Kukar
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Kukar (in Serbian Cyrillic: Кукар) is a small village in Croatia located approximately 3 km from the town of Vrlika under the mountain Dinara. It is part of the Vrlika municipality, within Split-Dalmatia County.
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[edit] History
The history of the village of Kukar is closely tied with the history of the town and municipality of Vrlika. The village is named after the Croat tribe Kukari (singular Kukar), that had a privilege to choose the Croatian king (besides 11 other privileged Croat tribes).[1][2][3]
[edit] Demography
It is populated by both Orthodox Serbs and Roman Catholic Croats. Since 1995, few villagers mostly elderly pensioners, both Serbs and Croats have returned to Kukar.
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