Otocac

Otocac is a town in Croatia, former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see. It lies inside the northwestern a part of Lika region, inside the Gacka river valley. The populace of the municipality become nine,778 in 2011, most people of whom were Croats. Otocac become named after the early Croatian parish.

The textual content of the famous Baska Tablet says that the church of St. Nicholas in Otocac turned into part of the order community with the Church of St. Lucy, Jurandvor at the island of Krk. From 1300 on, it belonged to the estate of the Frankopan own family. Sigismund Frankopan 1461 to 1535 based a diocese there. The agreement with a defence tower, at a bend inside the river Gacka, turned into included by means of a towered castle. After the fort's demolition in 1829, most effective parts remained preserved. To offer a more secure defence, a Renaissance generation citadel turned into constructed in 1619, with a triangular format of cylindrical towers. The call of the town is Otocsan in Hungarian, Ottocio in Italian and Ottocium in Latin.