Lokvičići

Lokvičići is a village and seat of the community in the Middle East Dalmatia in Croatia. It belongs politically to the Split-Dalmatia County.

Location

The village consists of the settlements Lokvičići, Poboji, Kljenovac, Berinovac and Dolica Draga. It is located in the historic Imotska Krajina, where it is again in the Northwest. To the east of Lokvičići several lakes, such are: Lokvičićko Jezero ( Jezero also Mamica ) and Galipovac. Just recently there was a natural way a new lake. The village is the seat of the Roman Catholic church ( Zupa ) Krista Kralj ( Christ the King ), to which the churches Kralj Krist ( Christ the King ), Sv.Ivan (Saint John) and Sv. Ante ( St. Anthony ) belong. Through the village runs an old Roman road.

History

In pre-Roman times, the area was inhabited by Illyrians. Under the Romans it belonged to the province of Dalmatia. Then it belonged to the Byzantine Empire. Later it became the Principality of Croatia, was out of the then Kingdom of Croatia under Tomislav and his successors. Lokvičići was conquered with the whole Imotska Krajina by the Ottomans. Later it was affiliated with the remainder of Dalmatia to the Venetian Republic. At the time of Napoleon Bonaparte, all of Dalmatia was assigned to the French Illyrian Provinces.

With the Congress of Vienna in 1815 came as a kingdom Dalmatia Dalmatia to Austria. Later, it came to the Austrian part of Austria -Hungary. With the Treaty of Versailles Croatia was completely incorporated to the newly created Kingdom of Yugoslavia. During the Second World War, it then moved to fascist Croatia. Then it came with all of Croatia to the socialist Yugoslavia. Since the Yugoslav wars eventually Lokvičići is part of the independent Republic of Croatia.