Croatia
Zadar County
Municipality of Preko

Preko

Preko is a village and a municipality in , . It is situated, as the name suggests, opposite of , on the island of , in northern .
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  • Type: Village with 1,250 residents
  • Description: municipality and settlement in Zadar County, Croatia
  • Also known as: “Preko (Chorvatsko)”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Galovac and Ošljak.

Islet
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is an islet.

Island
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is a Croatian in the Adriatic Sea. Its total area is 0.3 km2 and it lies just off the coast between and the island of .

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Fort St. Michael is a fortress on the island of , in northern , Croatia. It was initially built by the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century, and rebuilt by the Republic of Venice in 1202, during the Fourth Crusade. is situated 2½ km southwest of Preko.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ošljak, Preko and Sutomišćica.

Village
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is a village.

Village
is a village in , on the eastern side of the island of in the region of . , which was already inhabited in ancient times, is situated in a beautiful bay of the same name, about 3 km from Preko.

Village
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is a village and the only settlement in the eponymous municipality in on in . In the 2011 census, there were 1,638 inhabitants, 99.39% of whom were Croats. is situated 2½ km southeast of Preko.

Preko

Latitude
44.08126° or 44° 4′ 53″ north
Longitude
15.18765° or 15° 11′ 16″ east
Population
1,250
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Open location code
8FPQ35JQ+G3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 536515562
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3215759
Wiki­data ID
Q1269873
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Waray—“Preko” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Preko”
  • Bosnian: “Preko”
  • Cebuano: “Preko”
  • Chinese: “佩勒科”
  • Croatian: “Preko”
  • Czech: “Preko (Chorvatsko)”
  • Czech: “Preko”
  • Dutch: “Preko”
  • French: “Preko”
  • German: “Preko (Chorvatsko)”
  • German: “Preko”
  • Hungarian: “Preko”
  • Italian: “Oltre”
  • Latin: “Ultra”
  • Lombard: “Oltre (Croazzia)”
  • Lombard: “Oltre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Preko”
  • Polish: “Gmina Preko”
  • Portuguese: “Preko”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Preko, Zadar”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Preko”
  • Russian: “Преко”
  • Serbian: “Preko”
  • Serbian: “Преко”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Preko”
  • Slovak: “Preko”
  • Slovenian: “Preko”
  • Spanish: “Preko”
  • Swedish: “Preko”
  • Turkish: “Oltre”
  • Turkish: “Preko”
  • Ukrainian: “Преко”
  • Venetian: “Oltre (Croasia)”
  • Venetian: “Oltre”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Preko”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Preko”. Photo: Andres rus, CC BY-SA 3.0.