Benkovac
| Benkovac | |
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| Town | |
Street in Benkovac
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 Benkovac
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| Coordinates: 44°02′04″N 15°36′46″E / 44.03444°N 15.61278°E | |
| Country |
 Croatia
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| County |
 Zadar
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| Government | |
| • Mayor | Branko Kutija (HDZ) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 514 km2 (198 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 11,026 |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Website | www |
Benkovac (pronounced [běːnkovat͡s]) is a town and municipality in the interior of Zadar County, Croatia.
Benkovac is located where the plain of Ravni Kotari and the karstic plateau of Bukovica meet, 20 km from the town of Biograd na Moru and 30 km from Zadar. The Zagreb-Split motorway and Zadar-Knin railway pass through the town. It borders the municipalities of Novigrad, Posedarje, Obrovac, Lišane Ostrovičke, Kistanje and Stankovci.
According to the 2011 census, the municipality had 11,026 inhabitants of which 84.9% were Croats and 13.8% were Serbs. Before the Croatian War of Independence, Serbs made up about 57%, and Croats about 41%, however Croats only held 18% of the jobs in the local government, which led to high tensions in the 1990s. During the Operation Storm (Oluja), almost all of the Serbs left the town, and after the war they were replaced by expelled Bosnian Croat settlers.
According to the Austrian Census in 1900, the town of Benkovac consisted of 356 Catholics and 156 Orthodox, with area surrounding Benkovac it included 8,119 Catholics and 5,981 Orthodox. [1] The 1910 census recorded a total of 810 residents, 388 of which were Catholic and 422 Orthodox. Both censuses were conducted according to religion and language (Serbo-Croatian). The population of Benkovac itself is 2,622 (census 2001), the rest is distributed in 38 villages surrounding it.
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