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Pocitelj

Southern Europe

Pocitelj is a historic walled settlement and village in the municipality of Capljina, in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the left bank of the Neretva river along the main road between Mostar and Metkovic. Its fortified nucleus is protected as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina and functions as an open air museum, while the settlement itself remains inhabited, recording a population of 799 people, mostly Bosniaks and Croats, at the 2013 census. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Population
799 1
Founding Year
1444 to 1448 2
Sources
1. GeoNames: Počitelj
GeoNames geonameid 3193102 (Počitelj), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source
2. Pocitelj
  • Source text, founding-year-range-start: 1444
    The earliest mention of or recorded reference to Počitelj is in charters of King Alfonso V and Fridrich III from 1444 to 1448.
  • Source text, founding-year-range-end: 1448
    The earliest mention of or recorded reference to Počitelj is in charters of King Alfonso V and Fridrich III from 1444 to 1448.
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Pocitelj (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
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