Promina is a municipality in Šibenik-Knin county

Šibenik-Knin County

Šibenik-Knin County is a county in Croatia, located in north-central Dalmatia. Its center is Šibenik; other notable towns are Knin, Drniš and Skradin....

, Croatia

Croatia

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. Oklaj

Oklaj

Oklaj is a village in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia.It is located in inland of the Dalmatia Adriatic coastline, about 15 km south of Knin and 14 km northwest of Drniš. It is situated between the southwest slopes of Promina mountain and the southern bank of the Krka river...

 is the administration centre of the municipality.

Population

In the 2011 census, it had the following settlements

Naselje

Naselje is a settlement in Croatia, usually translated as settlement. It is the smallest unit of Croatian territory. Individual settlements are by and large referred to as selo , while naselje is a statistical and administrative category. The units of local government in Croatia, cities and...

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• Bobodol
  Bobodol
  Bobodol is a settlement in Croatia, situated south of Knin and north of Oklaj in the region known as Dalmatia. It is administratively located in the Municipality of Promina in the Šibenik-Knin County. The name Bobodol means the valley of Bob, which is a small shrub fruit. The village can date...
  
  , population 22
• Bogatić
  Bogatic
  Bogatić is a little town and municipality located in the Mačva District of Serbia. In 2011, the population of the town is 6,470, while population of the municipality is 28,879.-History:...
  
  , population 20
• Čitluk
  Citluk
  Čitluk is a town and municipality located in Herzegovina, in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a municipality of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
  
  , population 113
• Lukar, population 77
• Ljubotić, population 26
• Matase, population 51
• Mratovo, population 55
• Oklaj
  Oklaj
  Oklaj is a village in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia.It is located in inland of the Dalmatia Adriatic coastline, about 15 km south of Knin and 14 km northwest of Drniš. It is situated between the southwest slopes of Promina mountain and the southern bank of the Krka river...
  
  , population 461
• Puljane, population 51
• Razvođe, population 169
• Suknovci, population 61

In the 2001 census, 96.89% declared themselves Croats

Croats

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In the 1991 census, 2,574 residents lived in Promina district, of which 85 per cent Croats and 14 per cent Serbs.

History

In the Croatian War of Independence

Croatian War of Independence

The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between forces loyal to the government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia —and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army and local Serb forces, with the JNA ending its combat...

, members of Serb (ir)regular units ("Chetniks

Chetniks

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") and irregular SAO Krajina

SAO Krajina

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 Militia or Martić

Milan Martic

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's Unit, along with the soldiers of the Yugoslav People's Army

Yugoslav People's Army

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9th Corps from Knin occupied Promina, and forcibly displaced cca 2,000 Croatian civilians. The remaining population of Croatian nationality was terrorized. Members of the occupying self-proclaimed authorities placed explosive devices (mines, hand grenades...) at places where they expected the passage of Croatian civilians (in front of houses and barns, in gardens, in hay-stacks...). Croatian owned family houses were ransacked daily, Croatian owned property looted. Croatian male civilians were groundlessly taken to Knin and imprisoned. After months of imprisonment, some of them were released, and then they were arrested again and returned to the Knin prison. Most of the Croatian owned family houses were looted, and then blown up or burnt down.

Five Catholic churches were set on fire and destroyed in Promina, one church was devastated. 36 Croatian civilians were killed in the period between September
1991 and December 1993.