Basic facts about Island Krk

Island Krk is the northernmost island in the Mediterranean and is located in the Kvarner Bay. Island Krk is also the largest island in the Adriatic with area of 409.9 km2. Around the island is about twenty islands, islets and reefs. Island Krk is the most populated island in Croatia, there are a total of 68 living areas on the island with about 18.000 inhabitants.
The average summer temperature is, 23 C, mean sea temperature in the period from June to September 20 C.

History about Island Krk

The first data colonization on island are associated with the Illyrian tribe Japoden and Liburnian.
Traces of Roman lead to the end of the old era and the first century AD.
But already at the end of 6th century, the Croats began to settle on the island, and become an absolute majority of the population.
On the island of Krk Christianity arrived vera early already in the 5th c. n. e. formed diocese and with the center of the city of Krk and the first known Bishop is Andrew (680). The Croats settled in families by castles and therefore today the island has four distinct dialects.
At the end of the 12 th century emerge from these genera famous Dukes of Krk Frankopani.
This is the only family on the Adriatic islands, which are to be developed in the European-scale originating from Vrbnika, and their estates were spread on the land: Trsat, Copper, Kraljevica, Crikvenica, Novi Vinodolski and Otocac, Brinje etc. so Frankopani at the peak of his powers possessed territory equal to half of today's Croatia.

Some of the princes of this family were the Croatian bans. The first known Frankopan was Dujam the first (1118.) and the last Fran Krsto which gave a kill 1671st Emperor and King Leopold of Habsburg.
The island of Krk has fallen into the hands of Venice in 1480th as the last island in the Adriatic Sea, when by fraud duke Ivan Frankopan was taken prisoner in the Venetia.
After the fall of the Croatian princes Frankopan, in 15th century, Krk changed many rulers from Venetian over the French, Austro - Hungary, Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia, and finally, after five centuries, the island of Krk is again an integral part of the Croatian corpus.