Raduč


Raduč is a village in the Lika-Senj County, Croatia. The settlement is administered as a part of Lovinac municipality.
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Location

It is located in Lika, 25 kilometers from Gračac, on the state road D50.

Population/Demographics

According to national census of 2011, population of the settlement is 12.
YearPopulation
18571310
1869850
1880875
18901015
19001110
19101081
1921945
1931909
1948729
1953704
1961724
1971523
1981407
1991336
200111
201112

Notable people

It is miss understood that the family of the great Nikola Tesla is from Smiljan, Austro-Hungary, later Yugoslavia. Tesla's family are from the village of Raduč, Lika. The reason Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan instead of Raduč, is because his father Milutin, a Serbian-Orthodox priest was on duty in Smiljan, where the Serbian-Orthodox church was his responsibility. The house next to the church was given to him, while he was serving in Smiljan, which is why Nikola Tesla was born there and not in Raduč.
Due to the ethnic cleansing of Serbs from today's Croatia carried out in the 90s there are almost no people left in the village. However, Milka Tesla, still lives in Raduč.