Baljci, Ružić

Baljci
Village
Baljci Location of Baljci in Croatia
Coordinates: 43°49′N 16°18′E / 43.817°N 16.300°E / 43.817; 16.300Coordinates: 43°49′N 16°18′E / 43.817°N 16.300°E / 43.817; 16.300
County	Šibenik-Knin County
Municipality	Ružić
Population  (2001)[1]
• Total	2
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Baljci, also referred to as Baljke, is an uninhabited village in the Dalmatian hinterland, southeast of Knin in the Šibenik-Knin County. Baljci lies underneath the Svilaja mountain and near the source of the river Čikola.

History[]

Serbian-Orthodox church and cemetery gates in Baljci

Baljci was founded at the end of the 15th century by vlachs coming from Eastern Herzegovina, who essentially belonged to the Mirilovići clan. These people, most of whom where of Serbian Orthodox faith, were settled there by the Turks after the previous population had almost entirely fled to the Republic of Venice and the Kingdom of Hungary. The name of the village itself was probably chosen in reference to Baljci in Herzegovina, from where some of the new settlers came from, as for the neighboring settlement of Mirilović, today known as Mirlović Polje. Over a few decades, Baljci was definitely established on the territory of a former medieval village known in historical sources as Suhovare. Under this former settlement name, Baljci was included in the Ottoman nahiye of Petrovo Polje, itself part of the Sanjak of Klis.

At the end of the 17h century, after the War of Candia, Baljci and the neighboring villages were annexed by the Republic of Venice. New settlers came to the village in the 18th century, which also saw the building of an Orthodox church dedicated to Saint John the Baptist in 1730.

The population of the municipality was 470 in 1991, with 453 (96.38%) declaring themselves Serbs. The village was part of the before the Yugoslav Wars. As a Serbian village, it became part of the Republic of Serbian Krajina. Since the Croats Operation Storm in 1995, the village of Baljci is uninhabited.

Culture[]

The village krsna slava (Serbian Orthodox patron saint veneration) was that of St. John the Baptist (Jovanjdan), on July 7. The Serbian Orthodox was built in 1730.

Anthropology[]

Families[]

Families that lived in the village prior to 1991.

• , Serbs, slava of St. Nicholas (Nikoljdan)
• Bašić, Serbs, Nikoljdan
• , Serbs, Nikoljdan
• , Serbs, slave Sv. Nikola
• Vidović, Croats
• , Serbs, Nikoljdan
• Gegić, Serbs, slava of Lazarus Saturday (Lazareva Subota)
• , Serbs, slava of St. George (Đurđevdan)
• , Croats
• Gutić, Serbs, Đurđevdan
• Janković, Serbs, Lazareva Subota
• , Serbs, Lazareva Subota
• , Serbs, Lazareva Subota
• Milanković, Serbs, Lazareva Subota
• , Serbs,
• Obradović, Serbs, Nikoljdan
• Poplašen, Serbs,
• , Serbs, Đurđevdan
• Romac, Serbs,
• Tarlać, Serbs, Nikoljdan
• , Serbs, Nikoljdan
• Tošić, Serbs, Đurđevdan

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