom of Croatia (925–1102), medieval Croatian state. They reflected territorial losses and expansions; changes in the political status of Dalmatia, Republic of Ragusa, Dubrovnik and Istria; and political circumstances, including the Croatia in personal union with Hungary, personal union and subsequent development of relations between the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia and the Kingdom of Hungar ...
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Serbs
The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Southeastern Europe who share a common Serbian Cultural heritage, ancestry, Culture of Serbia, culture, History of Serbia, history, and Serbian language, language. They primarily live in Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro as well as in North Macedonia, Slovenia, Germany and Austria. They also constitute a significant diaspora with several communities across Europe, the Americas and Oceania. The Serbs share many cultural traits with the rest of the peoples of Southeast Europe. They are predominantly Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox Christians by religion. The Serbian language, Serbian language (a standardized version of Serbo-Croatian) is official in Serbia, co-official in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is spoken by the plurality in Montenegro. Ethnology The identity of Serbs is rooted in Eastern Orthodoxy and traditions. In the 19th century, the ...
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Bosiljevo
Bosiljevo is a village and municipality in Karlovac County, Croatia. It is located in the Gorski Kotar region, 25 km south-west from Karlovac, on the highways A1 and A6 leading to Zagreb, Rijeka and Split. Settlements The total population of the municipality is 1,284, in the following forty-three settlements (villages and hamlets): * Beč, population 9 * Bitorajci, population 16 * Bosanci, population 40 * Bosiljevo, population 63 * Dani, population 8 * Dugače, population 14 * Fratrovci, population 31 * Fučkovac, population 23 * Glavica, population 34 * Grabrk, population 117 * Hrsina, population 41 * Jančani, population 26 * Johi, population 33 * Kasuni, population 58 * Korenić Brdo, population 2 * Kraljevo Selo, population 2 * Krč Bosiljevski, population 27 * Laslavići, population 1 * Lipošćaki, population 14 * Lisičina Gorica, population 5 * Malik, population 24 * Mateše, population 59 * Milani, population 10 * Novo Selo Bosiljevsko, p ...
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Rijeka
Rijeka (; Fiume ([ˈfjuːme]) in Italian and in Fiuman dialect, Fiuman Venetian) is the principal seaport and the List of cities and towns in Croatia, third-largest city in Croatia. It is located in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and in 2021 had a population of 107,964 inhabitants. Historically, because of its strategic position and Port of Rijeka, its excellent deep-water port, the city was fiercely contested, especially between the Holy Roman Empire, Venice, Italy and Yugoslavia, changing rulers and demographics many times over centuries. According to the Demographics of Croatia, 2011 census data, 85% of its citizens are Croats, along with small numbers of Serbs of Croatia, Serbs, Bosniaks of Croatia, Bosniaks and Italians of Croatia, Italians. Rijeka is the main city and county seat of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. The city's economy largely depends on shipbuilding (shipyards "3. Maj" and "Viktor Lenac Shipyard") and maritime ...
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Glaze (ice)
Glaze or glaze ice, also called glazed frost or verglas, is a smooth, transparent and homogeneous ice coating occurring when freezing rain or drizzle hits a surface. It is similar in appearance to clear ice, which forms from supercooled water droplets. It is a relatively common occurrence in temperate climates in the winter when precipitation forms in warm air aloft and falls into below-freezing temperature at the surface. Effects When the freezing rain or drizzle is light and not prolonged, the ice formed is thin. It usually causes only minor damage, relieving trees of their dead branches, etc. When large quantities accumulate, however, it is one of the most dangerous types of winter hazard. When the ice layer exceeds , tree limbs with branches heavily coated in ice can break off under the enormous weight and fall onto power lines. Windy conditions, when present, will exacerbate the damage. Power lines coated with ice become extremely heavy, causing support poles, insulators ...
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Freezing Rain
Freezing rain is rain maintained at temperatures below melting point, freezing by the ambient air mass that causes freezing on contact with surfaces. Unlike rain and snow mixed, a mixture of rain and snow or ice pellets, freezing rain is made entirely of liquid droplets. The raindrops become supercooling, supercooled while passing through a sub-freezing layer of air hundreds of meters above the ground, and then freeze upon impact with any surface they encounter, including the ground, trees, electrical wires, aircraft, and automobiles. The resulting ice, called glaze (ice), glaze ice, can accumulate to a thickness of several centimeters and cover all exposed surfaces. The METAR code for freezing rain is FZRA. A storm that produces a significant thickness of glaze ice from freezing rain is often referred to as an ice storm. Although these storms are not particularly violent, freezing rain is notorious for causing travel problems on roadways, breaking tree limbs, and downing power l ...
