Klobuk is a
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
in the municipality of
Ljubuški
Ljubuški is a city in the West Herzegovina Canton, a federal unit of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Kravica (waterfall), Kravica cascades lie within the city, near the settlement of Studenci, ...
,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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, located on the western outskirts of the municipality. It partially lays alongside a section of the regional road M-6 (Grude - Ljubuški - Čapljina - Metković), with road connections to the famous Marian pilgrimage in Medjugorje and the nearest border crossing with Croatia that's some 5 km away.
Klobuk has got its name from the Klobuk hill (468m), that's central to the place, whose specific shape resembles a type of hat. (Klobuk ''eng.'' hat)
Klobuk consists of 12 hamlets that are quite scattered around - Kapel Mala, Pržine, Šiljevište, Borajna, Zastražnica, Poljane, Vlake, Čuljkova Njiva, Dabranja, Brdo, Osoje and Drače.
Klobuk, namely its hamlet Šiljevište, has become increasingly popular amongst Catholic pilgrims who flock here to visit the birth place of a God's Servant, the Venerable Petar Barbaric, to worship him and pray for his intercession at this sanctuary that consists of Petar's
refurbished old house where he grew up, and a recently blessed chapel serving as a place for gathering and worship.
History
Klobuk was first mentioned in 1585 in an
Ottoman list of villages.
Population
According to the 2013 Census, the total population of Klobuk was 1.232, gravitating mostly towards Ljubuški and nearby municipalities, including Vrgorac in neighbouring Croatia.
Notable people
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Andrija Artuković, lawyer, politician, ultranationalist, member of the
Ustasha movement. Convicted WWII Nazi war criminal and responsible for the execution of at least 100,000 innocent people in concentration camps.
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Milan Artuković, former Managing Director of Franck Ltd. ''(d.o.o.)'', Zagreb, Croatia.
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Petar Barbarić (1874-1897), a charismatic Catholic priest who lived a life of heroic virtue, proclaimed venerable and expected to be beatified by the Pope Francis.
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Nevenko Barbarić, former mayor of Ljubuški and a representative of Croatian Diaspora in Croatian Parliament ''(Sabor)''.
* , former vice-president of Croatian Parliament ''(Sabor)'' and former Vice-Chair of HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union).
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Marija Pejčinović Burić
Marija Pejčinović Burić (; born 9 April 1963) is a Croatian politician of the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union party who served as Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (Croatia), Minister of Foreign and European Affairs and First Depu ...
, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign & European Affairs of Croatia.
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Dubravko Grgić, founder of Euroherc Osiguranje Plc. ''(d.d.)'' and Agram Plc. insurance companies, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia
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Željko Musa, a handball player.
* (1848-1888), a Catholic priest, given the title Duke ''(Vojvoda)'' of Herzegovina by Prince Nikola of Montenegro for leading the uprising against the Ottomans in 1875 and 1878.
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Leo Petrović, a Franciscan and a historian.
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Hrvoje Pezić, an entrepreneur with investments in property development, insurance and hospitality (Zagreb City Hotels ''d.o.o.'' - Double Tree, Canopy and Garden Inn Hilton Hotels), Zagreb, Croatia.
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Milenko and Ivan Rašić, "rags-to-richess" entrepreneurial brothers with a multi-million dollar business in poultry industry (Rasic Hnos. S.A), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
* (1909-1964), writer and author.
*
Božo Skoko, a university professor and media personality, Zagreb, Croatia.
References
Further reading
* Knjiga: "Nacionalni sastav stanovništva - Rezultati za Republiku po opštinama i naseljenim mjestima 1991.", statistički bilten br. 234, Izdanje Državnog zavoda za statistiku Republike Bosne i Hercegovine, Sarajevo.
*https://web.archive.org/web/20131005002409/http://www.fzs.ba/Podaci/nacion%20po%20mjesnim.pdf
* Wikipedia
*https://books.google.com/books?id=rqjLgtYDKQ0C&q=%22Ivan+Music%22+against+Turks
*https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=5647599
*http://www.poslovni.hr/hrvatska/foto-u-zagrebu-u-sljedece-dvije-godine-otvaraju-se-canopy-i-garden-inn-by-hilton-335393
*http://www.dalmacijanews.hr/clanak/rm9j-prirodne-ljepote-klobuka-i-rijeke-trebizat#/clanak/rm9j-prirodne-ljepote-klobuka-i-rijeke-trebizat
External links
*http://klobuk.info/
Populated places in Ljubuški
Villages in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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