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Ervenik (Serbian Cyrillic: Ервеник)[1] is a village and municipality in Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia. There were 826 inhabitants (municipality) in 2021, and 97.19% of the population were Serbs, making Ervenik the municipality with the highest percentage of Serbs in Croatia. Population of the village was 243.[4]

Culture and monuments

There are several churches in the village:

  • Catholic Church of St. Michael the Archangel (first mentioned in 1402).
  • Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas from 1669.
  • Orthodox Church of St. Elijah from 1710 (Oton).

Also, in the vicinity of Mokro Polje (Ervenik), there are remains of the aristocratic Kegalj fort (Kegaljgrad), which was first mentioned in documents in 1433.

Settlements

The municipality of Ervenik includes 5 settlements:[5]











Ervenik Municipality

Population by census[6]
1857 1869 1880 1890 1900 1910 1921 1931 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011 2021
4,874 5,222 5,224 5,835 6,511 7,059 6,518 7,331 6,848 6,945 6,694 5,710 4,836 4,115 988 1,105 826

Note: Formed from part of the pre-war municipality of Knin.

Ervenik (village)

Population by census[6]
1857 1869 1880 1890 1900 1910 1921 1931 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011 2021
2,080 2,129 2,123 2,337 2,466 2,788 2,467 2,829 2,318 2,331 2,397 2,056 1,827 1,570 227 287 243

Note: From 1857 until 1961 the village of Ervenik was listed as two separate inhabited places, Donji Ervenik and Gornji Ervenik. The population from those years is the sum of the two villages.

Notable people

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