Knin

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Knin

Total population

8,262

Coordinates44.04°, 16.20°

Demographic figures from Croatian Bureau of Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Knin is a city in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia, located in the Dalmatian hinterland near the source of the river Krka, an important traffic junction on the rail and road routes between Zagreb and Split. Knin rose to prominence twice in history, as the capital of both the medieval Kingdom of Croatia and briefly of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina within the newly independent Republic of Croatia for the duration of the Croatian War of Independence from 1991 to 1995.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.