Skradin

Coordinates: 43°49′N 15°55′E / 43.817°N 15.917°E / 43.817; 15.917
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Skradin
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
22222
Area code022
Websitegrad-skradin.hr

Skradin is a small town in the

Skradinski buk
, was named after Skradin.

History

During

Ancient Greek: Σκaρδῶνα).[3]

Before the

Scardus mountains in southern Illyria.[7] After an initial development in Vulgar Latin in the form -una, the Illyrian suffix was reflected in South Slavic as -in.[8][9] The survival of several of such toponyms in the area (e.g. Solin from Salona, Labin from Albona etc) points to the continuation of Illyrian settlements since ancient times.[8] Another, more peripheral, theory says the root of the name might be related to that of the Scordisci, a Celtic or Illyrian tribe.[3][10] Though initially located in present-day Eastern Slavonia and Syrmia,[11] the Scordisci might have been allied with the local tribe of the Dalmatae, as mercenaries, which would explain their presence in Dalmatia.[12]

After the Roman conquest, Skradin became an administrative and military centre of the region, and was mentioned as a municipium in 530.[9] It was destroyed during the Migration Period, and had by the 9th century been settled by Croats.[citation needed]

During the 10th century, it was one of the fortified towns in Croatia, as the centre of the Skradin županija.[citation needed]

Skradin under Šubić rule

Turina Fortress above the town

In the late 13th and early 14th centuries, Skradin flourished as the capital of the Šubić bans, Paul I and Mladen II. The Šubić's built the Turina fortress on the hill overlooking the Skradin harbor.[13] They elevated the settlement below the fortress to a free city, at which point it also became a commune, and was granted its own statute and administration.[14][15][16] They further enriched the city by constructing several richly-endowed monasteries which housed the Dominicans, Franciscans and other Christian orders.[17]

Decline and Ottoman conquest

Skradin after Ottoman conquest in 1574

Skradin was conquered by the Ottomans in 1522 and remain part of the Ottoman Empire until 1684, with a few interruptions. During the Ottoman–Venetian wars, the town was devastated and subsequently relocated.[9]

In October 1683, some uskoks from Venetian Dalmatia, mainly Morlachs from Ravni Kotari, rose up against the Sanjak-bey of Klis and took Skradin and several other border towns which had been deserted by their Ottoman Muslim population, who was fearing an attack by the Morlachs.[18][19] The Venetians finally took Skradin in 1684 and the town recovered under their rule, during the 18th century, becoming the center of a municipality in 1705.[9]

Later, it was occupied by Napoleon as part of the French Empire, then Austria-Hungary.

In time it lost its importance as the centre of the region, which shifted to Šibenik, and so it stagnated - the

Diocese of Skradin was abandoned in 1828.[20]

Population

Town of Skradin: Population trends 1857–2021
v
population
4997
5711
5865
6055
7019
7663
8454
8634
9316
10135
10294
9585
8716
8027
3986
3825
3349
18571869188018901900191019211931194819531961197119811991200120112021
Sources:Croatian Bureau of Statistics publications

The municipality has a total population of 3,349 (2021 census). Its population is divided into the following

settlements:[21]

Notable people

References

  1. Wikidata Q119585703
    .
  2. ^ "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
  3. ^
    ISBN 9783110995152
    .
  4. ^ Wilkes, John (1996). The Illyrians. The Peoples of Europe. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 71.
  5. ^ Georgiev, Vladimir (1981). Introduction to the History of the Indo-European Languages. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. p. 172.
  6. ^ Polomé, Edgar G. (1966). "The Position of Illyrian and Venetic". In Birnbaum, Henrik; Puhvel, Jaan (eds.). Ancient Indo-European Dialects. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 61.
  7. ISBN 978-9928-339-74-4
    . p. 363.
  8. ^ a b Ureland, P.S. (2003). Convergence and Divergence of European Languages. Studies in eurolinguistics. Logos. p. 356.
  9. ^
    ISBN 9788671790406
    ..
  10. ^ Shaposhnikov, Alexander K. (2016). "Materialy k jetimologicheskomu slovarju slavjanskih drevnostej Grecii II" [Materials for the etymological dictionary of Slavic antiquities of Greece II]. Proceedings of the V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute. 8: 178.
  11. ISBN 9789616169363
    .
  12. ISBN 9789616169363
    .
  13. ^ "Turina i dalje u mraku - grad spomenik gubi identitet > Slobodna Dalmacija". Archived from the original on 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
  14. ^ Erceg, Anđela (29 September 2017). Kulturna i politička povijest grada Skradina u 19. Stoljeću (info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis). University of Zagreb. Department of Croatian Studies. Division of Croatology.
  15. ^ Klaić, Nada (24 December 1980). "How Skradin Liberated Itself from the Supremacy of the Princes of Bribir". Prilozi Povijesti Umjetnosti U Dalmaciji. 22 (1): 30–40.
  16. S2CID 189512517
    .
  17. ^ "Skradin | Hrvatska enciklopedija".
  18. ISBN 9788617015631
    .
  19. ISBN 9788883343346
    .
  20. ISBN 953-178-097-8
  21. ^ "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
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