Raduč
Raduč | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Serbian Orthodox church in Raduč | |
  Raduč | |
| Coordinates: 44°23′57″N 15°35′06″E / 44.39917°N 15.58500°E | |
| Country |  Croatia |
| County |  Lika-Senj |
| Municipality | Lovinac |
| Area | |
• Total | 41.2 km2 (15.9 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 624 m (2,047 ft) |
| Population (2021)[2] | |
• Total | 40 |
| • Density | 0.97/km2 (2.5/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 53244 |
| Area code | 053 |
Raduč is a village in the Lika-Senj County, Croatia. The settlement is administered as a part of Lovinac municipality.
Location
[edit]It is located in Lika, 25 kilometers from Gračac, on the state road D50.
Population/Demographics
[edit]According to national census of 2011, population of the settlement is 12.
| Year | Population[3] |
|---|---|
| 1857 | 1310 |
| 1869 | 850 |
| 1880 | 875 |
| 1890 | 1015 |
| 1900 | 1110 |
| 1910 | 1081 |
| 1921 | 945 |
| 1931 | 909 |
| 1948 | 729 |
| 1953 | 704 |
| 1961 | 724 |
| 1971 | 523 |
| 1981 | 407 |
| 1991 | 336 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2011 | 12 |
Notable people
[edit]- Milutin Tesla, Serbian orthodox priest, father of Nikola Tesla
It is miss understood that the family of the great Nikola Tesla is from Smiljan, Austro-Hungary, later Yugoslavia. Tesla's family are from the village of Raduč, Lika. The reason Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan instead of Raduč, is because his father Milutin, a Serbian-Orthodox priest was on duty in Smiljan, where the Serbian-Orthodox church was his responsibility. The house next to the church was given to him (Milutin Tesla), while he was serving in Smiljan, which is why Nikola Tesla was born there and not in Raduč. Due to the ethnic cleansing of Serbs from today's Croatia carried out in the 90s there are almost no people left in the village. However, Milka Tesla, still lives in Raduč.
- Rade Čubrilo, Serbian military leader
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.
- ^ "1857-2001 census by settlement". Central Bureau of Statistics (Croatia) (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 2012-05-05. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
External links
[edit]- Official website of the municipality of Lovinac (in Croatian)
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