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unusual facts about Lika-Senj County


Primorska banka

Primorska banka d.d. Rijeka is a regional commercial bank that operates in the city of Rijeka and the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Istria County and Lika-Senj County.


Battle of Knin

The Knin operation had three phases: Initial battles on approaches to Knin from 7 November to 25 November, main battle and liberation of Knin from 26 November to 4 December, and final battles and pursuit of retreating Axis forces to Otrić in Lika from 5 December to 9 December.

Bosanska Krajina

In January 1528, the Ottomans under Gazi Husrev-beg took command of Jajce, Banja Luka and Ključ, followed by Krbava and Lika in the spring of that year.

Croats of Boka Kotorska

Nikola Modruški, Bishop of Modruš in Lika, Croatia, also known as Nicolaus Machinensis and Nicolo di Cattaro.

Groove Family Cyco

Groove Family Cyco / Snapped Lika Mutha is the 3rd album by Infectious Grooves, a 1994 concept record about a family of crazy people (the 'Cycos').

Josif Rajačić

Rajačić was born in Lučani, a former village near Brinje in Lika (then Habsburg Monarchy, today Croatia).

Kljajićevo

In this time, after the legally forced expulsion of ancestral Shwovish farms and dwellings, Serbs from Croatia (Lika, Gorski Kotar, Žumberak, and Kordun) began living in the abandoned, expropriated buildings.

Miroslav Kraljević

Miroslav Kraljević was born on 14 December 1885 in Gospić, in the area of Lika.

Modruš

Modruš is a village in the mountainous part of Croatia, located south of Josipdol (Karlovac County), on the easternmost slopes of Velika Kapela mountain, in northern Lika.

Operation Maslenica

Operation Maslenica was a Croatian Army offensive launched in January 1993 to retake territory in northern Dalmatia and Lika from Krajina Serb forces, with the stated military objective of pushing the Serbs back from approaches to Zadar and Maslenica Bay, allowing a secure land route between Dalmatia and northern Croatia to be opened.

Petar Drapšin

Despite difficult terrain and need for complicated amphibious operation, Drapšin's force scored spectacular success by piercing through enemy lines in Lika, defeating German forces in the Battle of Rijeka, landing in Istria and entering Trieste before Allied forces.


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