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Municipality in Dalmatian Hinterland, Croatia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ervenik (Serbian Cyrillic: Ервеник)[1] is a village and municipality in Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia. There were 826 inhabitants (municipality) in 2021, and 97.19% of the population were Serbs, making Ervenik the municipality with the highest percentage of Serbs in Croatia. Population of the village was 243.[4]
Ervenik
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Općina Ervenik Општина Ервеник Municipality of Ervenik | |
Coordinates: 44.107684°N 15.939871°E | |
Country | Croatia |
Historical region | Dalmatian Hinterland |
County | Šibenik-Knin |
Government | |
• Mayor | Predrag Burza (SDSS) |
Area | |
• Municipality | 212.8 km2 (82.2 sq mi) |
• Urban | 91.3 km2 (35.3 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[3] | |
• Municipality | 789 |
• Density | 3.7/km2 (9.6/sq mi) |
• Urban | 227 |
• Urban density | 2.5/km2 (6.4/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
Website | ervenik |
There are several churches in the village:
Also, in the vicinity of Mokro Polje (Ervenik), there are remains of the aristocratic Kegalj fort (Kegaljgrad), which was first mentioned in documents in 1433.
The municipality of Ervenik includes 5 settlements:[5]
Population by census[6] | ||||||||||||||||
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1857 | 1869 | 1880 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1921 | 1931 | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | 2021 |
4,874 | 5,222 | 5,224 | 5,835 | 6,511 | 7,059 | 6,518 | 7,331 | 6,848 | 6,945 | 6,694 | 5,710 | 4,836 | 4,115 | 988 | 1,105 | 826 |
Note: Formed from part of the pre-war municipality of Knin.
Population by census[6] | ||||||||||||||||
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1857 | 1869 | 1880 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1921 | 1931 | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | 2021 |
2,080 | 2,129 | 2,123 | 2,337 | 2,466 | 2,788 | 2,467 | 2,829 | 2,318 | 2,331 | 2,397 | 2,056 | 1,827 | 1,570 | 227 | 287 | 243 |
Note: From 1857 until 1961 the village of Ervenik was listed as two separate inhabited places, Donji Ervenik and Gornji Ervenik. The population from those years is the sum of the two villages.
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