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Zalužnica () is a village in the Gacka valley in Lika-Senj County, Croatia. It is located around the main road between the market town of Otočac and the Plitvice Lakes National Park. Over the last 100 years its population was around 700–1000 people but was de-populated in 1995 during the war that saw the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. A handful of old people remained in the village and a few new people have subsequently settled in the last 10 years. The village was probably established in the 17th century by peoples migrating from the Ottoman Empire in a territory then under the control of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The existing village church dates to 1705. During both the late 16th and 17th centuries the Ottomans had major offensives northwards. Many people fled ahead of them who were predominantly of the Christian Orthodox faith. The ethnicity of these peoples has been debated extensively but clearly from a simple review of family names they were a mix of mainly Serbs, Vlachs and various other minorities from Ottoman territories to the south. They settled in Lika and surrounding counties (such as Krbava); this was allowed by the Austro-Hungarian authorities to create a bulwark against future Ottoman incursions. The Austro-Hungarian Army later maintained a presence in Otočac recruiting from both the Catholic Croat and Orthodox Serb communities in the surrounding area. This included the Otočac Border Regiment Nr.2 in the mid-19th century and the XIII Militärterritorial (Korps) bezirk, Otočac at the start of World War I. ==Population== A survey from 1895〔Političko i sudbeno razdieljenje Kralj. Hrvatske i Slavonije i repertorij prebivališta po stanju od 31. svibnja 1895〕 had the population at 1139 with 178 households. This was made up of the main village plus some smaller settlements, namely Draga Brakusa, Čelina, Gola Brdo and Cvijanovic kuca. This population probably represents the pinnacle in numbers as in the first decade of the 20th century many people left for the USA with millions of others from Europe,〔See Ellis Island online database〕 then there was the impact of the two World Wars (death and migration), from the early 1960s many younger people migrated to the cities and finally the wholesale migration of the village to Serbia in 1995 due to war. According to the 2011 census, there were 220 inhabitants living in 157 housing units. The village family names were in many respects clan orientated, which possibly belies much of the peoples origin as Serbian and Bosnian. Over time, the composition of family names would have also changed but a significant portion of the village had the family name of Hinić (Hinich), which is attested from the earliest time to the end of the village. Other family names included Brakus, Borovac, Uzelac, Vukovojac. Although families of the same name were related, many were not (in living memory) and many households adopted or were given nicknames ('spitznamen' in the local language) to differentiate themselves. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zalužnica」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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