Goršeti is a village in

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

, under the

Brod Moravice Brod Moravice is a municipality in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in western Croatia. The Lujzijana road passes through it. History Brod Moravice was first mentioned in 1260. The rural municipality was founded in the 14th century. Throughout hi ...

township, in

Primorje-Gorski Kotar County Primorje – Gorski Kotar County (, ) is a Counties of Croatia, county in western Croatia, most of it based in the historical and cultural region called Croatia proper and some of it in Istria, including the Bay of Kvarner, the surrounding Northe ...

Geography

It is south of the

Kupa The Kupa () or Kolpa ( or ; from in Roman Empire, Roman times; ) river, a right tributary of the Sava, forms a natural border between north-west Croatia and southeast Slovenia. It is long, with a length of serving as the border between Croati ...

, across from Vrt, west of Kavrani and

Laze pri Predgradu Laze pri Predgradu (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 4.) is a settlement on the left bank of the Kolpa River in the Municipality of ...

, east of Donji Šajn and Klepeće Selo, and southeast of Gornji Šehovac and Donja Lamana Draga.

History

Before the

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's Day was celebrated in Goršeti by residents from both sides of the river. Goršeti had been proposed as the location for the bridge in Blaževci, but Goršeti was given the choice between a bridge or a school, and they chose the school (now in ruins). The school was built with stones carried by workers on their shoulders from the Slovene side of the river. The road from

Štefanci Štefanci is a village in Croatia, under the Vrbovsko township, in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. As of its foundation on 3 March 2008, it belongs to the of Plemenitaš. Ecclesiastically, it is under the Plemenitaš parish. History On 28 June 177 ...

to Goršeti was built by the ''Šumarija Vrbovsko'' while felling ''

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'' for

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s and

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s. On 18 July 2023, the wind of a thunderstorm hit the 35/20 KV Kupjak substation, leaving Goršeti without power.

Demographics

References

{{reflist Populated places in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County