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Krk (Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
Veglia, ; Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
Curicta) is a Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
n island in the northern Adriatic Sea

Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges....
, located near Rijeka

Rijeka

Rijeka is the principal seaport of Croatia, located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea. It has 144,043 inhabitants and is Croatia's third largest city....
in the Bay of Kvarner and part of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar county

Primorje-Gorski Kotar County

Primorje-Gorski kotar County is a county in western Croatia that includes the Bay of Kvarner and the surrounding Northern Croatian seacoast, and the mountainous region of Gorski kotar....
.

Krk is, together with Cres

Cres

Cres is an Adriatic island in Croatia. It is one of the northern island in the Kvarner Gulf and can be reached via ferry from the island Krk or from the Istrian peninsula ....
, the largest Adriatic island, with an area of 405.78 km², and also the most populous one, with numerous towns and villages totalling 17,860 (2001). Although recent student surveys pointed that Cres

Cres

Cres is an Adriatic island in Croatia. It is one of the northern island in the Kvarner Gulf and can be reached via ferry from the island Krk or from the Istrian peninsula ....
is the largest Croatian island, most recent official data show they are the same size.

municipalities and larger settlements on Krk include:

Boachen - Gabonjin Krassitz - Krašica Sankt Anton - Anton

Anton

Anton is a given name in many European languages. It is a variant of the same root as Antonius or Anthony .]]#]d1fq...
Sankt Foska - Pinezici Sankt Maria - Glavotok Sankt Niklas - Valbiska Sniewitz - Njivice

Njivice

Njivice is a town in the Herceg Novi in Montenegro. It is situated on the south-west coast of Herceg Novi in Boka Kotorska, with a view to the town of Herceg Novi and Mount Orjen....

is located rather near the mainland and has been connected to it via a 1,430 meter two-arch concrete bridge

Krk Bridge

Krk Bridge is a 1430 m long reinforced concrete arch bridge connecting the Croatian island of Krk to the mainland and carrying over a million vehicles per year....
since 1980, one of the longest concrete bridges in the world.

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Krk (Italian

Italian language

Latin

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
n island in the northern Adriatic Sea

Adriatic Sea

Rijeka

Primorje-Gorski Kotar County

Cres

Towns

The municipalities and larger settlements on Krk include:

The eponymous city of Krk
Krk (town)

Krk is the main settlement of the island of Krk. It located on the southwest coast of the island and is seat of the Roman Catholic Church Diocese of Krk....
, with 5,491 inhabitants (2001), located at .
Omišalj
Omišalj

Omi?alj is a small coastal town in the north-west of the island of Krk in Croatia. The population of the town itself is 1,790 , while the Omi?alj municipality also includes the nearby Njivice, bringing the total up to 2,998 people....
(; ): 2,998 people
Malinska
Malinska

Malinska is a settlement in the northwestern part of the island Krk in Croatia and an important tourist town. It lies on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, in the picturesque bay facing Opatija and Rijeka....
-Dubašnica (Italian: Malinsca; German: Durischal): 2,726 people
Punat
Punat

Punat is a municipality in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar county in western Croatia. There are 1,876 inhabitants, with 91% Croats. The town first appears in writings from AD 1377, but we do know the exact date of foundation....
(Italian: Ponte; German: Sankt Maria): 1,876 people
Dobrinj
Dobrinj

Dobrinj is a municipality in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar county in western Croatia, on the island of Krk. There are 1,970 inhabitants, with 91% Croats....
(Italian: Dobrigno; German: Dobrauen): 1,970 people
Baška
Baška

Ba?ka is a small town located on the island of Krk, in the Kvarner Bay, at the Adriatic seacoast of Croatia. The population of the municipality is 1,554 , with 901 residents of Ba?ka itself and the rest in three other villages....
(Italian: Besca; German: Weschke): 1,554 people
Vrbnik
Vrbnik

Vrbnik is a Croatian village perched on a rocky outcrop by the Adriatic sea on the east coast of the island of Krk. Originally a walled village, it was established in medieval times....
(Italian: Verbenico; German: Vörbnick): 1,245 people

Boachen - Gabonjin Krassitz - Krašica Sankt Anton - Anton

Anton

Njivice

Njivice is a town in the Herceg Novi in Montenegro. It is situated on the south-west coast of Herceg Novi in Boka Kotorska, with a view to the town of Herceg Novi and Mount Orjen....

