Bukovica
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Bukovica is a geographical region in Croatia. It is situated in northern Dalmatia, between Lika in the north, Kninska Krajina in the east, and Ravni Kotari in the south-west. Prior to the war, it encompassed the western half of the Knin municipality, the eastern half of the Benkovac municipality and almost the entire Obrovac municipality.
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[edit] Towns
Main towns in the region are Kistanje and Obrovac. Larger villages in the area are Žegar, Biovičino Selo, Ervenik, Mokro Polje, Đevrske, Ivoševci, and Zelengrad.
[edit] Population
Before the Croatian War of Independence during the 1990s, the region had a population composed of Serbian majority; the Croats were a minority there.
Croats comprised an absolute majority in 4 villages: Bruska, Lisičić, Nunić and Rodaljice, and a relative majority in the ethnically-mixed villages of Medviđa and Popovići. The remaining 28 settlements, including all the towns and the larger villages, had an absolute Serb majority.
At the beginning of the Serbian aggresion on Croatia, helped with the rebellion of local Serbs, Croat population suffered heavy ethnic cleansing [1].
Today, in major part of this area, the relative majority of population are Croats. [2], [3].
The reason for that sudden shift is organised evacuation of Serbs in August of 1995.
In recent decade, a number of Croat Janjevci group has been settled in abandoned houses there, mostly in area around Kistanje.
[edit] References
- Živko Bjelanović, Antroponimija Bukovice, Split, 1988.
- Dr Jovan Plavša, Stanovništvo Kninske Krajine, Novi Sad, 1997.