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Geostrophic Wind
In atmospheric science, geostrophic flow () is the theoretical wind that would result from an exact balance between the Coriolis force and the pressure gradient force. This condition is called '' geostrophic equilibrium'' or ''geostrophic balance'' (also known as ''geostrophy''). The geostrophic wind is directed parallel to isobars (lines of constant pressure at a given height). This balance seldom holds exactly in nature. The true wind almost always differs from the geostrophic wind due to other forces such as friction from the ground. Thus, the actual wind would equal the geostrophic wind only if there were no friction (e.g. above the atmospheric boundary layer) and the isobars were perfectly straight. Despite this, much of the atmosphere outside the tropics is close to geostrophic flow much of the time and it is a valuable first approximation. Geostrophic flow in air or water is a zero-frequency inertial wave. Origin A useful heuristic is to imagine air starting from res ...
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2014 Dinaric Ice Storm
The 2014 Dinaric ice storm, better known as the 2014 Slovenia ice storm or 2014 Croatia ice storm, was a severe ice storm ( SPIA 5) that struck the Northwest Dinaric Alps between 31 January and 2 February 2014. The freezing rain led to glazing of a vast region with about of ice, locally above . It wrecked roofs, power lines an forests, causing power loss for hundreds of thousands. Initially, Cyclone Ilija (2014) was believed to be the cause. But later investigation showed S and SW geostrophic wind dominated at the time. The population affected by electricity loss included about 250,000 people in Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ... and about 14,000 households households in Gorski Kotar, or about 80% of its population. Without electricity, water supply pumps s ...
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Lička Jesenica
Lička Jesenica is a settlement in the Lika region of Croatia, in the municipality of Saborsko, Karlovac County. History In 1933, Chetnik formations were organised on the territory of Srpske Moravice, Gomirje and Lička Jesenica. They had a minor political influence until 1941 when a large number of them were killed in the first wave of liquidations. WWII In May 1941, the Ustaša government began targeting known and suspected JRZ members with arrests. The prominent JRZ members in Lička Jesenica at the time were Dušan Vukelić, Miljenko Milaković, Ilija Žutić and Stanislav Nasadil. On 28 May in the afternoon, the first mass arrests were made by the Ustaše in Plaški, including of a teacher from Lička Jesenica. Initially, they were held in the jail in Plaški, then transferred to the Ogulin castle. There, they were held for about 20 days, forced to sing "Sprem'te se, sprem'te četnici" (a Chetnik anthem) while sweeping the streets by their captors. Around 6 June, late ...
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Gomirje
Gomirje is a settlement in north-western Croatia, situated at the far east of the mountainous region of Gorski kotar in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. It is part of the Vrbovsko municipality. The population is 343 (as of the 2011 census). History The remains of an old fortification exist on the Stražnik hill. On 17 September 1602, the ''županijski sudac'' Bernardo Severšić issued from Bosiljevo a judgement on a case between the Frankapan family members Juraj, Nikola and Vuk on the one hand ant the Vlachs of Gomirje on the other. A brick fortification was built in Gomirje itself by the Sečen family for defence against the Turks. Documents relating to this were said to have been preserved in the castles of Bosiljevo and Severin. Kingdom of Yugoslavia In 1933, Chetnik formations were organised on the territory of Srpske Moravice, Gomirje and Lička Jesenica. They had a minor political influence until 1941 when a large number of them were killed in the first wave ...
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Moravice, Croatia
Moravice (formerly known as Komorske Moravice until 1919, thereafter as Srpske Moravice until 1991) ( sr-Cyrl, Моравице) is a settlement in north-western Croatia, situated at the far east of the mountainous region of Gorski kotar in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. It is part of the Vrbovsko municipality. The population is 664 (as of the 2011 census). As of its foundation on 3 March 2008, it is the seat of a encompassing Radigojna, Tomići, Bujevci, Vukelići, Nikšići, Dokmanovići, Jakšići, Dragovići, Topolovica, Međedi, Vučinići, Komlenići, Radoševići, Tići, Mlinari, Žakule, Carevići, Gornji Vukšići, Donji Vukšići, Matići, Donji Vučkovići, Gornji Vučkovići and Petrovići. History Moravice was first mentioned on 22 February 1481 in a document freeing the citizens of Grič from tariffs in Moravice and elsewhere. The Serbs were settled in Moravice 1585 on the proposal general of Karlovac Josip Turn. The original name of the ...
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Cheta (armed Group)
Cheta may refer to: * Cheta (armed group), a type of armed band of the Ottoman Balkans * Chaeta, part of some invertebrates' anatomy * Cheta (woreda), an administrative division of Ethiopia * Cheta, SBS Nagar, a village in India * Cheta language, a language of Brazil * Cheta Emba (born 1993), American rugby player * Cheta Ozougwu (born 1988), American football player * "Cheta", a 2016 song by Ada Ehi See also * Ceta (other) * Cheeta * Chita (other) * Chetan (other) * Kheta (other) * Chetniks (other) {{Disambiguation ...
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