Sumartin
Sign in to saveSumartin (, previously known as Sv. Martin) is a port village in Croatia on the island of Brač. It is the youngest village on the island of Brač and administratively belongs to the Municipality of Selca. According to the 2011 census, it has a population of 491. The village was founded on 11 November 1646—the feast day of Saint Martin—by the refugees from the Dalmatian coast and Bosnia and Herzegovina who fled from the Ottomans. It is connected by the D113 highway and by ferry.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Sumartin
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- Village
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- Sumartin, Brač, Croatia 007.jpg
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- Croatia
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- Location of Sumartin in Croatia
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- bottom
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- Country
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- Region
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- Split-Dalmatia County
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- County
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- Brač
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- Municipality
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 6.1
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 7
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2021
- Settlement.population_total
- 477
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- auto
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
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- Population
- 477
- Area
- 6.1
- Elevation
- 0
- Image
- Jadrolinija ferry Ero in port of Sumartin.jpg
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- Sumartin
- postal code
- 21426
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Sumartin (, previously known as Sv. Martin) is a port village in Croatia on the island of Brač. It is the youngest village on the island of Brač and administratively belongs to the Municipality of Selca. According to the 2011 census, it has a population of 491. The village was founded on 11 November 1646—the feast day of Saint Martin—by the refugees from the Dalmatian coast and Bosnia and Herzegovina who fled from the Ottomans. It is connected by the D113 highway and by ferry.
== History == Sumartin was established at the time of the Cretan War (1645–69), also known as the War of Candia, in 1646, when a group of Franciscan friars accompanied by a number of refugees reached the easternmost tip of the island of Brač by boats as they were fleeing from Makarska Riviera due to Ottoman raids. The newly formed village was established around the already existing abandoned small church of St. Martin which had been previously damaged but repaired by the refugees upon their arrival.
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