Economics and infrastructure

Krk is located rather near the mainland and has been connected to it via a 1,430 meter two-arch concrete bridge

Krk Bridge

Omišalj

Omi?alj is a small coastal town in the north-west of the island of Krk in Croatia. The population of the town itself is 1,790 , while the Omi?alj municipality also includes the nearby Njivice, bringing the total up to 2,998 people....
also hosts the Rijeka International Airport

Rijeka Airport

Rijeka Airport is the airport serving Rijeka, Croatia. It is located on the island of Krk, 27 km from the Rijeka railway station. Most of the traffic to the airport is by European Low-cost carrier flying tourists to northern Croatian coast....
as well as an oil refinery

Oil refinery

An oil refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt, heating oil, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas....
(related to the Rijeka port

Port

||-||-|-||-||-||-||-||-||-|}A port is a facility for receiving ships and transferring cargo. They are usually found at the edge of an ocean, sea, river, or lake....
tanker facilities). A monastery

Monastery

Monastery , a term derived from the Greek language word ???ast?????, neut. of ???ast????? - monasterios denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of Monk, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in Cenobium or alone ....
lies on the small island of Košljun

Košljun

File:Chiostro monastero.jpgKo?ljun is a tiny island in the Adriatic Sea in a bay off the coast of Krk, near Punat in Croatia. It is approximately 300 meters in diameter....
in a bay off the coast of Krk.

Krk is a popular tourist destination, because of the situation and proximity to Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north....
, southern Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
, and northern Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. Since the collapse of the Eastern Bloc

Eastern bloc

During the Cold War, the terms Eastern Bloc, Communist Bloc or Soviet Bloc were used to refer to European annexed or expanded Soviet Socialist Republics of the USSR and Satellite state states, including members of the Soviet-dominated organizations Comecon and the Warsaw Pact....
, many tourists have appeared from Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
, Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
, and other former Eastern Bloc countries.

History

The island has been inhabited since before 10th century BCE. The Romans

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
called the island Curicta. During the Roman Civil War, the Bay of Curicta was the scene of sea combat between the fleets of Caesar

Julius Caesar

'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
and Pompey

Pompey

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, commonly known as Pompey /'p?mpi/, Pompey the Great or Pompey the Triumvir , was a distinguished military and political leader of the late Roman Republic....
.

Over a thousand years later, the island was the center of the Vegliot dialect of the Dalmatian language

Dalmatian language

Dalmatian is an extinct Romance languages formerly spoken in the Dalmatia region of Croatia, and as far south as Kotor in Montenegro.The Dalmatian speakers lived in the coastal towns: Zadar, Trogir, Split , Dubrovnik and Kotor , each of these cities having a local dialect, and also on the islands of Krk, Cres and Rab ....
. Krk was also the seat of medieval bishop

Bishop

A bishop is an ordination or consecration member of the Clergy#Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight....
s and important nobility, the Frankopan

Frankopan

The Frankopans were a Croatian nobility family. Also called Frankapan, Frangep?n in Hungarian language, and Frangipani in Turkish language.The Frankopan family ranked next to the Zrinski family in importance by virtue of their power, wealth, fame, glory and role in Croatia's public life....
s.

Culture and religion

Krk has historically been a center of Croatian

Croats

Croats are a South Slavs nation mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 5 million Croats living in the southern Central Europe region, along the east bank of the Adriatic Sea and an estimated 9 million throughout the world....
culture. Various literature in Glagolitic alphabet

Glagolitic alphabet

The Glagolitic alphabet , also known as Glagolitsa, is the oldest known Slavic peoples alphabet. The name was not coined until many centuries after its creation, and comes from the Old Slavic glagol? "utterance" ....
was created and in part preserved on Krk (notably the Baška Tablet, the oldest preserved text in Croatian

Croatian language

Croatian language is a South Slavic languages which is used primarily in Croatia, by Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in neighbouring countries where Croats are Indigenous peoples, in Italian region of Molise, and parts of the Croats diaspora....
).

Krk belonged to the Republic of Venice

Republic of Venice

The Most Serene Republic of Venice or Venetian Republic was a state originating from the city of Venice . It existed for over a millennium, from the late 7th century AD until the year 1797....
during the Middle Ages until its dissolution

Treaty of Campo Formio

The Treaty of Campo Formio or Peace of Campo Formio was signed on October 17, 1797 by Napoleon Bonaparte and Count Ludwig von Cobenzl as representatives of France and Austria....
, when its destinies followed those of Dalmatia

Dalmatia

Dalmatia is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, situated mostly in modern Croatia and spreading between the island of Rab in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor in the southeast....
. It became part of the kingdom SHS, later Yugoslavia, after World War I

World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
, in 1920. After that date, the village of Veglia/Krk remained the only predominantly Italian-speaking municipality in Yugoslavia. After WWII, most of the Italians left.

Catholic bishopric

Other

The fictional island Everon from the video game Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis is based on Krk.

Krk

Towns

Economics and infrastructure

History

Culture and religion

Catholic bishopric

Other

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