Nova Kršlja 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 ...

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 ...

History

In the

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, the

gendarmerie A gendarmerie () is a paramilitary or military force with law enforcement duties among the civilian population. The term ''gendarme'' () is derived from the medieval French expression ', which translates to " men-at-arms" (). In France and so ...

of the Drežnik Grad ''općina'' was not in Drežnik but in Nova Kršlja, farther away from Drežnik than the gendarmerie of the Rakovica ''općina''. This was to ease the monitoring of peripheral areas like Kordunski Ljeskovac and Mašvina. In 1941, shortly after the establishment of the NDH, the forces disarmed the gendarmerie of Nova Kršlja on their own initiative, replacing its commander Stojan Borojević with a

Croat The Croats (; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other neighboring countries in Central Europe, Central and Southeastern Europe who share a common Croatian Cultural heritage, ancest ...

commander Mirko Frković, and dismissing all

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members. In 1941, Nikola Crnković was designated as its Ustaša ''zbirnik''. Following this, a number of Serbs were arrested for possession of arms and held captive at the arms depot in Nova Kršlja, only released thanks to the intervention of Franjo Rajković of the ''općina'' administration in Rakovica.

Demographics

Infrastructure

In 1913, there were 7 gendarmeries in Slunj kotar: Cetin-grad, Gornja Močila, Nova Kršlja, Primišlje, Rakovica,

Slunj Slunj is a town in the mountainous part of Central Croatia, located along the important North-South route to the Adriatic Sea between Karlovac and Plitvice Lakes National Park, on the meeting of the rivers Korana and Slunjčica. Slunj has a popu ...

and

Veljun Veljun is a village in Croatia, under the Slunj township, in Karlovac County. Demographics In 1890, the ''obćina'' of Veljun (court at Veljun), with an area of , belonged to the ''kotar'' of Slunj (Slunj court and electoral district) in the ' ...

References

Populated places in Karlovac County {{Karlovac-geo-stub