Žegar ( sr-cyr, Жегар) is a historical settlement in the mountainous
Bukovica Bukovica may refer to:
Croatia
*Bukovica, Dalmatia, a geographical region in Croatia
*Bukovica, Sisak-Moslavina County, a village near Topusko
* Bukovica, Brod-Posavina County, a village near Rešetari
* Nova Bukovica, a village and municipality ...
region, above the
Zrmanja
Zrmanja (, ) is a river in southern Lika and northern Dalmatia, Croatia. It is long and its basin covers an area of .
It was known to the ancient Romans as ''Tedanius''. The spring of Zrmanja is located in southern part of Lika under Postak - th ...
River, not far from the
Krupa Monastery. The settlement of Žegar was created next to the
cylindrical
A cylinder () has traditionally been a Solid geometry, three-dimensional solid, one of the most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes. In elementary geometry, it is considered a Prism (geometry), prism with a circle as its base.
A cylinder may ...
tower
A tower is a tall Nonbuilding structure, structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from guyed mast, masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting ...
from the
Venetian-Ottoman wars, after which it got its name.
The village itself lied above the Žegar Field, from where the population had long "
jumped into" (i.e.
guerilla warfare
Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians, which may include recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism ...
) the
Dinara
Dinara is a mountain range in the Dinaric Alps, located on the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. It has four major mountains or peaks, from north-west to south-east:
* Ilica or Ujilica (1,654 m)
* Sinjal or Dinara (1,831 m), epony ...
, the Venetian-Ottoman border for centuries. Today, the historical region includes the villages of
Kaštel Žegarski
Kaštel Žegarski () is a village in northern Dalmatia which lies within the administrative area of Obrovac in Zadar County, Croatia.
Location
It lies south-southeast of Obrovac, northeast of Ervenik and a short distance south of the Zrmanja R ...
,
Bogatnik,
Komazeci, and
Nadvoda, which are all administratively part of the
Obrovac Municipality. The inhabitants are predominantly ethnic
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 lan ...
.
Notable people
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Janko Mitrović
Janko Mitrović ( sr-cyr, Јанко Митровић; 1613–1659) was a ''harambaša'' (Ottoman for "bandit leader"), and the commander of the '' Morlach army'', in the service of the Republic of Venice, from 1648 until his death in 1659. He par ...
(1613–1659), Morlach army leader
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Stojan Janković
Stojan Janković Mitrović ( sr-cyr, Стојан Јанковић Митровић; also known as ''Stoian Jancovich Mitrovich'', ''Stoian Mitrovich'', ''Stoiano Mitrovich''; about 1636 – 23 August 1687) was the commander of the Morlachs (Ven ...
(1636–1687), Morlach army leader
*
Gerasim Zelić (1752–1828), Serbian Orthodox archimandrite and writer
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Vladimir Milić
Vladimir Milić (; born 23 October 1955) is a retired Serbian shot putter who represented SFR Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), known from 1945 to 1963 as the Federal Peopl ...
(1955-), retired Serbian shot putter
References
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Venetian period in the history of Croatia
Serb communities in Croatia
History of Dalmatia