Official Name: | Brod Moravice |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Croatia |
Coordinates: | 45.46°N 14.97°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Croatia |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Gorski Kotar |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Primorje-Gorski Kotar |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Dragutin Crnković |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 62.0 |
Area Urban Km2: | 3.4 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 663 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Urban: | 270 |
Population Density Urban Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | CET |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Brod Moravice is a municipality in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in western Croatia.
Brod Moravice was first mentioned in 1260. The rural municipality was founded in the 14th century.[2] Throughout history, it has also been known as Moravice, Gornje Moravice, Turanj and Brodske Moravice. The name was first recorded in one of Bela IV's documents in 1260. The first settlements appeared in Gorski kotar as early as the 10th or 11th centuries, due to the fact that routes to the coast passed through this area.
During the 15th and 16th centuries, the municipality was the subject of numerous Turkish raids.
The municipality, part of the historic and geographic large region of the Littoral, is located in the mountain range close to Croatian borders with Slovenia. It dists 65 km from Karlovac, 71 from Rijeka, 114 from Zagreb, 104 from Ljubljana and 144 from Trieste.
It is the smallest municipality by population, and the oldest one in its county.
The municipality is divided into 38 localities, included the town of Brod Moravice itself. In the 2011 census, there were a total of 985 inhabitants in the following settlements:
By ethnicity, there were 96% Croats and 4% Italians in the same census.
The municipality counts lot of ancient church buildings. It is also a receptive place for tourism due to its natural environment.[3]
Brod Moravice is crossed by the state road D3 and the nearest motorway is the A6 (nearest exit is the n.3 "Ravna Gora"). As for railways, it counts a station on the line Rijeka-Ogulin-Karlovac-Zagreb.