Slunj

Slunj is a city in the mountainous a part of Central Croatia, positioned alongside the important North-South route to the Adriatic Sea between Karlovac and Plitvice Lakes National Park, at the meeting of the rivers Korana and Slunjcica. Slunj has a populace of 1,674, with a total of five,076 people inside the municipality and is the cultural and social center of the vicinity of Kordun inside the region to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Administratively, the metropolis is a part of Karlovac County. Slunj is underdeveloped municipality which is statistically labeled because the First Category Area of Special State Concern by way of the Government of Croatia.

An vintage fortification of the Frankopans, built in the course of the wars against the Turks, Slovin changed into first referred to in the 12th century. The vintage castle become assets of the Frankopan circle of relatives for the reason that 15th century, joined by way of an vintage Franciscan monastery from the equal period. Later, this town has been known as Slunj. In the 16th century the town was ravaged by the Ottoman wars and became a navy outpost of the Croatian Military Frontier, however through the quit of the seventeenth century the settlement changed into rebuilt into the Slunj because it exists these days.