Town of Korčula

Korčula is a town on the east coast of the of , in Croatia, in the Adriatic.
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  • Type: Town with 2,660 residents
  • Description: town and settlement in Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia
  • Also known as: “Corcyra Nigra”, “Grad Korcula”, “Korčula”, and “Mint of Corcyra Nigra”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral of St. Mark and Our Lady of Angels.

Church
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The also called Korčula Cathedral, is the church in Korčula, . It occupies an elevated position in the town centre.

Monastery
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Our Lady of the Angel is a monastery near , a town on the peninsula, in the , . The monastery was built at the end of the 15th century under the Republic of Ragusa, to which the town of belonged between 1333 and 1806.

Islet
Photo: Ante Pletikosić, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an islet.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Korčula and Orebić.

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is an island in the Adriatic Sea, in Southern , near . According to some sources, Marco Polo may have been born here.

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is a port town of 3,700 people in . Tourism is one of the town's main sources of income, especially during the summer months. The town's main beach is at Trstenica.

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is a village and a municipality located on the eastern tip of the island of in , seven kilometers away from the town of Korčula.

Town of Korčula

Latitude
42.9607° or 42° 57′ 38″ north
Longitude
17.1355° or 17° 8′ 8″ east
Population
2,660
Elevation
55 metres (180 feet)
Open location code
8FJVX46P+76
Open­Street­Map ID
node 311292989
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3197709
Wiki­data ID
Q13289
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Town of Korčula” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Korçula”
  • Arabic: “كورتشولا”
  • Arabic: “كوركولا”
  • Armenian: “Կորչուլա”
  • Asturian: “Korčula”
  • Belarusian: “Корчула”
  • Bosnian: “Korčula”
  • Breton: “Korčula”
  • Bulgarian: “Корчула”
  • Catalan: “Korčula”
  • Cebuano: “Korčula”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆرچولا”
  • Chinese: “科尔丘拉”
  • Chinese: “科爾丘拉”
  • Croatian: “Grad Korčula”
  • Croatian: “Korčula”
  • Czech: “Korčula”
  • Danish: “Korčula”
  • Dutch: “Korčula”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوركولا”
  • Estonian: “Korčula”
  • Finnish: “Korčula”
  • French: “Korčula”
  • German: “Corcyra Nigra”
  • German: “Korcula”
  • German: “Korčula”
  • German: “Korkyra Melaina”
  • Greek: “Κόρτσουλα”
  • Hungarian: “Korčula”
  • Indonesian: “Korčula”
  • Italian: “Curzola”
  • Japanese: “コルチュラ”
  • Korean: “코르출라”
  • Latin: “Cursola”
  • Lombard: “Curzola (cità)”
  • Lombard: “Curzola”
  • Macedonian: “Корчула (град)”
  • Macedonian: “Корчула”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Korčula”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Korčula kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Korčula”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Korčula”
  • Persian: “كرچولا”
  • Persian: “کرچولا”
  • Polish: “Korčula”
  • Russian: “Корчула”
  • Serbian: “Корчула”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Korčula”
  • Sicilian: “Curzola”
  • Sindhi: “ڪورچولا (شھر)”
  • Sindhi: “ڪورچولا”
  • Slovak: “Korčula”
  • Slovenian: “Korčula”
  • Spanish: “Corsula”
  • Spanish: “Corzula”
  • Spanish: “Cursola”
  • Spanish: “Curzola”
  • Spanish: “Korčula”
  • Swedish: “Korčula”
  • Tatar: “Корчула”
  • Turkish: “Curzola”
  • Turkish: “Korçoli”
  • Turkish: “Korcula”
  • Turkish: “Korčula”
  • Turkish: “Korçula”
  • Turkish: “Korşol”
  • Ukrainian: “Корчула”
  • Venetian: “Curzoła”
  • Vietnamese: “Korčula”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Korčula”
  • Welsh: “Korčula”
  • Yue Chinese: “科爾丘拉”
  • “Korčula”

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