Where is the island of Brac?
Brač is located in the south of the Croatian Adriatic and is part of the Dalmatian archipelago. It is separated from neighboring islands and the mainland by sea channels. Along the entire coastline of the island - 175 km long - there are resort towns and small villages. The population of the island of Brac is about 14 thousand people. The locals are engaged in tourism, grape growing, fishing, mining and processing of Brac stone.
The national currency is Croatian kuna (HRK).
History of the island of Brac
The territory of modern Brac has been inhabited since Neolithic times. The first settlements here were made by the ancient Greeks (around the 4th century BC). Later, the island of Brac came under the control of the Romans, who established port towns and farms here. The island was then occupied by Slavic tribes, and in the 14th century it was ceded to the Kingdom of Hungary. In the 1420s, the Venetians reclaimed the tidbit of land in the sea, and after the fall of the Venetian Republic, Brac fell to the Austrians.
In the early twentieth century, the island was briefly occupied by the Italians, but at the end of World War I it was annexed to Yugoslavia. When the latter broke up, Brac became part of Croatia.
