Žejane

Village in Primorje-Gorski Kotar, Croatia

Žejane (Istro Romanian: Jeiăn; Italian: Seiane) is a village in the eastern part of the mountainous Ćićarija area in Istria, in western Croatia. Administratively it belongs to the municipality of Matulji in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. In 2011, the population of Žejane was 130.^[3]

Description

The village is 18 km north-west of Matulji, near the municipality road leading from Vele Mune and Male Mune to Opatija and Rijeka, in a karst valley between two mountain ridges.

The village is known for the Ćići: Istro-Romanians who settled here in the late 15th, or early 16th century from 1510 until 1525, when the villages Vele Mune, Male Mune, and Žejane were settled by Krsto Frankopan.^[4][5]

Demography

Citations

1. Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata Q119585703.
2. "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
3. Census 2011.
4. Ribarić 2002, pp. 79, 78.
5. Ribarić 2002, p. 61.
6. Bureau of Statistics n.d.

Bibliography

• "Naselja i stanovništvo Republike Hrvatske 1857-2001" [Settlements and population of the Republic of Croatia] (in Croatian). Croatian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
• Ribarić, Josip (2002). O istarskim dijalektima: razmještaj južnoslavenskih dijalekata na poluotoku Istri s opisom vodičkog govora (in Croatian). Pazin: Josip Turčinović.
• "Stanovništvo prema starosti i spolu po naseljima, popisi 2011" (in Croatian). Croatian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
• Zbornik općine Lanišće [Anthology of Lanišče municipality, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012] (in Croatian). Pazin: Josip Turčinović.
• "Žejane". Istrian Encyclopedia. 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2022.

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