Kistanje

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**Kistanje**
Kistanje Kistanje (Croatia)
County	Šibenik-Knin
Latitude	43° 98' 58 N
Longitude	15° 97' 54E
Mayor	Slobodan Rončević (SDSS)
Surface (km²)	152
Population	3,038
Time zone (UTC)	UTC+1 Central European Time

Kistanje (Serbian Cyrillic: Кистање) is a town and municipality in Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia. According to the 2001 census, Kistanje municipality has 3,038 inhabitants of which 57.14% are Serbs and 41.31% are Croats.

1 History
2 Population
3 Geography
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History

Kistanje was mentioned first under present-day name in 1401. In 1527, a Serbian Orthodox Church dedicated to St Nicholas was built in the town. Kistanje was a trade center of this part of Bukovica. After the Kuridža rebellion in 1704, the town was renamed Kvartir, but in the 19th century it was again known as Kistanje. In the 19th and the first part of the 20th century, Kistanje was a centre of municipality. In 1960s, the municipality was abolished and its territory was joined to the municipality of Knin. As an ethnically homogenous area, between 1991-1995 Kistanje was a part of the Republic Of Serbian Krajina. In Operation Storm, Kistanje was ethnically cleansed of its Serbian residents, and the area witnessed numerous war crimes, such as the slaughter of dozens of elderly and disabled Serbian civilians by the Croatian Army in the villages of Gosic and Varivode in the days following Operation Storm. In 1996, a number of Catholic Janjevci was settled by the Croatian government in the abandoned homes of previous Serbian inhabitants, with the intention of changing the demographic picture of an area where Croatian presence was almost non-existent for centuries. Today, Kistanje is again a separate municipality.

[edit] Population

According to the 1981 census, the population of the town of Kistanje was composed of 92.9% Serbs and 5.3% Yugoslavs, while according to the 1991 census, the population was composed of 98% Serbs. Prior to 1995, out of the 14 villages comprising the present Kistanje municipality, ethnic Serbs comprised the entire population in 13, with only Nunic having a small community of ethnic Croats that was still outnumbered by the Serbian majority.

[edit] Geography

Kistanje is located in northern Dalmatia, in the region called Bukovica. The municipality of Kistanje include 14 settlements:

Kistanje
Biovičino Selo
Đevrske
Gošić
Ivoševci
Kakanj
Kolašac
Krnjeuve
Modrino Selo
Nunić
Parčić
Smrdelje
Varivode
Zečevo

[edit] See also

[edit] References

Dr Jovan Plavša, Stanovništvo Kninske Krajine, Novi Sad, 1997.

[edit] External links

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