Turke is a

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in the

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Delnice Delnice () is a town in western Croatia, the largest settlement in the mountainous region of Gorski Kotar, in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. The town has a population of 3861, and total municipality population is 5135 (2021). Delnice is Gorsk ...

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. In 2021, its population was 19.

History

A 22 December 1939 decision as part of

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by Ban Šubašić to confiscate the local forest property of the

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family,

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and Nikola Petrović resulted in a legal dispute known as the

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, in part because of the relative status of the family and in part because of the proximity to the Italian border. At 21:30 on 30 April 1942, a group of Partisans from the 2nd battalion of the and part of the 3rd battalion of the attacked the outpost of the

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Brod na Kupi Brod na Kupi () is a village located 12 km north of Delnice, in the western part of Gorski Kotar in Croatia. A bridge connects it with Petrina in Slovenia. Its population is 207 (2011 census). History Brod na Kupi was first mentioned on 22 ...

with multiple machine guns, simultaneously attacking the Financial Guard. There were around 120 Partisans with 5 machine guns against 10 Croatian soldiers. After a short battle, the soldiers were disarmed, and a Croatian soldier Luka Klanac was captured by the Partisans and taken to their camp. 4 financial guardsmen fled, later appearing in Delnice, while 6 were captured. On 1 May, about 300 rebels from the Croatian side moving along the road through Kuželj joined about 600 Partisans from the Slovene side and completed the capture of Brod, confiscating the soldiers' uniforms and imprisoning them in their barracks, eventually taking several soldiers with them and letting two go on 9 May. The fate of the Croatian garrison in Turke, which had been withdrawn to that village from Hrvatsko, remained unknown, save for Franjo Drašković who was taken with them. The Delnice-Brod connection was cut the same day by these Partisans, at 15:30. The Italian garrison of around 150 in Brod had retreated on 29 April to

Kočevje Kočevje (; ; ''Göttscheab'' or ''Gətscheab'' in the local Gottscheerish dialect; ) is a town and the seat of Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. Geography The town is located at the foot of the Kočevski Rog karst plateau on t ...

and were poorly defended, but on 10 May, the Italian army entered Brod from all sides and the Partisans fled.

Demographics

Governance

National

At the

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, Turke voted mainly for the

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Sports

Beginning in 2013, the 7 stage long Cycling Trail of Gorski Kotar () passes through Turke.

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History

* * * Populated places in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County {{PrimorjeGorskiKotar-geo-stub