KRK

Otok Krk (talijanski Veglia) je uz susjedni otok Cres najveći (405,78 km2) od 1246 otoka koliko ih ima Hrvatska. Administrativno sjedište otoka je grad Krk. Otok se nalazi u Primorsko-goranskoj županiji. Na otoku se nalazi Zračna luka Rijeka.

Od 19. srpnja 1980. godine otok Krk povezan je s kopnom putem Krčkog mosta (ex Titov Most), čiji su radovi započeli u srpnju 1976. sponzorstvom samog Tita.

Naselja na otoku Krku
Krk je hrvatski otok sa najviše naseljenih mjesta. Ima ih ukupno 68. Neka od njih su:

Grad Krk, Punat, Njivice, Baška, Dobrinj, Valbiska, Malinska, Porat, Vantačići, Zidarići, Turčići, Kremenići, Žgombići, Rasopasno, Vrbnik, Bogovići, Sveti Vid, Šilo, Čižići, Klimno, Sužan, Tribulje, Sv.Ivan, Gabonjin, Kras, Polje, Gostinjac, Risika, Žestilac, Garica, Kornić, Stara Baška...

 

KRK

Krk (Italian Veglia, German: Vegl; Latin Curicta) is a Croatian island in the northern Adriatic Sea, located near Rijeka in the Bay of Kvarner and part of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar county.

Krk is, together with Cres, the largest Adriatic island, with an area of 405.78 km², and also the most populous one, with numerous towns and villages totalling 17,860 (2001). Although recent student surveys pointed that Cres is the largest Croatian island, most recent official data show they are the same size.

Towns
The municipalities and larger settlements on Krk include:

The eponymous city of Krk, with 5,491 inhabitants (2001), located at 45°13′N, 14°32′E.
Omišalj (Italian: Castelmuschio; German: Moschau): 2,998 people
Malinska-Dubašnica (Italian: Malinsca; German: Durischal): 2,726 people
Punat (Italian: Ponte; German: Sankt Maria): 1,876 people
Dobrinj (Italian: Dobrigno; German: Dobrauen): 1,970 people
Baška (Italian: Besca; German: Weschke): 1,554 people
Vrbnik (Italian: Verbenico; German: Vörbnick): 1,245 people
Boachen - Gabonjin Krassitz - Krašica Sankt Anton - Anton Sankt Foska - Pinezići Sankt Maria - Glavotok Sankt Niklas - Valbiska Sniewitz - Njivice

Economics and infrastructure

Krk detail
Krk Bridge
Town of Krk
VrbnikKrk is located rather near the mainland and has been connected to it via a 1,430 meter two-arch concrete bridge since 1980, one of the longest concrete bridges in the world. Due to the proximity to the city of Rijeka, Omišalj also hosts the Rijeka International Airport as well as an oil refinery (related to the Rijeka port tanker facilities). A monastery lies on the small island of Košljun in a bay off the coast of Krk.

Krk is a popular tourist destination, because of the situation and proximity to Slovenia, southern Germany, Austria, and northern Italy. Since the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, many tourists have appeared from Hungary, Romania, and other former Eastern Bloc countries.

History
The island has been inhabited since before 10th century BCE. The Romans called the island Curicta. During the Roman Civil War, the Bay of Curicta was the scene of sea combat between the fleets of Caesar and Pompey.

Over a thousand years later, the island was the center of the Vegliot dialect of the Dalmatian language. Krk was also the seat of medieval bishops and important nobility, the Frankopans.

Culture and religion
Krk has historically been a center of Croatian culture. Various literature in Glagolitic alphabet was created and in part preserved on Krk (notably the Baška Tablet, the oldest preserved text in Croatian).

Krk belonged to the Republic of Venice during the Middle Ages until its dissolution, when its destinies followed those of Istria, thus becoming part of Italy after World War I. After World War II, it became a part of Yugoslavia.

Catholic bishopric
A Catholic diocese, called Veglia, existed, under Austrian rule suffragan of Görz-Gradisca. Parallel to the Dinaric Alps are a number of rocky islands, separated from the mainland by a deep, though narrow, strait. The largest of them is Veglia, which in the year 1000 had a bishop, Vitalis, who was preset at a synod in Spoleto. Pope Eugene III made it a suffragan of Zara, but since 1828 it has been under Görz. Bartholomaus Bozarich was present at the assembly of bishops in 1849 and his successor was a member of the First Vatican Council. Although Veglia is a triple see, it contained in the early 20th Century only 809,000 Catholics, 95 secular priests, 64 regulars, and 68 nuns. Under bishop Antun Mahnić (1896-1920) the Altslawi academy was established in 1902, and existed until 1927.

Still more ancient is the see of Ossero (Lusin, Absor, Auxerensis), to whose bishop Pope John VIII wrote in 870. The fifty-fifth bishop, Raccamarich, was transferred to Cattaro in 1818, and Ossero and Veglia were united.
The See of Arbe (Scardona) is even more ancient. Its first known bishop attended a council at Salona in 530. The fifty-eighth bishop, Galzigna (d. in 1823), was also the last, as his diocese was merged in that of Veglia.