Municipality of Udbina
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Udbina Удбина (Serbian) |
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Catholic Church of Croatian Martyrs was built in 2010 in honour of those who died in the Battle of Krbava
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 The Udbina municipality within Lika-Senj County |
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 Udbina
Location in Croatia
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| Coordinates: 44°31′50″N 15°45′56″E / 44.5306°N 15.7656°E | |
| Country |
 Croatia
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| County | Lika-Senj County |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Ivan Pešut (HDZ) |
| • Municipal Council |
11 members
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| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 1,874 |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| Website | www |
Udbina (Serbian Cyrillic: Удбина) is a town and a municipality in historical Krbava, in the Lika region of Croatia. It is an administratively part of in the Lika-Senj County.
The village is located in the large karst field called Krbava. The field has a small airport, the only one in Lika.
At first, Udbina was known as Civitas Corbaviae (Town of Krbava) and was the seat of a Diocese of Corbavia from 1185, when it was separated from the Archdiocese of Split, until 1460, when the diocese seat moved to the Krbava's former canonical territory of Modruš due to Ottoman military campaigns in the area. The Bishop's Court was built during Bishop Bonifacio in the 14th century. In the Middle Ages, Udbina was a seat (Latin: castrum) of the historic Krbava County. The name Udbina was mentioned for the first time in 1493, following the Battle of Krbava Field in which the Croats under ban Emerik Derenčin and the Frankopans suffered defeat from the Ottoman Empire.
The medieval fortified town, from which only the remains were preserved, was governed in 1509 by Ban Ivan Karlović and between 1527 and 1689 by the Turks as part of the Eyalet of Bosnia. Ancient tombstones were discovered near the remains of the Church of St. Mark Graveyard (Named after the folk tradition that martyr saint and several heroes of the Battle of Krbava were berried on the site), which was a shrine with a triangular ending destroyed by the Serbs in 1942. In the vicinity, near , there are ruins of the old Church of St. Augustine (quadrangular sanctuary with a bell tower).
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