Kistanje

Kistanje ( Serbian Cyrillic Кистање, Italian Chistagne ) is a town and commune in the Croatian Šibenik-Knin County. According to the census of 2011 has Kistanje 3,481 inhabitants, of whom 62.22 % 36.83 % Serbs and Croats.

History

In the 6th and 7th century AD Croats settled on the territory of today Kistanje. In 925, the area came to the newly formed Kingdom of Croatia under King Tomislav. In the year 1000 the Venetian fleet defeated Croatia. Kistanje (then Chistagne ) and the rest of Dalmatia (except Dubrovnik) came temporarily under Venetian administration.

Kistanje was mentioned with the current name for the first time in 1401. 1527 a Serbian Orthodox church was built in the city and dedicated to St. Nicholas. Kistanje was the commercial center of this part of Bukovica. After Kuridža uprising of 1704, the city was renamed in Kvartir, but this was revised in the 19th century.

After the collapse of Venice in 1797 and the short reign of France under Napoleon ( 1809-1813 ), Austria took over control of Dalmatia and thus on Kistanje, which was assigned to the Crown Land Dalmatia. In 1919, Croatia and thus Kistanje was integrated into the state of the South Slavs (Yugoslavia). From 1945 Kistanje belongs to the Socialist Republic of Croatia, which declared independence in 1991 from the multi-ethnic state of Yugoslavia and today forms the Republic of Croatia.

In the 19th and early 20th century Kistanje was the capital of the municipality. In the 1960s, the community was dissolved and the area of Knin slammed. As almost exclusively inhabited by Serbs area Kistanje was from 1991 to 1995 part of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina. In the Operation Storm the Serb population was expelled Kistanjes. In the area several war crimes were committed, such as the murder of dozens of elderly and disabled Serb civilians by the Croatian army in the villages Gosić and Varivode. 1996 moved the Croatian Government Catholic Janjevci in the abandoned houses of Serb residents with the aim of creating an ethnic Croat majority. Since the return of part of the Serbs Kistanje is a mixed city.

Population

The 1981 census, according to the population consisted of 92.9 % from Kistanje Serbs and Yugoslavs 5.3%, while the 1991 census indicates 98% Serbs. Prior to 1995, 13 of the villages around Kistanje were inhabited only Serbian and only Nunic had a majority of ethnic Croats.

Personalities

  • Josip Giuseppe Modrić, Croatian writers from the 19th century

Geography

Kistanje is located in northern Dalmatia. The municipality consists of 14 settlements Kistanje:

  • Kistanje
  • Biovičino Selo
  • Đevrske
  • Gosić
  • Ivoševci
  • Kakanj
  • Kolašac
  • Krnjeuve
  • Modrino Selo
  • Nunic
  • Parčić
  • Smrdelje
  • Varivode
  • Zečevo
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