Official Name: | Lukoran |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Mapsize: | 275 |
Pushpin Map: | Croatia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Croatia |
Subdivision Type1: | County |
Subdivision Name1: | Zadar County |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 9.8 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 478 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 23274 |
Area Code: | 023 |
Lukoran is a village in Croatia, located on the Adriatic island of Ugljan overlooking at the Zadar peninsula. It is connected with other island villages with the State route D110. Lukoran was mentioned in the year 1068. It was the birthplace of Šimun Klimantović*https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Šimun_Klimantović (Klemenović, around 1460–1540), a Glagolitic writer, as he said for himself in his chronicle of the Glagolitic (1511). His two collections are kept in Zagreb and in the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg.
Lukoran is a village mainly active in fishing, agriculture and tourism. It has four settlements: Mali Lukoran, Turkija, Veli Lukoran and Prkljug. The highest peak of the island is Šćah (286 m).
Lukoran has 503 inhabitants. In 1075, it was mentioned as the property of the Zadar Benedictines.[2]