Brovinje
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| Coordinates: 44°58′7″N 14°7′24″E / 44.96861°N 14.12333°ECoordinates: 44°58′7″N 14°7′24″E / 44.96861°N 14.12333°E | |
| Country | Croatia |
| County | Istria County |
| Municipality | Rasa, Istria County |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 81 |
Brovinje (Italian: Brovinje, Italian: Brovigne) is a small settlement/hamlet with a little more than 50 houses in 1950. As of the 2011 Croatian census, it had a population of 81. It is located in the Labinština peninsula of Istria County, Croatia. Overlooking the Gulf of Kvarner in the northern Adriatic Seaincluding the island of Croatian: Cres, Italian: Cherso. It is located 13 km south-east of Labin and 3 km north of Koromačno/Valmazzinghi. The first written record with the name Brovinje is recorded in the old St. Lucia church books on birth, marriages and deaths in 1705 which are held in Pazin, Istria. Brovinje is a hamlet which is under the Raša municipality.
During the Austria-Hungary occupation the Austrian Littoral was established. The littoral was officially the Trieste Province, one of the two provinces of the kingdom. The other being German: Laibach, Croatian: Ljubljana. One of the two Provinces was subdivided into four districts: Gorizia, Eastern Istria and the Quarnero Islands, Trieste and Western Istria and Trieste city.
Around 1824 the Littoral was reorganized into two subdivisions: Istria with the capitol German: Mitterburg, Italian: Pisino, Croatian: Pazin and Gorizia with Trieste and its immediate surroundings under the direct control of the crown and separate from the local administrative structure.
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