Skradin
Sign in to saveSkradin is a small town in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia. It is located near the Krka river and at the entrance to the Krka National Park, from Šibenik and from Split. The main attraction of the park, Slapovi Krke, is a series of waterfalls, the biggest of which, Skradinski buk, was named after Skradin.
Key facts
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- Skradin
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- Grad Skradin Town of Skradin
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- Town
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- Krka13Chorvatsko9.JPG
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- View of Skradin
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- Croatia
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- Location of Skradin within Croatia
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- Country
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- Region
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- Dalmatia
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- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- border|23px Šibenik-Knin
- Settlement.leader_party
- HDZ
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Antonijo Brajković
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 184.2
- Settlement.area_urban_km2
- 1.1
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2021
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Skradin under Šubić rule
- Decline and Ottoman conquest
- Population
- Notable people
- References
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Skradin is a small town in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia. It is located near the Krka river and at the entrance to the Krka National Park, from Šibenik and from Split. The main attraction of the park, Slapovi Krke, is a series of waterfalls, the biggest of which, Skradinski buk, was named after Skradin.
==History== During Antiquity, the city was known as Scardon and Scardona, a name attested in the writings of Strabo and Procopius (), Pliny the Elder () and Ptolemy ().
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Skradin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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