Otišić is a small village in the

Split-Dalmatia County Split-Dalmatia County ( ) is a central-southern Dalmatian county in Croatia. The administrative center is Split. The population of the county is 455,242 (2011). The land area is 4.540 km2, the total area is 14.106,40 km2. Split-Dalmati ...

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. Located in inland

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, south of

Vrlika Vrlika is a small town in inland Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. The closest large towns are Sinj, Knin, and Drniš. Vrlika was given the status of town in 1997. Vrlika is an underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as the Ar ...

, on the State route D1 between towns of

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and

. Otišić is a settlement in the Vrlika municipality, with a population of about 20, the majority of whom are ethnic

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(2001 census). The 1991 census, held before the

War in Croatia The Croatian War of Independence) and (rarely) "War in Krajina" ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Рат у Крајини, Rat u Krajini) are used. was an armed conflict fought in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 between Croats, Croat forces loyal to the Governmen ...

(1991–1995), registered Otišić with a population of 1,006, out of which 996 were ethnic Serbs. During the War, the village was held by the

Republic of Serb Krajina The Republic of Serbian Krajina or Serb Republic of Krajina ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Република Српска Крајина, Republika Srpska Krajina, separator=" / ", ; abbr. РСК / RSK), known as the Serbian Krajina ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српск� ...

. In 2007, the settlement, which had up until then been a part of

, was joined into Vrlika. Otišić spreads on 51.01 km², between mountain

Svilaja Svilaja is a mountain range in Croatia, in the Dalmatian Hinterland. It is part of the Dinaric Alps and stretches from the town of Sinj northwest to the Petrovo field, approximately 30 km in length. The highest peak is Svilaja or Bat at 15 ...

on the southwest and 25-km long

Peruća Lake Lake Peruća or Peruča ( or ') is the second largest artificial lake in Croatia, after Lake Dubrava. It is located in the Split-Dalmatia County. Location Located in inland Dalmatia, south of the spring (hydrosphere), source of the River Cetina, n ...

- Power Plant Accumulation on the northeast. There are the following hamlets or geographical parts of the village: Draga Otišićka, Gaj, Poljana, Ječmište, Krivošija, Dubrava, Ograde, Poljice Otišićko, Rudopolje Sinjsko, Svilaja, Ševina Njiva, Tavan, and Vlake. The village of Otišić was inhabited by a large number of Serb brotherhoods, such as: Stojisavljević, Rnić, Borković, Dragić, Ustić, Arambasić, Gajić, Petrović, Meljanac, Krivosić, Zagorac, Krunić, Grubić, Vujasin and others. In the village there is a small

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Church (''crkva sv. Arhanđela Mihaila''), which was built in 1889. There is some archeological interest of the area because of finding site from

Stone Age The Stone Age was a broad prehistory, prehistoric period during which Rock (geology), stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years and ended b ...

and

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, and remains of an early

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Church.

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Populated places in Split-Dalmatia County Archaeological sites in Croatia Vrlika {{SplitDalmatia-geo-stub

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