Vitunj
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Vitunj | |
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  Vitunj | |
| Coordinates: 45°18′N 15°09′E / 45.300°N 15.150°E | |
| Country |  Croatia |
| County | Karlovac |
| City | Ogulin |
| Area | |
• Total | 12.5 km2 (4.8 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | |
• Total | 77 |
| • Density | 6.2/km2 (16/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Vitunj is a small village in Karlovac, Croatia, a suburb of Ogulin.[3]
Seven kilometers west of Ogulin at the river Vitunjčica, a tributary of the River Dobra (Kupa), are the ruins of the medieval Frankopan city Vitunj, about which little is known, only that in 1575, the settlement was abandoned permanently. During the Ottoman incursions, the area was deserted until 1639, when Frankopans settled Vlachs from Petrova fields.
On the coast of the Vitunjčica River there is a small consumer trout fishing farm.
Name
[edit]Vitunj is likely derived from the anthroponym Vitun, itself an addition of the suffix -unъ/-unь to the Christian name Vid/Vit (< Latin: Vitus).[4]: 47, 48
History
[edit]WWII
[edit]According to a plaque in Vitunj, having taken the Partisan oath on 15 October 1941, the following died from Vitunj:[5]
- M.? Bogdan
- Cvijetko Busić
- ? Galović
- Gojko Kosanović
- Jovo Mamula
- Franjo Pavičić
- ? Salopek
- Simo Stjepanović
- Dmitar Tatalović
- M. Tatalović
- Ilija Vujnović
- Ilija Vujnović[a]
- ? Vujnović
- ? Vujnović
- Jure ?
- Franjo ?
Demographics
[edit]According to the Census of 2001, there were 141 residents of Vitunj, with 48 family households.
In 1835, Vitunj belonged to Ogulin. There were 32 houses, with a population of 391. Its residents were mostly Orthodox, but 79 were Catholic.[6]: 305
Infrastructure
[edit]An old road used to run from Vitunj over Lumbarda mountain through Bjelsko (by Potok Musulinski) and Gvozd to Drežnica, and from there to Ledenica and Bribir.[6]: 305
Castle
[edit]The castle was built in an eastern style.[6]: 305
The castle Vitunj belonged to Ivan Frankopan in 1459.[6]: 305
There is no record of its destruction, but being located so close to a high mountain, Fras surmised it had been abandoned by the Frankopan family because of its increasingly unfavourable location with the advance of gunpowder warfare.[6]: 305
Notes
[edit]- ^ Two of the same name are commemorated.
References
[edit]- ^ Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata Q119585703.
- ^ "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
- ^ "VITUNJ". Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ^ Vidović, Domagoj (2011). "Toponimija sela Zvirovići". Župa Studenci u Hercegovini. Mostar: Crkva na kamenu. pp. 47–57. ISBN 978-9958-1918-1-7.
- ^ Branko Lazović (videographer) (2013-01-13) [filmed 1991-08-30]. Vitunj 1991.g. (Motion picture). Vitunj: Neven Vujnović.
- ^ a b c d e Fras, Franz Julius (1835). "Oguliner-Kompagnie" [Ogulin Company]. Vollständige Topographie der Karlstädter-Militärgrenze mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die Beschreibung der Schlösser, Ruinen, Inscriptionen und andern dergleichen Ueberbleibseln von Antiquitäten: nach Anschauung und aus den zuverlässigsten Quellen dargestellt für reisende, und zur Förderung der Vaterlandsliebe (in German). Zagreb: Franz Suppan. pp. 304–307.
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