Tršće 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 town of
ÄŒabar
ÄŒabar is a town in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in western Croatia.
Name
ÄŒabar is known as ''ÄŒeber'' in the local dialect. The name is believed to derive from the Illyrian word ''ziaber'' 'clearing'.
History
In the late 19th and early 20th ce ...
, 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 ...
.
History
The
volunteer fire department
A volunteer fire department (VFD) is a fire department of volunteers who perform fire suppression and other related emergency services for a local jurisdiction. Volunteer and retained (on-call) firefighters are expected to be on call to respo ...
DVD Tršće was founded on 17 June 1906, and is today part of the ''VZ grada Čabra''. Its current commander is Tomislav Matjašević.
Tršće was hit by the
2014 Dinaric ice storm. From 31 January to 2 February 2014, while S and SW
geostrophic wind
In atmospheric science, geostrophic flow () is the theoretical wind that would result from an exact balance between the Coriolis force and the pressure gradient force. This condition is called '' geostrophic equilibrium'' or ''geostrophic balanc ...
dominated,
freezing rain
Freezing rain is rain maintained at temperatures below melting point, freezing by the ambient air mass that causes freezing on contact with surfaces. Unlike rain and snow mixed, a mixture of rain and snow or ice pellets, freezing rain is made en ...
fell on Gorski Kotar,
glazing the entire region. It wrecked roofs, power lines an forests, causing power loss for about 14,000 households households in Gorski Kotar, or about 80% of its population. It took about 10 days to restore essential infrastructure to the region, and within months electricity was back in most of its former range, but at a cost of about 84.4 million
HRK to
HEP. At the time it was the largest peacetime damage since its
Secession from Yugoslavia, even without counting the forestry losses. The ''Šumarija Tršće'' lost 34% of its wood mass. Clearing blocked forestry roads and forest paths would take years, and thanks to the declining population some were never cleared.
Demographics
Sports
Beginning in 2013, the 7 stage long Cycling Trail of Gorski Kotar () passes through Tršće, where the fourth stage ends and the fifth stage begins.
An annual
enduro
Enduro is a form of motorcycle sport run on extended cross-country, off-road courses. Enduro consists of many different obstacles and challenges. The main type of enduro event, and the format to which the World Enduro Championship is run, is ...
race takes place at Tršće.
References
Populated places in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County
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