Nine Croatian Towns from Novi Marof to Solin in Order of Recorded Latitude, North to South

Recorded latitude 46.167 degrees north, the northernmost stop. Novi Marof is a town in Varazdin County, in the Hrvatsko Zagorje region of north western Croatia, and the 2021 census gave the town a population of 11,795. It lies at the junction of state roads D3 and D24 and connects to the A4 motorway and the R201 railway. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it was a district capital within Varazdin County of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

Recorded latitude 45.833 degrees north. Virovitica is a city in the Slavonia region of Croatia, near the Hungarian border along the Drava river, and the capital of Virovitica-Podravina County, with 19,302 residents in the city proper at the 2021 census. It was first mentioned in 1234 and was part of the Ottoman Empire from 1552 until the Habsburg conquest of 1684. The city sits at an elevation of 122 meters.

Recorded latitude 45.700 degrees north. Slatina is a town in the Slavonia region of Croatia, in Virovitica-Podravina County, with 11,503 residents at the 2021 census. It lies where the Drava valley meets the foothills of Papuk mountain at an elevation of 127 meters, about 29 kilometers southeast of Virovitica. Its name comes from the Croatian word for salt lake, though no such lake exists there today.

Recorded latitude 45.570 degrees north. Popovača is a town in the Moslavina region of central Croatia, within Sisak-Moslavina County. The 2021 census recorded 10,255 residents in the town proper, down from a peak of about 14,400 in the 1950s. Its recorded elevation is 125 meters, and the town retains examples of traditional wooden architecture from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Recorded latitude 45.320 degrees north. Novigrad is a town on a small peninsula on the western coast of Istria, about two kilometers north of the mouth of the Mirna River and roughly twenty five kilometers south of the Slovenian border. The medieval peninsula settlement preserves Venetian Gothic architecture and fortified town walls with battlements and round towers, and the town maintains official Croatian-Italian bilingualism.

Recorded latitude 45.274 degrees north. Kraljevica is a town in the Kvarner region of western Croatia, in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County between Rijeka and Crikvenica, with 4,066 residents in the town proper at the 2021 census. It is dominated by two medieval castles and a church associated with Croatian noble families, and it is known for a shipyard that has built ships for the Croatian navy. It lies near the entrance to the Krk Bridge.

Recorded latitude 44.444 degrees north. Pag is the largest town on the island of Pag, in Zadar County, on the Adriatic coast, with 2,343 residents in its urban core at the 2021 census. The settlement was sold to Venice in 1403, and in 1443 its inhabitants relocated to build a new town at the present site, laid out according to contemporary Venetian urban planning.

Recorded latitude 43.539 degrees north. Salona was an ancient city on the Dalmatian coast of present-day Croatia, near modern Split, that served as the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia. It grew from an Illyrian and later Greek settlement into a major provincial capital with a large amphitheater and extensive fortifications. The city was destroyed in the early seventh century amid Avar and Slavic incursions, and its ruins remain one of the most extensive archaeological sites on the Adriatic coast.

Recorded latitude 43.532 degrees north, the southernmost stop. Solin is a town and suburb of Split in Split-Dalmatia County, situated on the Adriatic Sea at the mouth of the Jadro River, with a population of 24,862 at the 2021 census. It occupies the site of ancient Salona, and the modern town has grown around its Roman era archaeological remains.