Kordun

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The Kordun region is a part of central Croatia at the bottom of the Petrova gora (Peter's mountain) mountain range, which extends along the river Korana and forms part of the border region to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The southern border of Kordun touches the Lika region. Kordun with its centre Slunj wholly belongs to Karlovac county. In former times, this region belonged to the Habsburg Military Frontier towards the Ottoman Empire.

The area has rich wood resources. Before the Croatian War of Independence during the 1990s, the population of the region was composed of Croats and Serbs. The Kordun region had to suffer massive war damage and many inhabitants had to leave this region because of the war. The region was held by Croatian Serb army from 1991 to 1995. Today, the economic situation is slowly improving, but still there is a quite large tendency of emigration from this agricultural region with its many hills.

A typical phenomenon of this region is the porous composition of the karst soil (consisting of limestone), which creates numerous crater-like dolines (sinkholes, Croatian dolina). There also exist many underground river systems, of which many have not yet been discovered or which still need thorough examination. Also, the typical soil of the Kordun region is red earth (Terra rossa).