Udbina

Udbina Удбина (Serbian)
Church of Croatian Martyrs built in Udbina in honour of the people who died in the Battle of Krbava.
The Udbina municipality within Lika-Senj County
Udbina Location in Croatia
Coordinates: 44°31′50″N 15°45′56″E / 44.5306°N 15.7656°E / 44.5306; 15.7656
Country	Croatia
County	Lika-Senj County
Government
• Mayor	Ivan Pešut (HDZ)
Population (2011)
• Total	1,874
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)

Udbina (Serbian Cyrillic: Удбина) is a village and a municipality 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.

The Krbava field and Udbina itself was the location of a medieval bishopric and the Battle of Krbava field of 9 September 1493, where the Croats under ban Emerik Derenčin (Hungarian: Imre Derencsényi) and the Frankopans suffered one of the major defeats at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. Udbina was managed by Ottomans between 1527-1689 (nominally to 1699) and included to the Sanjak of Lika in the Eyalet of Bosnia.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, Udbina was part of the Lika-Krbava County of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. According to the 1910 census, the town of Udbina was inhabited by a Croat majority and Serb minority; 1,317 were Croats and 621 were Serbs. In 1931, the Udbina municipality had a Serb majority.

During World War II, Udbina was part of the Independent State of Croatia. In December 1942, the Croatian population was expelled from the town. St Nicholas Roman Catholic church was subsequently destroyed. Many local Serbs were killed by Ustaše during the war. The Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas (filial of the Church of the Holy Transfiguration of ) was also destroyed during World War II. St Nicholas Roman Catholic church was destroyed in 1947.