Baška Voda : Croatia
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Dubrovnik : Croatia
Dubrovnik (Latin Ragusa), population 43,770 in 2001, 49,728 in 1991 is a port and one of the most prominent tourist resorts on the Adriatic Sea coast in the extreme south of Croatia, and the center of the Dubrovnik-Neretva county, positioned at 42.39N Lat and 18.04E Long. It has the nickname “Pearl of the Adriatic”.
The city of Ragusa/Dubrovnik was based on maritime trade, and in the Middle Ages it became the only eastern Adriatic city-state that rivalled Venice. Supported by its wealth and skilled diplomacy, the Latin/Slavic Ragusa/Dubrovnik achieved a remarkable level of development during the 15th and 16th century. Dubrovnik was one of the centers of the development of the Croatian language and literature, home to many notable poets, playwrights, painters, mathematicians, physicists and other scholars.
Hvar : Croatia
Hvar is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea, off the Dalmatian coast.
The town of Hvar on the opposite side of the island (population 4,138 in 2001) is the site of the first public theatre in Europe, opened in 1612. The town of Stari Grad, located on the north part of the island (population 2,817 in 2001) was the site of one of the first human settlements on the Adriatic islands during antiquity. Plame, the eastern part of the island, is a thin slice of land and the island is narrower towards the north. Venetian sailors saw the island while sailing towards the Neretva Channel and were threatened by pirates from the island.
In the 4th century BC the people of Pharos defeated Jasadini warriors and their allies. Their victory over much larger forces is immortalized an inscription, one of the oldest known inscriptions of Croatia.
Karlovac : Croatia
Karlovac is a city in central Croatia with 59,395 inhabitants (2001), center of the Karlovac county. Karlovac is located on the Zagreb-Rijeka highway and railway line, 56 km south-west from Zagreb and 130 km from Rijeka.
Karlovac was founded in a fort built in the 16th century where four rivers merge (Kupa, Korana, Mrenica and Dobra) with a unique shape: as a six-side star fort. The shape of this star still exists around the town. Its name is Carlstadt in German, after the archduke Charles of Habsburg who had it built starting July 13, 1579 on the Zrinski estate near the old town of Dubovac (the castle of Dubovac still exists). The architect of the city was Matija Gambon.
The first church (of the Holy Trinity) was built in the central square in 1580, but all of the city buildings burned down in the fire of 1594. The forces of the Ottoman Empire laid siege to Karlovac seven times, the last time in 1672, but failed to occupy it. The plague epidemic of 1773 was also a notable threat to the city, decimating almost half the population at the time.
Korcula : Croatia
Kor?ula (Italian Curzola, Greek Korkyra Melaina, Latin Corcyra Nigra) is the island in the Adriatic Sea with the area of 279 m2, 46.8 km long and 7.8 km wide, populated with 17 038 inhabitants. Island has a long Byzantine, Croatian and Venetian history and lies lengthwise on the Dalmatian coast, in the Dubrovnik-Neretva county of Croatia.
Kor?ula is also the name of the ancient fortified town on the protected east coast of the island with population of 3 232 inhabitants (2001), positioned at 4257’N Latitude, 1707’E Longitude.
Geography
The island of Kor?ula belongs to the central Dalmatian archipelago, separated from the Peljeac peninsula by a narrow strait of Peljeac, between 900 and 3,000 meters wide (illustration, right). It is the sixth largest Adriatic island with a rather indented coast. The highest peaks are Klup?a (568 m) and Kom (510 m). The climate is mild; an average air temperature in January is 9.8 C and in July 26.9 C; the average annual rainfall is 1,100 mm. The island is largely covered with the Mediterranean flora; at some places are pine forests.
