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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.

Facts
Population
799 1
Founding Year
1444 to 1448 2
Elevation Band
Lowland 3
Climate Zone
Temperate 4
Time Zone
UTC+01:00 5
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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3. Open-Meteo: Open-Meteo Elevation API: elevation at Pocitelj coordinates
Open-MeteoJSON elevation
Quote, JSON elevation
"elevation": [ 91.0 ]
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4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 43.25, 17.75
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 43.25, 17.75
43.25 17.75 Cfb
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5. GeoNames: Počitelj - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3193102, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
Quote, cities500 record 3193102, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
43.1343 17.73342 P PPL BA 01 799 90 Europe/Sarajevo
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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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