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Čara is a village on the island of Korčula in Croatia. Korčula the island, is part of the Dalmatian coast and it belongs to the Dubrovnik-Neretva county. It has a population of 566 residents.〔(Croatian Census 2001 (Popis stanovništva 2001) )〕 The village is situated twenty-five kilometers west of the old town of Korčula and is just above a field Čarsko Polje.〔(Čara-Korčulainfo.com )〕 In the center of the village is the parish church of St Peter, which was built in the 16th century. The church has a painting by the Renaissance Venetian painter Leandro Bassano 〔(Dalmatia By Dmitar J. Čulić )〕 which is called ''"Visitation of Jesus Christ to His Disciples"''. The painting is placed above the church altar. Čara is 13 km west of Pupnat and 3.35 km east of Smokvica. Čara is part of a wine growing region and it produces Pošip and Marastina dry wines.〔(Čara-Korčula.net )〕 Cultivation of olives is also part of Čara's rich agriculture pallet. The wine cellar is located south of Čara towards the bays of Zavalatica and Zitna. The bays have become a tourist attraction in recent modern times. Zavalatica was a summer resort of the Croatian poet Petar Kanavelić. ==History== The Greeks established two colonies on Korčula in the 6th century BC 〔An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Center for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen-2005.〕 and the 3rd century BC (Lumbarda Psephisma). There were Greek villas on the island and it is believed that the field below Čara, called Čarsko Polje (Croatian/pronounced Charsko), its name is of ancient Greek origins. The Great Migrations of the 6th and 7th centuries brought the Slavic tribes invasions into the old Roman province of Dalmatia,〔JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Dalmatia." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. Oxford University Press. 2005. Encyclopedia.com〕 which then was under Byzantine rule. The Croatians arrived along with other Slavic tribes and the Avars.〔(A History of the Croatian People by Francis Ralph Preveden,1955 )〕 They settled in the region. It is believed that the islands off the coast were settled by the Croatians at a later stage. Korčula was settled by Croatians in the 8th century. Čara is one of the oldest villages on the island of Korčula and as a settlement was established in the 8th and 9th century. Christianization of the Croatian rural inhabitants of the island Korčula begun in the 11th century (Chapel of Saints Cosmas and Damian/Kuzma i Damjan).〔(Chapel of Saint Kuzma and Damjan )〕 According to recent studies done at the University of Zadar, Croatians accepted Christianity fully in the 14th and 15th Century.〔University of Zadar-Sociogeographic Transformation of the Western Part of Korčula Island by Lena Mirosevic-2008/page 161〕 The small church of Our Lady in Čarsko Polje is mentioned in a manuscript of 1329. Tradition holds that in 1686 ''Our Lady'' appeared to a shepherd girl on the south side of Čara and since then pilgrims have come to this site every year, especially on July 25. In the church there is a painted relief of alabaster, of English origin, from the 14th or 15th century, with four scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary (the Annunciation, the birth of Jesus, the gift of the Three Kings, and the Coronation).〔Otok Korčula, by Marinko Gjivoje, 2nd ed., Zagreb, 1969, page 344.〕 Korčula is mentioned during Republic of Venice's eastern expansion of Dalmatia.〔(Venice, a Maritime Republic By Frederic Chapin Lane )〕 In the late 10th century Pietro II Orseolo the ''Doge of Venice'' attacked the Neretvian pirates and in the process secured Korčula. The Korčula Statute from 1214 () mentions Čara. In the Statute there are recommendations on the defense of the old town of Korčula as well as Blato, Smokvica, Pupnat and Žrnovo. Čara used to be called Hara ((ギリシア語:Χαρα)). The Austria-Hungary census registered Čara's name as Kcara. 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「Čara」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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