Brinje

County County A county is a jurisdiction of local government in certain modern nations. Historically in mainland Europe, the original French term, comté, and its equivalents in other languages denoted a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of a count A county is a jurisdiction of local government in certain...	Lika-Senj Lika-Senj County Lika-Senj county is a county in Croatia that includes most of the Lika region and some northern coastline of the Adriatic near the town of Senj, including the northern part of the Pag island...
Location	45.03°N 15.13°E
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Brinje is a municipality in Lika-Senj County

Lika-Senj County

Lika-Senj county is a county in Croatia that includes most of the Lika region and some northern coastline of the Adriatic near the town of Senj, including the northern part of the Pag island...

, Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

, located about 35 miles from Gospić

Gospic

Gospić is a town in the mountainous and sparsely populated region of Lika, Croatia. It is the administrative centre of Lika-Senj county. Gospić is located near the Lika River in the middle of a karst field....

. According to 2001 census, Brinje had 4,108 inhabitants, out of which 92% were Croats

Croats

Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...

. The municipality is part of Lika

Lika

Lika is a mountainous region in central Croatia, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Plješevica mountain from the northeast. On the north-west end Lika is bounded by Ogulin-Plaški basin, and on the south-east by the Malovan pass...

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The town is formed around a castle called Sokolac, which contains one of the most well preserved Gothic

Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....

 chapels in Croatia, St. Marys, which dates back to the 14th century. The Sokolac Castle

Sokolac Castle

Sokolac Castle is a castle in Brinje, Croatia. It is named after the Croatian word for hawk , which appears on the town's coat of arms.-History:It dates back to medieval times, while the town was held by the noble Frankopan and Gorjanski families...

 in the town is named after the Croatian word for hawk (sokol), which appears on the town's coat of arms.

Brinje's history dates back to medieval times, while the town was held by the noble Frankopan

Frankopan

The Frankopans are a Croatian noble family. Also called Frankapan, Frangepán in Hungarian, and Frangipani in Italian.The Frankopan family is the leading princely Croatian aristocratic family which dates back to the 12th Century and even earlier to Roman times...

 and Gorjanski

Gorjanski

Garay or Garai were a Hungarian noble family in the Kingdom of Hungary, a branch of the Dorozsma clan, with notable members in the 14th and 15th centuries. They were lords of Csesznek.-Name and origin:...

 families. Brinje was important medieval fortified city held by Frenkopan family.
It is some 60 km north of Gospić

Gospic

Gospić is a town in the mountainous and sparsely populated region of Lika, Croatia. It is the administrative centre of Lika-Senj county. Gospić is located near the Lika River in the middle of a karst field....

, on once important road, the "Josephina

Josephina (road)

The Josephina is a historic road in Croatia that connects Senj and thus the Adriatic coast and Karlovac and the Pannonian plain...

", passing from the hinterland through the Kapela pass towards the coast in Senj

Senj

Senj , German Zengg, Hungarian Zeng and Italian Segna) is the oldest town on the upper Adriatic, and it was founded in the time before the Romans some 3000 years ago on the hill Kuk. It was the center of the Illyrian tribe Iapydes. The current settlement is situated at the foot of the slopes Mala...

. The new highway that is built brought much needed prosperity to Brinje.

Villages

• Brinje - 1,708
• Glibodol - 41
• Jezerane
  Jezerane
  Jezerane is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D23 highway....
  
   - 375
• Križ Kamenica - 286
• Križpolje
  Križpolje
  Križpolje is a village in the Lika-Senj County, Croatia. The settlement is administered as a part of Brinje municipality.According to national census of 2001, population of the settlement is 655....
  
   - 655
• Letinac - 222
• Lipice
  Lipice
  Lipice is a village in the municipality of Brinje in Lika-Senj County, Croatia, located about from Gospić. According to 2001 census, Lipice had 254 inhabitants, of which 100% were Croats.- Population :...
  
   - 254
• Prokike - 122
• Rapain Klanac - 10
• Stajnica - 301
• Vodoteč - 98
• Žuta Lokva
  Žuta Lokva
  Žuta Lokva is a village in Croatia....
  
  - 37

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