Novigrad

Novigrad is a town and a municipality in Istria County in western Croatia. In Croatian it is also occasionally called Novigrad Istarski to distinguish it from 3 other Croatian cities of the same name. Novigrad is about on a small peninsula at the western coast of Istria, kilometres north of the mouth of the river Mirna and a few 25 km south of the border with Slovenia. At the 2011 census the town proper had a population of 2,622, whilst the whole municipality which also includes four nearby villages had 4,345 population. 66 percentage of populace had been ethnic Croats whilst the biggest minority institution had been Istrian Italians.

There turned into an historic city in the extensive location of what is now Novigrad, which turned into known as Aemona. In the fifth-6th centuries Novigrad become called Neapolis. From the early Middle Ages and proper up until 1828 it become the seat of the Diocese of Novigrad, which has been recognized with the Ancient see of Aemona and nominally restored as Latin Catholic titular see under both names. From 1270 it changed into under the guideline of the Venetian Republic, which gave it the Italian name of Cittanova, until Venice fell in the late 18th century.