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Smiljan is a village
Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
 in the mountainous region of Lika
Lika

Lika is a mountainous region in central Croatia, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Pljesevica mountain from the northeast....
, Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
. It is located seven kilometers west of Gospic
Gospic

Gospic is a town in the mountainous and sparsely populated region of Lika, Croatia. It is the Local government centre of Lika-Senj county....
, and fifteen kilometers from the Zagreb-Split highway; its population is 446 (2001). Smiljan is known best for being the birthplace of Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was an inventor and a mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Tesla was born in the village of Smiljan near the town of Gospic, in Croatia ....
 on July 10, 1856 (at that time part of Austria-Hungary).

Today, Tesla's birth house, together with the Serbian Orthodox church and the surrounding area represents a memorial complex with various exhibits of Tesla's inventions and a museum where the details of the inventor's life are shown.






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Smiljan is a village
Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
 in the mountainous region of Lika
Lika

Lika is a mountainous region in central Croatia, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Pljesevica mountain from the northeast....
, Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
. It is located seven kilometers west of Gospic
Gospic

Gospic is a town in the mountainous and sparsely populated region of Lika, Croatia. It is the Local government centre of Lika-Senj county....
, and fifteen kilometers from the Zagreb-Split highway; its population is 446 (2001). Smiljan is known best for being the birthplace of Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was an inventor and a mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Tesla was born in the village of Smiljan near the town of Gospic, in Croatia ....
 on July 10, 1856 (at that time part of Austria-Hungary).

Today, Tesla's birth house, together with the Serbian Orthodox church and the surrounding area represents a memorial complex with various exhibits of Tesla's inventions and a museum where the details of the inventor's life are shown. There is also a congress hall in a nearby building.

A nearby village of Smiljansko Polje ("Field of Smiljan") has 178 residents.